Steve Wozniak's Space Company Wants to Be a 'Ride Share' for Satellites

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Privateer is introducing an online marketplace for customers to share the cost of accessing satellite data.

rocket in December of this year with another Pono prototype in the works to hopefully launch next year with the intent for it to become fully operational in 2025.

“With Wayfinder as the guide and Pono as the engine, Privateer is linking ‘for space’ and ‘from space,’ data drivers and data users, Silicon Valley and space, and economics and sustainability in the orbital environment,” Privateer CEO Alex Fielding said in a company . “This is about refining and redefining how we, as a society, can maximize the life and utility of our satellites to enable new applications … while standardizing norms of behavior in space.”The company will use its Wayfinder app, which is a satellite tracking app that currently provides the locations of space objects and analyzes potential collisions, as the storefront for its marketplace, com.

Wozniak started Privateer with Fielding in 2021 with the goal to clean up Earth’s low orbit which is comparable to a garbage dump, containing millions of pieces of space debris including broken satellites, rock fragments, and debris from vehicle stages or space missions. But what’s more, the company always had the intention of “building … the Google Maps of space,” Fielding told

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