Matt Gialich

The asteroid belt, which is 300 million miles away from the Earth, give or take,

It takes a lot longer.

Those missions would be 14, 15-year missions to go out and mine a main belt asteroid and come back.

How long does it take you to get a million miles away?

We want to do all our missions in less than two years.

It's what allows us to keep the spacecraft cheap, small, higher risk.

Radiation's a bitch in space.

You just get blasted by the sun.

And things like solar flares happen, we just wave bye to our spacecraft as it gets destroyed.

So limiting the amount of time you're actually in that environment is pretty key to having a much more higher reliability spacecraft.

So it would take two years, and your next launch is when?

The max we look at is two years.

Some of these missions take much less, but again,

Because we are not dedicated launch, like every interplanetary mission has been dedicated launch.

This means they're on a rocket.

They control exactly when that rocket takes off.

And if they want to go to Jupiter, like you point the rocket at Jupiter and go to Jupiter.

We don't get that option.

We're going on a ride share to the moon when the people that want to land on the moon decide to hit go.

And so for us, we have to be really open to what asteroid we go to on any given time.