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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…”
Eric Romo Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 30:11 Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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”
Eric Romo Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 42:58 Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Eric Romo Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 33:49 Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Eric Romo Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 45:08 Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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