Scott Nolan

So, you know, we need a few years for Starship to really start doing high volume commercial launches.

And then we need a few components in that overall architecture to probably come down in cost.

to let those use cases make sense.

But it could be anything from beaming power to like a forward deployed unit that needs to be somewhere really remote and still have the ability to power things, beaming light onto an area, similar applications, or doing things like, hey, how can we redirect energy for industrial use affordably, where maybe it makes the difference between that industrial process working or not working based on the energy cost there.

So I think we're seeing it on the solar side.

On the nuclear side, I actually don't know what the US is working on there or what's planned.

And I would think that that would probably be under a DoD program that would be compartmentalized if that was the case.

But yeah, it sounds like China is doing things.

And that has a lot of implications.

So you were at SpaceX when there was only 30 employees?

Yeah, 35, somewhere around 35.

Yeah, it was cool.

How was that?

It was fun.

You know, I think when you're in the middle of these things,

You don't really understand the gravity of it or the implications of it.

Back to 2002, the US had something like 20% of global launch capacity.

Today, based on everything SpaceX has done, over 23 years.

People forget that.

It's been 23 years.