Matt Gialich

It's not like I can throw a satellite into space, I still gotta be able to launch the satellite.

And so one of the biggest reasons Astroforge is allowed to exist is actually because of that same organization, NASA.

NASA does this thing called the Eclipse missions.

These are the lunar landers you've probably seen.

So I don't know if you've watched the intuitive machine landers or the firefly landers go land on the moon.

And we hitch rides on those rockets for a fraction of the cost, right?

We no longer have to buy an entire dedicated launch to go out to the cosmos.

And so for the first time, you can build a low-cost spacecraft, but also have low-cost launch.

Those two things have never aligned before to go do it.

And so now I can go access the universe at orders of magnitude cheaper than anybody's been able to in history.

And then the question became,

What do you do?

Like, I can't go raise money from a venture capitalist.

Like, hey, I'm going to go YOLO something to the universe and like explore it.

They're like, cool, cool.

There's no, what is that supposed to mean?

And so, you know, what I first did was I sat down and I wrote this whole list of like, if I can now see this inflection point where I could access deep space for much cheaper, right?

Under $10 million, including the launch.

What could I do?

And I had all these stupid ass ideas.