Garrett Gappa is a career logistics operator pivoting into the new space economy. Sidereal Logistics is built on a specific conviction: the next phase of commercial space is a coordination problem, not an engineering problem — and operational expertise imported from adjacent industries is exactly what the market needs.
The first generation of commercial space companies solved the hardest technical problem: getting there. Launch cadence is up, rideshare capacity is expanding across providers, and the cost-per-kilogram curve is on a steady downward trajectory.
What remains is different in kind. Small operators cannot navigate the regulatory maze. Payloads arrive unintegrated to vehicles that had different specs. Documentation lags compliance deadlines. Universities are priced out of missions they should be able to afford. The industry is moving faster than its coordination layer.
Every logistics industry passes through the same arc: fragmented → brokered → platformed. Ocean freight, air cargo, trucking, warehousing — each was once a patchwork of direct relationships before aggregators, brokers, and platform operators built the coordination infrastructure that enabled scale. Space logistics is mid-arc right now. Sidereal exists to be the operational layer that arc requires.
Sidereal is not a reach for Garrett. It is a direct application of a logistics career — ocean, air, ground, warehousing, and enterprise stakeholder coordination — into a market where those exact disciplines are in short supply. The parallels are not metaphor. They are the job description.
I didn’t come to space from aerospace. I came to it from logistics.
I’ve spent my career in freight and operations — ocean, air, ground, warehousing — working with global enterprise customers whose only real questions were can you move this, by when, and for how much. The technology under the hood was never the point. The coordination was. That’s where my operational instincts were built, and that’s the lens I bring to everything I do.
For years, I’ve watched the commercial space industry mature from a pure engineering arena into something much closer to what I know. Rideshare opportunities are expanding. Launch cadence is rising. The hard part — getting there — is being solved in real time by extraordinary people. What’s emerging behind them is a different kind of problem: small operators who can’t navigate the regulatory maze, universities priced out of missions they should reach, payloads that don’t match the vehicles they were manifested for, and compliance documentation that never moves as fast as the integration clock.
That’s a logistics problem. And it is the problem I’ve been training for my entire career, just in a different medium.
Sidereal Logistics exists because every maturing industry eventually needs operators, not just engineers. It needs the coordination layer that turns a fragmented market into a reliable one. It needs brokers who speak the customer’s language and the provider’s language and the regulator’s language all at the same time. That’s the role I’m building Sidereal to play — and I believe the market is telling us, very clearly, that the seat is open.
The name is not arbitrary. Sidereal is a real term from orbital mechanics — it describes time and position measured relative to the fixed stars rather than the sun. A sidereal day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds: the true rotational period of Earth, used by every mission planner and ground station operator working in space today. It is the fixed reference frame that the entire industry navigates by. That is exactly what this company is built to be — a fixed reference in a volatile environment. Reliable, precise, and oriented by something that doesn't move.
I am not an engineer. That is the point. Sidereal is built on the belief that the next phase of commercial space needs operational DNA from industries that have already solved coordination problems at scale, and that this moment — more than any previous moment in the history of the space economy — is the one where that belief actually pays off.
If that thesis resonates with you — whether you’re a university program lead, a commercial operator, a potential partner, or an investor looking at this space — I want to hear from you.
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