Ursa Major

“We have delivered engines into a couple of hypersonic programs already.”

“There are actually, there are still companies existent today that take the approach of we should three-D print everything, and We very early on made the calculated decision that, three printing is an enabler and you have to use it in the right places in the ri…”

“We didn't raise our first venture capital money until after we had fired that first engine”

“We've, on the other side of the wall of the room I'm sitting in, we've probably got 10 or 12 engines either finished, ready to ship out the door, or in some state of assembly.”

“Our first handful of employees were Former co-workers of mine from SpaceX and Blue Origin, including my boss from SpaceX and my boss from Blue Origin.”

“So we develop our own metals in house for some of our applications.”

“Really, it's the kind of dominating performance component of the rocket. It's also the highest risk, the most expensive.”

“Because our business model is to be extremely market-facing, customer-facing, and apply to a lot of missions, our requirements might be a lot more onerous than a company that's vertically integrated or building their own engines.”

“You know, I had worked at SpaceX, I was at the time working at Blue Origin, and both of those companies to me felt like first movers, and it just struck me that the next wave shouldn't be duplicating the first movers. There's got to be something added on, or s…”

“One of the first steps was actually selling all of my SpaceX stock.”