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BREAKING: Inside Rocket Lab's ( $RKLB ) Engine Development Center How Archimedes & Rutherford are made FACTORY TOUR (Part III) Sir Peter Beck walks us through Rocket Lab's engine factory in Long Beach, CA. It used to be Sir Richard Branson's $1.2B Virgin Orbit's facility. When it went bankrupt,...

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BREAKING: Inside Rocket Lab ( $RKLB ) w/ Sir Peter Beck FULL INTERVIEW (Part I) We sat down with Peter Beck Founder & CEO of Rocket Lab after another record quarter, $234M in revenue & $2.36B in backlog "The lawyers hate me saying it, but global domination is definitely part of the plan." "I didn't want to build a space company that just lives for the lifetime that I'm running it. It needed to be multi-generational." We go deeper into Iridium, Neutron, the $397M Space Force contract to build + launch "Flatellites," & how 81% of revenue last quarter was outside of launch. Covering: › Why the fix for a 9-month lead time was buying the supplier › The $8B Iridium acquisition & why he was surprised nobody saw it coming › Why the Neutron question should be about the 10th rocket, not the 1st › The 24-hour turnaround constraint that produced Hungry Hippo › Flatellites, building satellites for volume rather than one at a time Plus: building a launch industry in New Zealand from zero suppliers & no regulation, staying out of broadband to play in L-band, going public before SpaceX, GHOST & the launch site that ships in a container, & why the Archimedes engines are painted black. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Sir Peter Beck, Founder & CEO at Rocket Lab (00:59) Rocket Lab's biggest quarter (02:53) The competitive edge in Space (04:10) Rocket Lab's Acquisition Strategy (05:04) Reason behind the Iridium Deal (06:13) Competing with Blue Origin & SpaceX (09:56) Rocket Lab's Global Domination (11:19) Building a Launch Monopoly in New Zealand (12:33) Is this why Peter got Knighted? (16:42) Beating SpaceX to the Public Markets (20:05) Why Neutron is still facing delays (24:24) The reality of running a Rocket Company (27:38) Rocket Lab's latest contract wins (29:04) How defense became a prime mover for Rocket Lab (30:39) Ghost: Rocket Lab's portable launch pad (31:30) Has he seen Aliens? (33:18) What's next for Rocket Lab? (34:30) Where does Peter draw his inspiration? (36:12) Why he's never read a Business book (37:31) Why their Engine is painted black

Molly O’Shea

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Starting Rocket Lab without $100M "We knew that we could never outspend our competitors. That was just never ever going to be a thing. The reason why the Rutherford engine is named after Ernest Rutherford is because he had a very famous saying: "We have no money, so we have to think." At the start of Rocket Lab...I would go to junkyards and crawl over old machines to unscrew all of the Swagelok fittings because we couldn't afford to buy them. So the first few vehicles all used second hand fittings. That kind of hardship really cemented part of the culture at Rocket Lab. If you look across the space industry, especially amongst companies that went public, most of them are toast. If money could solve space problems then there would be a lot of success — money does not solve this problem." $RKLB

Ti Morse

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. Rocket Lab is bolstering its in-house production of satellite thrusters and lasers as demand grows for constellations. In our latest interview, CEO Peter Beck shares his thoughts on where the space industry is going and how his company is preparing to benefit. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:01 - Why Peter Beck axed his own salary 02:17 - Electric Propulsion: Introducing Gauss 05:25 - How Rocket Lab’s Special Projects team solves space industry pain points 08:47 - Mynaric acquisition: Why satellite laser communications is critical 10:55 - $RKLB ’s satellite constellation strategy 12:28 - “The biggest opportunity is yet to be thought of” 13:55 - Are space-based data centers legit? 15:16 - Hyperscaler's strategic access to orbit 17:21 - US$2 billion-plus backlog: Military v Commercial revenue mix 20:06 - NASA 's Artemis II moon mission! 21:15 - Permanent lunar base thoughts (cc. NASAMoonBase ) 22:58 - Competition for Mars missions 25:06 - The Big Rocket Race: SpaceX 's Starship, Blue Origin New Glenn & Rocket Lab’s Neutron 26:58 - Neutron 2026 launch: “We work our ass off” 28:40 - “It’s all about the economics. This is where a lot of space companies go wrong.” 29:37 - Launch cadence & reusability 31:40 - Durability of rocket hardware (does useful lifetime compress with demand, like GPUs?) 33:06 - Outro Disclaimer: I own shares in Rocket Lab. This content is of a general nature and is not intended to be personalized financial advice.

Madison Malone

283,898 views • 4 months ago

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- Stoke Space is perhaps one of the most exciting rocket companies and is one of only a few companies actually building hardware for a fully reusable rocket featuring a super unique aerospike-ish powered actively cooled upper stage, and they’re ALSO building the coveted full flow staged combustion cycle for their main engines on their reusable booster! I caught up with their CEO Andy Lapsa who gave us a rundown on their incredible rocket called NOVA and we saw some new hardware that has the possibility to truly disrupt the rocket launch industry. 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Hopper 04:50 - 3D Printing 06:20 - Zenith 12:00 - Avionics 16:37 - Heatshield 26:30 - First Mission 30:07 - Pumps 31:05 - Andromeda Manifold / Boltline 36:18 - Injectors / Engine Cell 37:40 - Tanks 46:00 - Zenith Bell 48:44 - Test Site 50:20 - Andromeda Engine 1:04:55 - Zenith 1:19:50 - Zenith Stand 1:21:58 - Andromeda Test 1:25:50 - Outro

