Starting with geostationary orbit, where customers want fuel first
From Building the Space Superhighway: Service Stations in Orbit on Deeptech Decoded, with Ashi Dissanayake.
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Exactly, that's totally a good problem.
done anything with the space sector. Why would they care?

Mm-hmm. I would think because like they might not have to care about going outside of Earth or become multi-planetary, right? But that being said, we launched a lot of satellites and the satellites are like we can check the weather and give internet to the Earth and there's so many use cases with these satellites. And the fact that we can refuel spacecraft that move satellites around or deploy satellites in orbit get so much value. So that's why I think someone on earth should still care about refueling in space because eventually it's like a full cycle where you still get benefit on earth.
And I'd love to ask, what are the ideal locations? Is high orbit, low orbit? What locations are the primary goals in your head to build?

Initially, our customers are looking for high energy orbits. So, geo is where we are looking in the beginning and then we'll develop the whole infrastructure, whole network moving from there. But that being said, we do have some conversations with some customers for low energy orbits as well. But that's a conversation that we are having. But initially, it's going to be high energy orbits.
Okay, actually currently the conversations are started to again pop up with NASA's Artemis project and with the moon and like in the one of the next episodes we're gonna host your friend to discuss how are we gonna build a hotel on the moon. exactly. So then how is it gonna affect the launch windows for Mars?

Mm-hmm. ⁓ GRU space.
maybe then

Yeah, actually, we do have some customers looking to refill on their way to the moon. So we signed that LOI like about like two years ago. And yeah, so we already have customers who wants to go further. And then the value that they get so much from us is being able to refill on the way because now they can carry more cargo. And so they don't have to carry all that fuel from all the way from Earth.


