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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: 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: 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 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.”