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My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder & CEO of Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab is scaling launch cadence faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9. 0:44 The biggest bottleneck to increasing launch cadence and mass to orbit 1:25 Growth of new space startups 3:05 Why governments have been ineffective at scaling launch 3:53 Tall Poppy Syndrome 4:38 Starting Rocket Lab without having $100 million 7:24 Scaling Electron vs focusing on Neutron 9:17 Rocket Lab hustle 11:10 Creating a culture of “F*ck it, let’s do it” 11:40 Worst supplier experiences 13:54 Having an engine explode before an important meeting 18:52 Rocket Lab’s first mission to the moon 20:55 Chewing glass and forcing the outcome to be good 22:57 Similarities in how Elon and Peter operate 25:05 Elon time and how to structure timelines 27:13 Designing a culture where everyone runs towards the fire 28:44 Making the Ferrari of rockets — the importance of creating beautiful things 31:20 “You don’t need to equate a price tag to beauty” 32:12 Why Peter hates launch day 34:48 “After a launch failure this place is a morgue” 35:22 Moving forward after a failure 36:40 Transitioning from an R&D organization to scaling rocket production 38:07 Production hell with rockets 39:09 Taking learnings from Electron to Neutron 41:03 Having dinner with Elon 42:00 Keeping the hiring bar extraordinarily high 44:05 “My job is to fix sh*t” 44:56 Rocket Lab’s first NASA launch 45:55 “The great thing about America is anything is possible” 47:40 Coming to Silicon Valley — meeting with Vinod Khosla 51:22 Why he decided to take $RKLB public 54:12 Creating a company that will outlive you 55:41 Turning Rocket Lab into a profitable business 57:23 The best space companies will all build their own rockets 1:00:35 Scaling Neutron 1:01:32 Why they’re using carbon fiber instead of steel 1:02:56 “Going public was a great capital unlock” 1:04:10 The importance of relentless optimism

Ti Morse

165,782 views • 5 months ago

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BREAKING: Inside Impulse Space with Tom Mueller (Tom Mueller) (SpaceX's 1st Employee) FULL TOUR The famous engineer behind the Merlin engine, now Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (Impulse Space) ICYMI: Merlin still powers Falcon 9 today, the most reliable rocket engine ever flown & the highest thrust-to-weight ever developed. It's the workhorse behind nearly every SpaceX mission: Starlink launches, Dragon crew & cargo flights to the ISS, & booster landings Tom walks us through the factory floor, from the avionics clean room to a live rocket engine firing in the vacuum chamber Impulse is building the in-space mobility layer: the vehicles & engines that move spacecraft after launch, from LEO to GEO, the Moon, infinity & beyond We cover: → Mira: precision maneuvering spacecraft & its saiph thrusters (8 thrusters, ~50 lbs thrust, 5-yr orbit life) → Helios: long haul same-day delivery vehicle (12 tons of LOX/methane, LEO to GEO) → Deneb Engine: 15,000 lbs thrust engine that powers Helios, ox-rich staged combustion, carbon skirt running over 3,000°F → Why 3D printing is "almost a cheat code" for rocket engines → In-house composite tanks, Novaloy, & copper liners machined from 700 lbs down to 25 → 3 spacecraft in orbit + a 1,200-meter rendezvous → Starlink, iterating Merlin & Raptor, & working with Elon Musk → Nuclear propulsion, the Moon, & why compute needs to move to space 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Tom Mueller, Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (00:49) Inside Impulse Space (02:32) Avionics Bay floor (02:59) Building rockets at home (03:50) Mira and Helios (08:00) Why Tom left SpaceX (09:33) The Deneb Engine walkthrough (11:42) Testing in Mojave (12:23) Favorite part of the Engine (13:30) How it's 3D Printed (14:21) Why 3D Printing changes everything (16:54) Finding Talent for COPVs (17:28) No Modern hardware without software (19:52) The Mill Turn explained (22:42) Payload Deck Design (25:28) Entering the Secret Area (30:48) Thrust, Flow Rate, & 100 Sensors (32:13) Collision avoidance in Orbit (32:57) The Electric Propulsion Chamber (34:28) Nuclear Electric is the future (38:49) Data Centers in Space (40:28) SpaceX & Starlink's Growth (41:10) Working with Elon (42:07) If not CEO, then what? (42:32) Moon matters more than Mars

