01:01:41 · Ty Morse, Peter Beck
[01:01:41] S1: Yeah. Are you doing anything new on, like, the material side? [01:01:44] S0: Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, so it's a it's a complicated... So a rocket is a giant engineering compromise. Like, if we're having a design review and all the subsystems are in a room together and one of them is happy, then something's gone wrong. Like, everybody should be equally as miserable because everything is a giant engineering compromise. And, you know, carbon is, you know, strength to weight ratio is just vastly superior to any other material. Like, it's four times better than stainless steel, for example. You know, for the same strength, it's one quarter of the weight. So, but with that comes other challenges. And, you know, we've been able to solve these challenges through a lot of this automation with AFP machines. So, you know, the structures of Neutron are just absurdly light, which enables you to, you know, take pressure off other areas like rocket engines. Our rocket engines don't have to be, like, on the limit of grenades. They can be backed right off and just sort of, you know, a relatively unstressed engine. And that's because, you know, we've had... Our structures are so light that, you know, we can back some performance off the propulsion. [01:02:56] S1: What's been the biggest unlock over the past, like, twenty years that you wouldn't have expected, like, most unexpected thing that have happened?
01:02:56 · Ty Morse, Peter Beck
[01:02:56] S1: What's been the biggest unlock over the past, like, twenty years that you wouldn't have expected, like, most unexpected thing that have happened? [01:03:03] S0: Well, there's lots of things. There's both from a technology standpoint and also, I would say, capital, because it is a big one, because we always had in this position where we have vastly less resources than our competitors. And, you know, even as a public company, that is true. But as a public company, we've been able to harness the, you know, the capital access that we have, and just look how fast this business has grown, like, year on year, it's just crazy. Not just organically, but inorganically, we're able to acquire capabilities and grow those as well. So, you know, the of, you know, the line here is fairly vertical with respect to that. So, you know, going public was a great capital unlocker for us to go and, you know, really, really grow. I mean, we went public with one product, and now we have hundreds, and we're building, you know, complete as a prime contractor for the US government on national security. So a lot of that was unlocked by, you know, having that ability to access that capital. [01:04:11] S1: I've gotten this overwhelming sense of just relentless optimism from you and from just the team in general. What is the importance of having just extreme optimism?
01:04:11 · Ty Morse, Peter Beck
[01:04:11] S1: I've gotten this overwhelming sense of just relentless optimism from you and from just the team in general. What is the importance of having just extreme optimism? [01:04:22] S0: Well, I mean, I think I think, yeah. I mean, it's it's it's it's absolutely critical, but I think what a boring person if you're always down. I mean, like, would you wanna work with somebody who has just, like, took the negative side of the angle? I mean [01:04:36] S1: Never. No. But the thing is most people aren't... It's like you just constantly have a smile on your face every time I see you. [01:04:42] S0: Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm having fun, so it's not anything other than that. But, no, I think there's a lot to be optimistic about. Like, this is we're doing fun stuff, and we're doing big stuff that's important. So I'm not sure how you could be anything but an optimist in this industry. And it probably, to be fair, it probably does attract optimists because, you know, the rocket gods are trying to crush you every chance they get. So you have to, you know, you have to be a little bit sunny side up.