Charter Space brings fintech to spacecraft insurance and is showing off its stuff at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
When Yuk Chi Chan set out to build Charter Space in late 2021, it was after a long stretch of pain. As a mission manager at a satellite bus startup, he coordinated the company’s first demonstration mission — and he had to do it all with critical data scattered across Microsoft Excel. In addition to managing the internal engineering operations, Chan, a former space lawyer, had to essentially repackage the same critical engineering and program data for different external audiences. “It was all the same data. It was all about the same physical object,” he told TechCrunch. “I was like, this is nuts … Why shouldn’t I be able to have some sort of unified interface, or some sort of unified data model, that actually represents this thing correctly to whoever’s looking…