Molly O’Shea

729,885 views • 2 months ago

Canada's first orbital-class rocket engine is now being manufactured! Our patent pending Hadfield-150 engine is the largest and most powerful rocket engine ever built in Canada, and the first known Canadian orbital-class engine to make it to this stage. The Hadfield-150 builds on everything we learned after years of painstakingly designing, manufacturing, and testing the Hadfield-10 series, our first regeneratively cooled and additively manufactured liquid rocket engine. Every engine test, both successful and unsuccessful on our Darkhorse test stand at Area 66, retired risk that's now carried straight into Hadfield-150 and sovereign orbital launch for Canada. A few details about the Hadfield-150 engine series: ✅ Designed to power Tundra and Tundra+, our light and medium-lift launch vehicles, and built to scale to Tempest, our larger reusable medium lift vehicle ✅ Manufactured entirely in-house, from design to print to test, for true sovereign launch capability ✅ Produced at Rocket Factory 1, on our expanding fleet of metal additive manufacturing systems at the AMA Lab, including the largest known metal 3D printer in Canada ✅ Designed for reusability and medium-lift scale from the outset, and built to significantly cut the time, infrastructure, manufacturing and cost iterative engine testing usually requires, with room to scale to even larger engines by leveraging the same design ✅ Capable of engine-out functionality, so losing one on an early flight doesn't have to mean losing the mission ✅ Optimized for Canada's Launch the North initiative, to deliver sovereign operational capability in a time and cost efficient manner Initial testing starts later this year at our new Blackhawk orbital engine test cell at Area 66, our private test range in Ontario. Stacked, integrated vehicle testing comes later at the Atlantic Spaceport Complex, our spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador. Stay tuned for some exciting and fiery milestones ahead! 🚀🇨🇦 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency Transport Canada NGen Canada
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Canada's first orbital-class rocket engine is now being manufactured! Our patent pending Hadfield-150 engine is the largest and most powerful rocket engine ever built in Canada, and the first known Canadian orbital-class engine to make it to this stage. The Hadfield-150 builds on everything we learned after years of painstakingly designing, manufacturing, and testing the Hadfield-10 series, our first regeneratively cooled and additively manufactured liquid rocket engine. Every engine test, both successful and unsuccessful on our Darkhorse test stand at Area 66, retired risk that's now carried straight into Hadfield-150 and sovereign orbital launch for Canada. A few details about the Hadfield-150 engine series: ✅ Designed to power Tundra and Tundra+, our light and medium-lift launch vehicles, and built to scale to Tempest, our larger reusable medium lift vehicle ✅ Manufactured entirely in-house, from design to print to test, for true sovereign launch capability ✅ Produced at Rocket Factory 1, on our expanding fleet of metal additive manufacturing systems at the AMA Lab, including the largest known metal 3D printer in Canada ✅ Designed for reusability and medium-lift scale from the outset, and built to significantly cut the time, infrastructure, manufacturing and cost iterative engine testing usually requires, with room to scale to even larger engines by leveraging the same design ✅ Capable of engine-out functionality, so losing one on an early flight doesn't have to mean losing the mission ✅ Optimized for Canada's Launch the North initiative, to deliver sovereign operational capability in a time and cost efficient manner Initial testing starts later this year at our new Blackhawk orbital engine test cell at Area 66, our private test range in Ontario. Stacked, integrated vehicle testing comes later at the Atlantic Spaceport Complex, our spaceport in Newfoundland and Labrador. Stay tuned for some exciting and fiery milestones ahead! 🚀🇨🇦 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency Transport Canada NGen Canada

NordSpace 🇨🇦

27,668 views • 1 month ago

$RKLB is expecting updates on the MSR study mission as early as next week. Here’s why this potentially $2B award is a game-changer and means way more than just new revenues: ✅Credibility: Rocket Lab's involvement in a NASA flagship mission like MSR would cement its reputation as a top-tier aerospace company. ✅Technological Advancement: MSR is an interplanetary mission, which requires new high-performance systems like advanced propulsion, navigation, and communication. ✅Expansion: It would validate $RKLB capabilities to handle highly complex, interplanetary missions, making it more competitive for future government and commercial contracts. These advancements could be leveraged for future missions and potentially be commercialized. ✅Talents: Being part of a historic mission like MSR would make Rocket Lab more attractive to top-tier engineering talent and potential strategic partners, boosting its innovation capacity and industry alliances. ✅End-to-end: Winning MSR would mark Rocket Lab’s transition from a reliable launcher to a key player in interplanetary exploration, paving the way for long-term growth, diversification, and innovation. It’s not just about the money, it’s about positioning Rocket Lab as a cornerstone of the new space economy.
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$RKLB is expecting updates on the MSR study mission as early as next week. Here’s why this potentially $2B award is a game-changer and means way more than just new revenues: ✅Credibility: Rocket Lab's involvement in a NASA flagship mission like MSR would cement its reputation as a top-tier aerospace company. ✅Technological Advancement: MSR is an interplanetary mission, which requires new high-performance systems like advanced propulsion, navigation, and communication. ✅Expansion: It would validate $RKLB capabilities to handle highly complex, interplanetary missions, making it more competitive for future government and commercial contracts. These advancements could be leveraged for future missions and potentially be commercialized. ✅Talents: Being part of a historic mission like MSR would make Rocket Lab more attractive to top-tier engineering talent and potential strategic partners, boosting its innovation capacity and industry alliances. ✅End-to-end: Winning MSR would mark Rocket Lab’s transition from a reliable launcher to a key player in interplanetary exploration, paving the way for long-term growth, diversification, and innovation. It’s not just about the money, it’s about positioning Rocket Lab as a cornerstone of the new space economy.

