Morton: SpaceX Had to Build Control Infrastructure From Scratch
Scott Morton · Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Feb 26, 2026 · at 4:26
Scott Morton, Founder & CEO of Revel and former SpaceX engineer, discusses the outdated state of legacy hardware control software when he worked at SpaceX.
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“At SpaceX, we ended up actually having to build all the infrastructure from scratch to actually have something that was modern and that and that also really helped us be more successful.”
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