Jeff Thornburg

But anyway, so with supernova, it's about propulsion, but it's about payload flexibility.

So what that means is...

Software-definable power, which means you have a payload, you have a camera, you have a robot arm, you have whatever you want to do, whatever mission.

It's like a Lego brick onto the front of the payload deck.

Perform your mission.

I'm selling, I'll get you there as fast as you need to be.

and I'll give you a platform that's very versatile over multiple years.

Well, from a spacecraft standpoint, yes.

So I am going to build you the spacecraft and whatever you need on that spacecraft to perform a mission, whether that's a camera or a telescope or whatever, I can supply power and data to that.

Because that's one of the biggest problems with satellites right now is everything's bespoke.

So you want to have a telecom satellite.

Oh, I'm going to build the whole thing, including the telecom payload.

Yeah.

And if your customers don't show up and want it, then your business fails.

I can't predict everything the customer needs, so I didn't want to try.

I just wanted to give them a spacecraft that could meet all their needs.

I think two things.

If I was king of American engineering for a day, for space, I'd accelerate AI and machine learning and get more robots and AI out there doing the heavy lifting for us.

But I think you could...

But let me tell you why I said that.