Matthew Gialich

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Thinking On Paper · Mining Asteroids For Platinum | Matthew Gialich, CEO Astroforge · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

It's called Osiris Rex.

We also know Osiris Rex costs $1.2 billion.

So if we're gonna follow that same playbook, I have to figure out how to raise $1.2 billion for a spacecraft.

Sorry guys, I'm not that good.

Like what I'm going to do instead is challenge every ideal we have.

And so when you look at solar panels, for instance, you kind of have these two camps.

You have the triple junction, really high efficiency cells that you put glass over and you mount on really rigid frames.

So when they take off the glass doesn't crack.

Or you go to these, you know, there's quite a few companies making these like rollout style thin film solar panels, but those are going to be somewhere on the 14 to 20% efficiency, depending on what numbers you believe and who you use.

Well, the rollouts at the size we are actually are less mass effective than just building flat panels.

But when you build flask panels with glass, the glass actually weighs a lot of material.

So what do we do instead?

Well, we got the panels created in on a film.

So they're thin film gallium austenite triple junction solar panels.

They're about 33% effective.

And then we don't mount them on a rigid substrate.

They're on a board that has a whole bunch of flex to it.

And by having all that flex, it allows you to do things like when you open your panel.

Like think about this.

When you slam your door, why is it so loud?

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