Space Investor

102,234 views • 1 year ago

Inside Rocket Lab 's Neutron test program with VP Shaun D'Mello. From a carpark conversation with Peter Beck about a next generation, medium-lift launch vehicle, to a team of about 500 building & testing flight hardware. The race for reusable rockets is underway. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 02:32 - The first Neutron conversation 03:54 - Scaling the Neutron team: 5 to 500 05:53 - Building in public: 'The pressure is definitely on' 08:07 - Design consequences of a bigger rocket 09:40 - Inside the qualification program: Hungry Hippo fairing thermal testing 13:20 - Thrust structure: 125% max load test 15:39 - Stage 1 rebuild: 3D printing timeline 18:24 - Usability of AFP machine 19:10 - Archimedes engine update: Testing & build rate 21:31 - Avionics & flight software for debut flight 23:20 - Regulation required 24:07 - Reusability: Splashdown & stage recovery 26:25 - Flight 2 components in production 27:23 - Aircraft-like operations 30:05 - Allowance for future iterations 31:58 - Multi-planetary missions & human spaceflight 33:32 - 'This is going to be something that’s never been done before.' 34:27 - Likelihood of 2026 debut launch 35:06 - How the team is hustling
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Inside Rocket Lab 's Neutron test program with VP Shaun D'Mello. From a carpark conversation with Peter Beck about a next generation, medium-lift launch vehicle, to a team of about 500 building & testing flight hardware. The race for reusable rockets is underway. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 02:32 - The first Neutron conversation 03:54 - Scaling the Neutron team: 5 to 500 05:53 - Building in public: 'The pressure is definitely on' 08:07 - Design consequences of a bigger rocket 09:40 - Inside the qualification program: Hungry Hippo fairing thermal testing 13:20 - Thrust structure: 125% max load test 15:39 - Stage 1 rebuild: 3D printing timeline 18:24 - Usability of AFP machine 19:10 - Archimedes engine update: Testing & build rate 21:31 - Avionics & flight software for debut flight 23:20 - Regulation required 24:07 - Reusability: Splashdown & stage recovery 26:25 - Flight 2 components in production 27:23 - Aircraft-like operations 30:05 - Allowance for future iterations 31:58 - Multi-planetary missions & human spaceflight 33:32 - 'This is going to be something that’s never been done before.' 34:27 - Likelihood of 2026 debut launch 35:06 - How the team is hustling

Madison Malone

106,811 views • 4 months ago

Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again almost right away. In this episode of Hard Tech, Aaron Epstein sits down with Stoke Space co-founders Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman to find out why they chose to take on one of the hardest problems in rocket science, how being a smaller startup gives them an advantage, and what full reusability could unlock for the future of spaceflight. 00:00 — Intro 01:16 — Stoke Space’s mission: Rapid reusability 02:18 — Why Second Stage capsules fail reentry 03:34 — Stoke Space’s stage 2 solution 05:30 — Reusability-First Design Philosophy 07:25 — Early Engine Development & Test Strategy 10:48 — Vertical Integration & Manufacturing 11:21 — Iteration Speed as a Competitive Advantage 12:29 — Software as Core Infrastructure 14:00 — Path to Orbit & Launch Operations 15:04 — How This Could Change The World
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Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again almost right away. In this episode of Hard Tech, Aaron Epstein sits down with Stoke Space co-founders Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman to find out why they chose to take on one of the hardest problems in rocket science, how being a smaller startup gives them an advantage, and what full reusability could unlock for the future of spaceflight. 00:00 — Intro 01:16 — Stoke Space’s mission: Rapid reusability 02:18 — Why Second Stage capsules fail reentry 03:34 — Stoke Space’s stage 2 solution 05:30 — Reusability-First Design Philosophy 07:25 — Early Engine Development & Test Strategy 10:48 — Vertical Integration & Manufacturing 11:21 — Iteration Speed as a Competitive Advantage 12:29 — Software as Core Infrastructure 14:00 — Path to Orbit & Launch Operations 15:04 — How This Could Change The World

Y Combinator

254,404 views • 7 months ago

Chris Kemp (Chris Kemp) took Astra public in 2021 with a bold vision: low-cost rockets launching daily, bringing sovereign space access to every country on Earth. At its peak, the company was worth over $2B. Within two years, that valuation collapsed by 99%. Valley of Depth EP 011 brings Chris back on the show to go inside one of the most dramatic flameouts and attempted comebacks in the commercial space era. We discuss: – Why Astra’s SPAC-era promises didn’t survive contact with reality – What really went wrong with Rocket 3 and how much of that falls on Kemp – The decision to take the company private and buy it back for pennies on the dollar – How Astra raised $80M, and its attempt to raise another $100M+ – The quiet traction of its satellite propulsion business – Rocket 4, and whether this time is actually different – How Astra is being repositioned as a mobile, defense-aligned launch platform Full episode in comments 👇
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Chris Kemp (Chris Kemp) took Astra public in 2021 with a bold vision: low-cost rockets launching daily, bringing sovereign space access to every country on Earth. At its peak, the company was worth over $2B. Within two years, that valuation collapsed by 99%. Valley of Depth EP 011 brings Chris back on the show to go inside one of the most dramatic flameouts and attempted comebacks in the commercial space era. We discuss: – Why Astra’s SPAC-era promises didn’t survive contact with reality – What really went wrong with Rocket 3 and how much of that falls on Kemp – The decision to take the company private and buy it back for pennies on the dollar – How Astra raised $80M, and its attempt to raise another $100M+ – The quiet traction of its satellite propulsion business – Rocket 4, and whether this time is actually different – How Astra is being repositioned as a mobile, defense-aligned launch platform Full episode in comments 👇

