Matt Gialich
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Right on.
Will you be able to reuse these or rebuild them?
Absolutely not.
I know we have no plans to reuse them.
I mean, we're going to crash land them, right?
Like keeping them light, keeping them cheap is pretty important to us at this point in time.
And the economic use case for satellites at that scale that can be reusable is extremely difficult to make work, I think, if not impossible.
I think when you start looking at Starship level reusability and these kind of massive structures, sure, you can talk about massive reusability when you're putting a lot of capex into one of these projects.
The reality is, man, I'm not Elon Musk.
I don't have, you know, $50 billion behind me I can just dump into one of these.
I have to think really economical at the beginning.
And, like, part of this is having the economic constraint as well.
If we had unlimited money, we know how to mine an asteroid.
It's called Osiris-Rex.
It costs $1.2 billion.
You know, it's really easy to iterate to that works, that's a solution.
It's not an economical business though.
We have to think cheap.
We have to think light.
And we have to make those trades all the time of like cost is in every trade study we do.