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Beck: SolAero, Sinclair, and PSC had zero in-orbit failures prior to acquisition
“Like, you know, Solero Solar, never had a solar panel fail in orbit in 40 years. Doug Sinclair and reaction wheels, same again. PSC, never had a failure, separation system failure.”
Asparouhov: Khosla is the only equity owner in OpenAI besides Microsoft
“Mattershund being the largest, you know, sort of investor
You know, in SpaceX, Coastal Ventures being the largest investor in Rocket Lab, and then in some ways more recently, you know, the only equity owner in OpenAI other than Microsoft.”
Beck: Rocket Lab produces one Rutherford engine daily; over 930 flown
“There's one engine made and shipped out every day. So, you know, there's over 930 engines that have been to space.”
Beck: Rocket Lab bought Virgin Orbit's $100M facility for $16M
“That was the old Virgin Orbit facility, and you know, there was over a hundred million dollars worth of asset in that building, And we managed to buy the whole thing for sixteen million dollars.”
Beck: Rocket Lab is prime contractor on two national security programs
“We're prime on two national security programs right now.”
Beck: Rocket Lab Added Nearly $1B in Backlog in Record Quarter
“Well, I mean, we, you know, pretty much put nearly a billion dollars of backlog you know, in the books had record revenue and you know, a whole bunch of growth everywhere, and acquisitions, and yeah,”
Beck: Rocket Lab Executed Space Force Rapid Call-Up Launch in Under 17 Hours
“We recently did their launch for the Space Force, the rapid call-up launch, and they gave us 24 hours to Call, you know, integrate a satellite into a rocket, push it out to the pad and launch. You know, we did it in 16 hours and 42 minutes.”
Beck: Electron is the world's second most launched rocket behind Falcon 9
“It's the second most frequently launched rocket in the world, ah, behind the Falcon nine.”
Beck: Rocket Lab was first Southern Hemisphere private firm in space
“In 2009, we launched our first suborbital rocket called Aotearoa. And we were the first private company in the Southern hemisphere to reach space. Not all, but just into space.”
Beck: Rocket Lab is building NASA's LOXSAT to test cryogenic storage in orbit
“This is a project we're doing for NASA called LOCKSAT, so that big, like, Christmas bauble on the top is actually a sphere full of liquid oxygen, so we're helping NASA figure out how to store liquid oxygen on orbit for very long periods of time, which is super…”
Beck: CAPSTONE proved stability of NASA's Lunar Gateway orbit
“That, that mission was actually the very first part of the Artemis program, so we went into a really weird orbit that the, you know, the gateway mission was going to go into to prove that that orbit was stable, so it was it was a crazy, crazy mission.”
Beck: Rocket Lab Designs and Makes Everything in Electron In-House
“Well, it doesn't feel like anything's changed because if you take our first real product being the Electron launch vehicle, everything in that launch vehicle we design and we make. So every engine, every avionics box, every piece of software.”