Mo Islam

12,566 views • 1 year ago

After years of development, testing and refinement, we are printing one of our last Hadfield-10 rocket engines, a bittersweet moment 🫡 More of our team is transitioning toward getting our much larger orbital-class Hadfield-100 engine ready for the test stand, and getting Canada to orbit for the first time with our Tundra rocket. The pressure-fed Hadfield-10 series has been the backbone of NordSpace's propulsion program since our earliest days. It's the engine that proved we could design, manufacture, test and fly liquid rocket engines from scratch, entirely in-house, at the pace necessary to reach orbit. It powered our first successful hot-fire tests, survived our most demanding qualification campaigns, and gave our team the hard-won knowledge that no textbook or simulation could provide. It also powers our Taiga sub-orbital vehicle, which is taking flight in a few weeks. Every experimental lesson learned in its development from combustion stability, regenerative cooling, additive manufacturing, and test operations lives on in what comes next. That knowledge now flows directly into our turbopump fed Hadfield-100 engine, the most powerful rocket engine in Canadian history. Designed to power our orbital Tundra rocket to deliver 500+ kg to LEO and scaling further to 1,100 kg LEO in the Tundra+ configuration. Architected from day one to grow to the thrust levels required for our reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle targeting 5,000+ kg to LEO while striking the right balance between performance, scalability, heritage, and speed of development to meet the Government of Canada's targets. The Hadfield-10's design will also form the foundation of our SHARP Sabre hypersonic rocket's M2S-HyRock engine. The full shift to the Hadfield-100 is a major milestone for us, and it's not just about more powerful engines. The infrastructure we're developing from moving to a much larger facility, acquiring much larger metal 3D printers, developing new test cells, and pursuing rigorous standards all feed in to this next phase of growth for our program. To everyone on the NordSpace team who designed, printed, tested, and refined these engines across so many late nights, early mornings and weekends, thank you. This chapter made everything that follows possible, and the next one starts now. Ad astra per aspera 🚀🇨🇦 National Defence Canadian Space Agency Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Armed Forces Transport Canada
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After years of development, testing and refinement, we are printing one of our last Hadfield-10 rocket engines, a bittersweet moment 🫡 More of our team is transitioning toward getting our much larger orbital-class Hadfield-100 engine ready for the test stand, and getting Canada to orbit for the first time with our Tundra rocket. The pressure-fed Hadfield-10 series has been the backbone of NordSpace's propulsion program since our earliest days. It's the engine that proved we could design, manufacture, test and fly liquid rocket engines from scratch, entirely in-house, at the pace necessary to reach orbit. It powered our first successful hot-fire tests, survived our most demanding qualification campaigns, and gave our team the hard-won knowledge that no textbook or simulation could provide. It also powers our Taiga sub-orbital vehicle, which is taking flight in a few weeks. Every experimental lesson learned in its development from combustion stability, regenerative cooling, additive manufacturing, and test operations lives on in what comes next. That knowledge now flows directly into our turbopump fed Hadfield-100 engine, the most powerful rocket engine in Canadian history. Designed to power our orbital Tundra rocket to deliver 500+ kg to LEO and scaling further to 1,100 kg LEO in the Tundra+ configuration. Architected from day one to grow to the thrust levels required for our reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle targeting 5,000+ kg to LEO while striking the right balance between performance, scalability, heritage, and speed of development to meet the Government of Canada's targets. The Hadfield-10's design will also form the foundation of our SHARP Sabre hypersonic rocket's M2S-HyRock engine. The full shift to the Hadfield-100 is a major milestone for us, and it's not just about more powerful engines. The infrastructure we're developing from moving to a much larger facility, acquiring much larger metal 3D printers, developing new test cells, and pursuing rigorous standards all feed in to this next phase of growth for our program. To everyone on the NordSpace team who designed, printed, tested, and refined these engines across so many late nights, early mornings and weekends, thank you. This chapter made everything that follows possible, and the next one starts now. Ad astra per aspera 🚀🇨🇦 National Defence Canadian Space Agency Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Armed Forces Transport Canada

