Jon Quast
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That's what the
press release that everyone's concerned about was.
There was a rupture of one of the tanks.
On one hand, that's not entirely unusual.
It's happened with Blue Origin.
It's happened many times with SpaceX.
The question on everybody's mind with this ruptured tank is just, how intentional was the failure?
So companies do, especially in this phase of the game, they do push their equipment to the limit to see where the limit is.
It's called test of failure.
And so management kind of makes it sound like, hey, we were trying to see where the limits of our
our hardware was.
On one hand, it seems pretty normal.
On the other hand, why do a press release?
The question is, is this a little bit unexpected?
Is it a failed tank?
Is it going to cause them to push back the first launch that they were planning here for the first quarter?
Investors don't like delays, and that's what's on their minds.
Well, Tyler, I absolutely love space, and I would love to own a space stock at some point.
Rocket Lab is one that's certainly on my radar.
I just think there's so many interesting things in our solar system and beyond.