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Capsule reacquired comes at eight minutes, Lauren.
Right.
I mean, as you mentioned before, passengers pay some undisclosed sum to fly on these flights.
But, yes, I mean, Blue Origin is by far a very big passion of Jeff Bezos, and he has been primarily the funder of the endeavor for some time now.
Obviously, the goal is to move away from that system, to have more and more customers, and to eventually become a profitable business.
Either that's through satellite contracts, launch contracts, things like that.
Lauren, we just saw the drogue chutes and then the main chutes deploy on the New Shepard capsule on its way down.
Now it's chill.
You're just floating.
And by the time you boost the landing speed like six miles per hour.
So we will wait for that over the course of the next two minutes to ensure that the capsule lands safely.
You just talked about the business of constellation-based satellite.
We talked earlier in the conversation about Blue Origin's efforts, that news last night.
We also are trying to keep on top of Elon Musk's appearance at Davos, which you and I were both tuned in for, right?
He did talk about Starship and some of the broader kind of academic questions around space-based data center.
As best you can, just give us a summary of that while we await the Blue Origin capsule touching down.
Sure.
So as Elon indicated, he's a very big fan of solar power.
One of the justifications for moving data centers into space is depending on where you put them, you can have this constant access to solar power, which as people who know much about AI and the data center industry here on Earth,
Power constraints can actually be a huge limiting factor.