NordSpace 🇨🇦

42,533 views • 5 months ago

Every rocket ever built before Starship was thrown away after one use. Elon Musk just explained on a SpaceX livestream why that single fact made space exploration practically impossible until now. His analogy was the one that landed hardest. Imagine if you had to throw away a commercial airplane every time it flew. Not maintain it. Not refuel it. Throw it away and build a new one. What happens to the price of a ticket? What happens to the airline industry? What happens to global travel? It collapses. Nobody flies. That is exactly what every space program in history has been doing with rockets. Building them once, using them once, throwing them away. The cost was not a failure of ambition. It was a structural consequence of how the hardware worked. Starship is the first rocket ever designed for full and rapid reusability. Not just reusable. Rapidly reusable. The rocket lands, gets caught by the tower, goes back on the launch stand, and flies again without refurbishment. Like an aircraft. No laborious inspection between flights. Starship B3 is already more than double the thrust of the Saturn 5 moon rocket. Version 4 will be roughly three times. And Musk said they expect Starship to be flying more than once per hour eventually. That number is hard to absorb. The most powerful moving object ever built. Flying more than once per hour. The cost of getting mass to orbit does not drop gradually when that happens. It collapses. And when the cost collapses, everything that was previously impossible becomes a question of how fast you can build. Reusability is not a feature. It is the entire unlock. Every other problem in space is downstream of this one.
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Every rocket ever built before Starship was thrown away after one use. Elon Musk just explained on a SpaceX livestream why that single fact made space exploration practically impossible until now. His analogy was the one that landed hardest. Imagine if you had to throw away a commercial airplane every time it flew. Not maintain it. Not refuel it. Throw it away and build a new one. What happens to the price of a ticket? What happens to the airline industry? What happens to global travel? It collapses. Nobody flies. That is exactly what every space program in history has been doing with rockets. Building them once, using them once, throwing them away. The cost was not a failure of ambition. It was a structural consequence of how the hardware worked. Starship is the first rocket ever designed for full and rapid reusability. Not just reusable. Rapidly reusable. The rocket lands, gets caught by the tower, goes back on the launch stand, and flies again without refurbishment. Like an aircraft. No laborious inspection between flights. Starship B3 is already more than double the thrust of the Saturn 5 moon rocket. Version 4 will be roughly three times. And Musk said they expect Starship to be flying more than once per hour eventually. That number is hard to absorb. The most powerful moving object ever built. Flying more than once per hour. The cost of getting mass to orbit does not drop gradually when that happens. It collapses. And when the cost collapses, everything that was previously impossible becomes a question of how fast you can build. Reusability is not a feature. It is the entire unlock. Every other problem in space is downstream of this one.

Ihtesham Ali

10,431 views • 2 months ago

Why Japan Is Teaching Rockets to Come Home The concept of a reusable rocket is deceptively simple: instead of discarding an expensive stage into the ocean after every launch, land it and launch it again. SpaceX built its competitive edge on this very principle—and now others are mastering the same technology. Japan joined this club over the weekend. Its space agency, JAXA, conducted the first flight of the RV-X—a small experimental rocket developed in partnership with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The flight was brief, lasting less than a minute: it rose 11 meters, shifted 16 meters laterally, and executed a soft, vertical landing. Keeping a rocket upright on a column of thrust is akin to balancing a pencil on your fingertip—except the pencil weighs tons and is powered by a flame. A split-second error is all it takes to lose that vertical stability. Engineering features play a crucial role here: an upgraded engine that has undergone 165 hot-fire tests and four shock-absorbing legs designed to cushion the impact with the ground. All of this serves as a rehearsal for a far more ambitious goal: a future reusable successor to the current expendable H3 rocket, intended to deliver payloads to orbit at a significantly lower cost. Japan is not acting alone; it is developing the RV-X in collaboration with France and Germany, while just a day earlier, China successfully recovered a first stage for the first time. The world is gradually shifting toward rockets that do not burn up after a single flight but instead return to pick up their next payload.
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Why Japan Is Teaching Rockets to Come Home The concept of a reusable rocket is deceptively simple: instead of discarding an expensive stage into the ocean after every launch, land it and launch it again. SpaceX built its competitive edge on this very principle—and now others are mastering the same technology. Japan joined this club over the weekend. Its space agency, JAXA, conducted the first flight of the RV-X—a small experimental rocket developed in partnership with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The flight was brief, lasting less than a minute: it rose 11 meters, shifted 16 meters laterally, and executed a soft, vertical landing. Keeping a rocket upright on a column of thrust is akin to balancing a pencil on your fingertip—except the pencil weighs tons and is powered by a flame. A split-second error is all it takes to lose that vertical stability. Engineering features play a crucial role here: an upgraded engine that has undergone 165 hot-fire tests and four shock-absorbing legs designed to cushion the impact with the ground. All of this serves as a rehearsal for a far more ambitious goal: a future reusable successor to the current expendable H3 rocket, intended to deliver payloads to orbit at a significantly lower cost. Japan is not acting alone; it is developing the RV-X in collaboration with France and Germany, while just a day earlier, China successfully recovered a first stage for the first time. The world is gradually shifting toward rockets that do not burn up after a single flight but instead return to pick up their next payload.

