Eric Romo
President & COO, Impulse Space. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Eric Romo is the President and COO of Impulse Space. Previously an early propulsion engineer at SpaceX, he founded AltspaceVR and GreenVolts before serving as a Director at Facebook Reality Labs.
1shows
1appearances
20statements
7resolved
5supported
1contradicted
71%fully supported
4said about them ↓ Everything Eric Romo said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Romo: Space debris remediation startups are largely a scam today
“It's a scam, I think, largely. So look the orbital remediation could be a problem one day. It is not currently a problem, and I think there are there are studies you can point to on this around, like, what's the probability of collision, and what challenge cou…”
Romo: Commercial LEO space tug market is dead on arrival
“So when you stack those things together, you know, dubious economics, small market, and bad working capital dynamics, it just didn't really pencil. So here we are, we just launched this first Mira, and we thought that had this commercial market, we kind of rea…”
Romo: Mira's true market fit is a Space Force fighter jet, not a space tug
“The practical reality is that the product market fit for MIRA, for a high thrust, high Delta V space vehicle, Is it's closer to a fighter jet than a tugboat. This is a thing that the, what Space Force wants to do with this is move really fast at some foreign a…”
Romo: Moving fast in hardware requires insourcing component development
“If you want to move quickly, you absolutely must insource a lot of the development. You must build your own components. You must take as much internally as you can”
Romo: Helios Reaches GEO in Eight Hours Cheaper Than Falcon Heavy
“Helios gets them to their same, same place they want to go the same day to launch eight hours later. And it's cheaper than a Falcon Heavy, more expensive than Falcon Nine, obviously, because they need to play for, pay for that and the Helios”
Romo: Satellite life extension will never be useful in LEO
“There are some companies that are working on life extension. That's useful in GEO, where satellites are really expensive, and so therefore we should extend their life a little bit. Never gonna be useful in LEO. It's not a, LEO, just replace it. It's easy to ge…”
Romo: Deep tech costs are driven far more by talent than capex
“I think there's this perception, you know, outside of hard tech, deep tech, whatever you want to call the segment we're in, that they're incredibly capital intensive, and you can't imagine how much they're spending on capex, but that's not really the case. I m…”
Romo: GEO Communications Satellite Market Has Been Flat to Down for 10 Years
“The Geo ComSat market, you just look at the data, it's kind of flat to down in the last 10 years. It's not grown heavily.”
Romo: China is funding five companies to duplicate SpaceX's launch capacity
“China now has consistent access to space, and has a massive program to essentially duplicate our launch capacity. They've got, you know, five different companies trying to be SpaceX over there that they're throwing lots and lots of money at.”
Romo: Space Force budget request has grown to $71 billion
“And this is part of why you see Space Force's budget going from seventeen billion dollars a few years ago to now the request is for seventy one billion dollars.”
Romo: MEO and GEO defense requires rapid spacecraft mobility, not proliferation
“The problem is that when you look at the volume of LEO compared to the volume between LEO and GEO MEO and GEO are a million times better, literally a million times bigger than LEO. So if you're going to have that same strategy of proliferation of, hey, there's…”
Romo: Single-Point Engineering Accountability Outperforms Diffused Systems Approaches
“So you know, who is the person that's ultimately accountable for the success of this part, or this vehicle, or this process, and we want people to be that single point of accountability. Whereas other companies takes more of a, this systems approach where it's…”
Romo: 137 Ventures and Banner VC led Impulse Space's funding round
“In particular we had, the firms that led the round are One through Seven Ventures and Banner VC.”
Romo: 137 Ventures holds over 1% of SpaceX
“That's a real big endorsement coming from somebody who runs more than one percent of SpaceX.”
Romo: Impulse's Helios stage is roughly the size of Falcon 1's second stage
“We've got our Helios program which is the build effectively at the third stage for medium launch vehicles. That's building a rocket stage. You know, it's like, it's roughly the same size as like the second stage of Falcon one, for example, like as a size of th…”
Romo: Impulse Space is scaling Mira production to one vehicle per month
“We've got our Mira product line, which is now scaling to where we have to build one of those per month at this point.”
Romo: Impulse Space built its first Mira spacecraft in 14 months
“When I got here, the company had been working on the Mira vehicle for a little while, and it had, Mira went from not existing to being built and ready to fly in about 14 months, so really, really fast, which is testament to Tom and the talent the team had.”
Romo: Falcon Heavy costs $70M to $80M more than Falcon 9
“When you look at, like, the difference between a Falcon nine and a Falcon Heavy, it's like 70, eighty million dollars, something like that historically.”
Romo: Tom Mueller was employee 001 in SpaceX's payroll system
“Tom, Tom was officially in the payroll system the first. Employee zero zero one.”
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