Down to 80 cents and building out of a laundry room
From Building the Space Superhighway: Service Stations in Orbit on Deeptech Decoded, with Ashi Dissanayake.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, It depends on the spacecraft, honestly. I do have customers who's really saving up on time because time is such a critical thing for a lot of our customers and they can't wait another year to get a launch window. Or like if something breaks down, can't like if they run out of fuel, they can't wait another two years, right? To build the whole spacecraft, go through the whole process and to launch. And so time is one of the main critical things. it's like, you're looking at like saving about one to two years. And also in terms of how much money they save, time is money because building another spacecraft is really expensive. Again, it depends on the spacecraft. like spacecraft could range from a couple of million dollars to hundreds of million dollars, right? But that all depends on. what type of spacecraft it is. So that's why I can't give you an exact number because we have a wide range of customers who owns fuel, like who owns 50 kilograms of fuel each time to wanting 10 metric tons per mission. So it all depends what their end goal is. Like if your end goal is to go to the moon, it changes compared to somebody who's an OTB company who who needs maybe like, let's say a hundred kilos of fuel per mission.
Yeah, your story of the dryer machine and the laundry room was my highlight honestly. Then from those days what changed? Like what happened? How did you guys evolve?

Yeah. You Yeah, so when we first started, it was me and my co-founder, we put everything we had into the company until we had like 80 cents to our names. I remember not being able to put gas to the car and then the car insurance got canceled because we hadn't paid the insurance for like months at that point because everything was going into the company to like whatever the small amount of hardware we could get our hands on, we would buy it. and it was March of 2024, we knew we were gonna get evicted in April because we didn't have money for rent and we applied for all these loans of like, you know, get like same day loan or whatever. And we were like, still, but we were still.
Yeah. You started at 2023 for the record, correct? Officially, probably.