Black Hole

16,771 views • 1 month ago

NEW: How 137 Ventures Built a 1%+ Position in SpaceX Over 16 Years Interview with Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Co-Founder & Managing Partner One of the most underrated investment stories in tech: a contrarian approach that built one of the most consequential ownership positions in the industry. 137 quietly accumulated SpaceX since 2011, investing over 2 dozen times & never sold a share. Today the firm runs $15B+ AUM, deployed $1.7B last year, holds positions in 40+ companies, & has backed nearly 60 portfolio companies in company’s history. Big names include: SpaceX, Palantir, Uber, Anduril, Cognition, Brex, Impulse Space, Gusto, Ramp, & Hadrian. The thesis, circa 2011: companies would stay private longer. That bet built into one of venture's largest SpaceX positions, accumulated through secondaries and tenders. We cover: - Early SpaceX conviction - Buying the tender cadence - Why secondary, why now - Companies over categories - Cash on cash discipline - Passing on foundational models - Impulse Series D 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at 137 Ventures (00:51) The story of SpaceX (02:50) Why companies are staying private longer (04:15) What Liquidity actually means for Founders and Employees (05:38) Why he left Founders Fund to start from scratch (06:23) $240B Secondaries market (07:01) What made SpaceX a generational bet (07:52) How the Falcon 9 made the entire Space Industry obsolete (10:59) When Starlink became the obvious winner (13:29) How 137 Ventures turns Conviction into Compounding (14:09) Backing SpaceX alumni: the Impulse investment (14:32) Will the secondary market keep growing? (15:15) Companies vs. Categories (16:25) Separating AI hype from long-term durability (17:47) How 137 Ventures is structurally different from traditional VC (22:19) SpaceX made blue collar workers rich (23:24) Ownership percentage vs. Cash on cash returns (24:31) The most memorable moments (25:43) The Third Falcon 1 Launch (26:55) Why test failures are actually a good sign (28:32) The biggest lessons from Elon and Gwynne (29:07) What's next for 137 Ventures
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NEW: How 137 Ventures Built a 1%+ Position in SpaceX Over 16 Years Interview with Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Co-Founder & Managing Partner One of the most underrated investment stories in tech: a contrarian approach that built one of the most consequential ownership positions in the industry. 137 quietly accumulated SpaceX since 2011, investing over 2 dozen times & never sold a share. Today the firm runs $15B+ AUM, deployed $1.7B last year, holds positions in 40+ companies, & has backed nearly 60 portfolio companies in company’s history. Big names include: SpaceX, Palantir, Uber, Anduril, Cognition, Brex, Impulse Space, Gusto, Ramp, & Hadrian. The thesis, circa 2011: companies would stay private longer. That bet built into one of venture's largest SpaceX positions, accumulated through secondaries and tenders. We cover: - Early SpaceX conviction - Buying the tender cadence - Why secondary, why now - Companies over categories - Cash on cash discipline - Passing on foundational models - Impulse Series D 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at 137 Ventures (00:51) The story of SpaceX (02:50) Why companies are staying private longer (04:15) What Liquidity actually means for Founders and Employees (05:38) Why he left Founders Fund to start from scratch (06:23) $240B Secondaries market (07:01) What made SpaceX a generational bet (07:52) How the Falcon 9 made the entire Space Industry obsolete (10:59) When Starlink became the obvious winner (13:29) How 137 Ventures turns Conviction into Compounding (14:09) Backing SpaceX alumni: the Impulse investment (14:32) Will the secondary market keep growing? (15:15) Companies vs. Categories (16:25) Separating AI hype from long-term durability (17:47) How 137 Ventures is structurally different from traditional VC (22:19) SpaceX made blue collar workers rich (23:24) Ownership percentage vs. Cash on cash returns (24:31) The most memorable moments (25:43) The Third Falcon 1 Launch (26:55) Why test failures are actually a good sign (28:32) The biggest lessons from Elon and Gwynne (29:07) What's next for 137 Ventures

Molly O’Shea

158,129 views • 2 months ago

Elon to Joe Rogan: “We deliberately ripped heat-shield tiles off Starship in the worst places, flew it back at 17,000 mph like a flaming skyscraper — 25× the speed of sound — and it STILL nailed a soft landing with holes burned clean through the steel.” Then he drops the real bomb: “Earth’s gravity is basically set to MAX difficulty. 10–20% higher and humanity would be trapped here forever. Starship is the first rocket ever designed where full reuse is actually possible. When we crack it next year, cost to orbit falls 100×–1000×.” 33 new Raptor 3 engines on the booster. Each one makes almost 10× the thrust of a 747 engine but looks like parts are missing because it’s THAT simplified. Hot-staging = the ship rips away while the booster is still blasting fire straight at it. SpaceX already launches ~90% of everything Earth sends to orbit this year… and Starship is just getting started. We’re watching the exact moment space travel stops being “rocket science” and becomes aviation. 10-minute clip below — sound on, prepare to have your mind blown twice in the first 60 seconds
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Elon to Joe Rogan: “We deliberately ripped heat-shield tiles off Starship in the worst places, flew it back at 17,000 mph like a flaming skyscraper — 25× the speed of sound — and it STILL nailed a soft landing with holes burned clean through the steel.” Then he drops the real bomb: “Earth’s gravity is basically set to MAX difficulty. 10–20% higher and humanity would be trapped here forever. Starship is the first rocket ever designed where full reuse is actually possible. When we crack it next year, cost to orbit falls 100×–1000×.” 33 new Raptor 3 engines on the booster. Each one makes almost 10× the thrust of a 747 engine but looks like parts are missing because it’s THAT simplified. Hot-staging = the ship rips away while the booster is still blasting fire straight at it. SpaceX already launches ~90% of everything Earth sends to orbit this year… and Starship is just getting started. We’re watching the exact moment space travel stops being “rocket science” and becomes aviation. 10-minute clip below — sound on, prepare to have your mind blown twice in the first 60 seconds

