Scott Nolan

So let's bring launch costs down.

And that means we can't use the same technology we've been using.

We can't do that with the space shuttle.

The space shuttle has been running.

This was the mindset at the time.

Spatial has been running for over a decade and we see what those costs are.

It averages out to like a billion dollars per launch.

That's not going to work.

We have to start over and we're just going to question everything.

So some of the principles that we had there were, you know, it all started with a mission, a very, very clear mission.

We're going to optimize on dollars to get a kilo or a pound of payload into an orbit.

That's it.

Don't care how we do it, that's what we're doing, bringing the cost down.

And so that meant we have one goal and we're just going to rethink everything to get there.

We're going to rethink what our engine technology is.

We're going to just go with the simplest, lowest cost, reliable engine we possibly can.

And so instead of going with a more exotic engine type that some people talked about at the time,

we said we're gonna go with a really proven one.

This thing is not even gonna be that efficient, but it's gonna be so low cost that instead of one exquisite engine on the bottom of this rocket, we're gonna have nine.

We're gonna have nine really low cost ones.