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Romo: Space debris remediation startups are largely a scam today
“It's a scam, I think, largely. So look the orbital remediation could be a problem one day. It is not currently a problem, and I think there are there are studies you can point to on this around, like, what's the probability of collision, and what challenge cou…”
Romo: Commercial LEO space tug market is dead on arrival
“So when you stack those things together, you know, dubious economics, small market, and bad working capital dynamics, it just didn't really pencil. So here we are, we just launched this first Mira, and we thought that had this commercial market, we kind of rea…”
Romo: Deep tech costs are driven far more by talent than capex
“I think there's this perception, you know, outside of hard tech, deep tech, whatever you want to call the segment we're in, that they're incredibly capital intensive, and you can't imagine how much they're spending on capex, but that's not really the case. I m…”