Camus

983,416 views • 9 months ago

Inside Nemotron and NVIDIA's AI lab: my conversation with Bryan Catanzaro (Bryan Catanzaro). NVIDIA is a chip company. So why does it put hundreds of researchers on building AI models - and then give them away for free? We go deep into the Nemotron models, what it takes to build a top AI lab, and the future of frontier AI. 01:33 - Is open source AI catching the frontier? 05:29 - Do closed labs blocking distillation slow open source down? 07:42 - Is the US falling behind China? 10:30 - Why companies actually choose open models 12:39 - A "crazy" 2008 bet: machine learning on GPUs 15:33 - Working with Andrew Ng and Dario Amodei at Baidu 17:41 - Coming back to NVIDIA: DLSS and the birth of Megatron 21:55 - The real reason NVIDIA builds its own models 24:28 - Is Moore's Law really dead? 33:37 - The Nemotron family: Nano, Super, Ultra 35:09 - Built for agents: why NVIDIA bets on speed 36:02 - How you train a 550B model in 4 bits 39:25 - Hybrid Mamba-Transformer, explained simply 42:31 - Mixture of experts, and why NVIDIA built NVL72 around it 47:26 - Why a 1-million-token context window matters 49:26 - Multi-token prediction: how the model predicts 5 tokens at once 52:47 - Multi-teacher distillation: teaching one model from many 58:01 - Where reinforcement learning goes next 01:00:16 - Inside NVIDIA's research org: "the mission is the boss" 01:04:03 - How NVIDIA decides who gets the GPUs 01:10:53 - Why NVIDIA still feels entrepreneurial after 33 years 01:12:58 - Why Bryan doesn't believe in the singularity 01:17:50 - The AI backlash 01:19:18 - The controversial case: open AI is safer than closed
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Inside Nemotron and NVIDIA's AI lab: my conversation with Bryan Catanzaro (Bryan Catanzaro). NVIDIA is a chip company. So why does it put hundreds of researchers on building AI models - and then give them away for free? We go deep into the Nemotron models, what it takes to build a top AI lab, and the future of frontier AI. 01:33 - Is open source AI catching the frontier? 05:29 - Do closed labs blocking distillation slow open source down? 07:42 - Is the US falling behind China? 10:30 - Why companies actually choose open models 12:39 - A "crazy" 2008 bet: machine learning on GPUs 15:33 - Working with Andrew Ng and Dario Amodei at Baidu 17:41 - Coming back to NVIDIA: DLSS and the birth of Megatron 21:55 - The real reason NVIDIA builds its own models 24:28 - Is Moore's Law really dead? 33:37 - The Nemotron family: Nano, Super, Ultra 35:09 - Built for agents: why NVIDIA bets on speed 36:02 - How you train a 550B model in 4 bits 39:25 - Hybrid Mamba-Transformer, explained simply 42:31 - Mixture of experts, and why NVIDIA built NVL72 around it 47:26 - Why a 1-million-token context window matters 49:26 - Multi-token prediction: how the model predicts 5 tokens at once 52:47 - Multi-teacher distillation: teaching one model from many 58:01 - Where reinforcement learning goes next 01:00:16 - Inside NVIDIA's research org: "the mission is the boss" 01:04:03 - How NVIDIA decides who gets the GPUs 01:10:53 - Why NVIDIA still feels entrepreneurial after 33 years 01:12:58 - Why Bryan doesn't believe in the singularity 01:17:50 - The AI backlash 01:19:18 - The controversial case: open AI is safer than closed

Matt Turck

56,903 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk reveals what happens when a rocket launch needs approval from Fish and Wildlife Elon: "Nonetheless, we were forced to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, put headphones on the seal and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed." Elon: "This is an actual thing that happened. This is actually real. I have pictures." Before the seal, there was a shark. Elon: "One of the things that was a bit of a challenge at one point is that they were worried about our rocket hitting a shark." He asked for the data to calculate the odds. They refused, in case shark hunters got hold of it. Elon: "Then they said, well, there's another part of Fish and Wildlife that can do this analysis. I'm like, well, why don't you give them the data? They don't, we don't trust them. Like, excuse me, but they're literally in your department." Then a second agency raised whales. Elon: "If our rocket does hit a whale, which is extremely unlikely beyond all belief, that whale has some seriously bad luck. It's the least lucky whale ever." The seal test was for launches out of Vandenberg, where the seal population has been rising for years. Elon: "So if anything, rocket booms are an aphrodisiac based on the evidence." Elon: "The amazing part is how calm the seal was. Because if I was a seal, I'd be like, this is the end. They're definitely gonna eat me." Elon: "Its seal buddies are never gonna believe him that he got strapped to a board and they put headphones on his ears." They did it twice. Elon: "I don't think the public is quite aware of the madness that goes on."
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Elon Musk reveals what happens when a rocket launch needs approval from Fish and Wildlife Elon: "Nonetheless, we were forced to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, put headphones on the seal and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed." Elon: "This is an actual thing that happened. This is actually real. I have pictures." Before the seal, there was a shark. Elon: "One of the things that was a bit of a challenge at one point is that they were worried about our rocket hitting a shark." He asked for the data to calculate the odds. They refused, in case shark hunters got hold of it. Elon: "Then they said, well, there's another part of Fish and Wildlife that can do this analysis. I'm like, well, why don't you give them the data? They don't, we don't trust them. Like, excuse me, but they're literally in your department." Then a second agency raised whales. Elon: "If our rocket does hit a whale, which is extremely unlikely beyond all belief, that whale has some seriously bad luck. It's the least lucky whale ever." The seal test was for launches out of Vandenberg, where the seal population has been rising for years. Elon: "So if anything, rocket booms are an aphrodisiac based on the evidence." Elon: "The amazing part is how calm the seal was. Because if I was a seal, I'd be like, this is the end. They're definitely gonna eat me." Elon: "Its seal buddies are never gonna believe him that he got strapped to a board and they put headphones on his ears." They did it twice. Elon: "I don't think the public is quite aware of the madness that goes on."

Naruto

7,957,768 views • 25 days ago