Tim Dodd
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I want us to move more towards that fixed price.
That'll open up the commercial environment.
And we've seen how that works.
And so far, for some people, it's gone really, really well.
Whenever I go to the East Coast for a couple of days, like for a surf trip or whatever, I'm always just stunned by how many launches there are at Kennedy Space Center.
It'd be like, just like rain, like you never even hear of them.
It's just like, oh, there's a rocket going off today at 8 p.m.
or whatever time it is.
And it's like, what's this one for?
And it just seems like just a routine everyday thing.
It's become extremely routine now.
And I can't imagine how many freaking satellites they have up there right now.
It's got to look like just hornets surrounding a beehive or something like that.
Yeah, there's over 10,000, I think there's 11,300 or something active satellites right now.
And that goes up by about, it goes up by about 50 every week at this rate.
Well, that's the beautiful thing about spaceflight is it's actually predictable.
There's no disturbances that are going to alter the trajectory of a thing.
It's in an orbit.
You can predict it for the next six months.
Because there's no wind.