Peter Beck

probably, you know, I'm sitting down here in New Zealand now, you're somewhere else around the world, and there's probably some of that link is done through space.

So, you know, communications is obviously a huge element.

But what I would say is that

You know, the biggest thing to be thought of and done in space, I believe, hasn't even been thought of yet.

And if you just roll the clock back a couple of years and someone said that you're going to put data centers in orbit, I think most people would say, well, that doesn't sound feasible.

But yet, you know, there's a huge push there.

And then you go back a few more years and you would say, well, you know, internet from space in the form of like a Starlink or an Amazon Leo would be, you know,

fictitious and then now it's like everybody's using that.

Same with direct-to-mobile devices from space.

So, you know, it's constantly redefining itself and as more use cases arrive, then, you know, that's one of the reasons why the space industry is just growing so rapidly.

Well, I think the answer to that is that space has been dominated by governments and government sectors.

And what you've witnessed in the last sort of decade, I would say, is the complete democratisation of space.

So let's just use the GPS example.

So, you know, all those GPS satellites currently up in orbit are government assets, right?

I mean, they were originally designed as defence assets.

Now, I think if you were to take all of those assets out of the sky and start afresh, it wouldn't be governments putting them back up.

It would 100% be commercial entities putting them back up.

And I'll just give you another example, you know, of our escapade mission to Mars for NASA.

So, you know, those are spacecraft.

NASA gave us a spec and said, look, we want to do this at Mars.