Everything Andy Lapsa said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lapsa: Stoke Space Cuts Hardware Iteration Cycles to 1-2 Days
“We'll go learn something on a test stand, tear it down, drive it back here, pull it apart, run a change in the machine shop, drive it back out there, integrate on the test stand, and we're off and going. So a one month cycle is down to a day or two.”
Lapsa: Stoke Space is building fully reusable rockets with aircraft-like turnaround
“Stoke is building fully and rapidly reusable rockets with aircraft-like reusability.”
Lapsa: Starlink launch dominance and constrained capacity restrict the space economy
“With only a 150 potential transactions, and most of them getting taken up by Starlink, there's just not that much availability, and so there are customers who are willing to pay quite a bit more to get the availability, but to make the space economy more ubiqu…”
Lapsa: Nova's first stage uses one of history's most fuel-efficient rocket engines
“It has one of the highest performing rocket engines in terms of fuel efficiency that's ever been produced.”
Lapsa: Stoke Space has raised about $990M to date
“We've raised about nine hundred ninety million dollars to date.”
Lapsa: Stoke Space Aims to Make Every Rocket Part In-House
“We want the ability to make every part on the rocket ourselves.”
Lapsa: Stoke Space built proprietary software Boltline to run factory operations
“So we made the decision very early on. We're going to build our own tool to do all this. We're going to base our operations around it and call it bolt line. And it's been a big part of our success”
Lapsa: First-stage reusability scaled annual launch capacity from 20 to 150
“In the last few years, the industry has shown the ability to reuse the first stage, which has been transformative. It allowed companies to scale from maybe a dozen or so, 10 to 20 launches per year, now to that 150 number.”
Lapsa: Rapid reusability scales flight frequency without expanding factory infrastructure
“What rapid reusability allows you to do is to scale the flight frequency without having to scale your factories and your test facilities and all of the infrastructure that comes with it.”
Lapsa: Stoke Space factory can build about seven vehicles per year
“The facility is designed to build about seven vehicles per year.”
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