Peter Beck
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But I would say that, you know, more generally, 50% of our business is commercial and 50% of our business is government.
And, you know, on the commercial side, it's Earth observation and communications.
And then on the government side, it's national security missions and then also civil stuff.
So, you know, we built a couple of spacecraft just recently and they're on their way to Mars for NASA.
So all sorts of interesting things.
Maybe we start a little bit higher up in the fact that space is just infrastructure, really.
And it's slightly unusual infrastructure in the fact that it's completely hidden.
And, you know, you often talk to folks and, you know, they'll say, well, this space stuff, you know, it's all sci-fi.
And then, you know, they'll go home and order a pizza and the pizza turns up at their house magically.
And, you know, they don't realize that in ordering that pizza, they may have interfaced with, you know, with space to make their communication.
But certainly they've kind of interfaced with space because the guy delivering their pizza has used GPS to get there.
And so there's a whole bunch of infrastructure in orbit, whether it be GPS or communications or observations that everybody uses in their everyday lives, but just sort of doesn't realize it.
And I think if you want to break it down into the most simplest forms, you have Earth observation,
And that can cover all different spectrums, whether it's visible light or non-visible light or RF.
And for mom and dad at home, that's like weather.
So how do I get satellite weather?
And then communications, GPS falls under that.