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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lapsa: Stoke Space Cuts Hardware Iteration Cycles to 1-2 Days
“We'll go learn something on a test stand, tear it down, drive it back here, pull it apart, run a change in the machine shop, drive it back out there, integrate on the test stand, and we're off and going. So a one month cycle is down to a day or two.”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 12:13 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Feldman: Stoke Space will fly rockets daily if successful
“If we are successful, we are flying this thing every day.”
Tom Feldman Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 15:05 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Lapsa: Stoke Space built proprietary software Boltline to run factory operations
“So we made the decision very early on. We're going to build our own tool to do all this. We're going to base our operations around it and call it bolt line. And it's been a big part of our success”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 13:47 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Assertion Partly supported
Lapsa: Nova's first stage uses one of history's most fuel-efficient rocket engines
“It has one of the highest performing rocket engines in terms of fuel efficiency that's ever been produced.”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 2:22 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Lapsa: Stoke Space has raised about $990M to date
“We've raised about nine hundred ninety million dollars to date.”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 10:12 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lapsa: Starlink launch dominance and constrained capacity restrict the space economy
“With only a 150 potential transactions, and most of them getting taken up by Starlink, there's just not that much availability, and so there are customers who are willing to pay quite a bit more to get the availability, but to make the space economy more ubiqu…”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 1:42 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Lapsa: Stoke Space Aims to Make Every Rocket Part In-House
“We want the ability to make every part on the rocket ourselves.”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 11:56 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feldman: No Rocket Companies Were Rigorously Tackling Full Reusability in 2019
“There is this problem, you know, people are still throwing away rockets. And like, we really didn't see anybody actively working super hard to like, you know, attack that problem with rigor, combined with the fact that we thought we had a pretty good idea on h…”
Tom Feldman Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 5:03 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Insight
Lapsa: Rapid reusability scales flight frequency without expanding factory infrastructure
“What rapid reusability allows you to do is to scale the flight frequency without having to scale your factories and your test facilities and all of the infrastructure that comes with it.”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 3:51 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
Assertion Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Lapsa: Stoke Space factory can build about seven vehicles per year
“The facility is designed to build about seven vehicles per year.”
Andy Lapsa Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 11:05 Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
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