Running 95% of spacecraft tests in-house to iterate faster

Hmm Yeah, that's a really good question. I'm always thinking about the long term and short term as well. So we have like we have trade-offs obviously like sometimes it might only work in the short term but as long as we can adapt in the future with what with the technology that we have today to make it easier in the future I think that's a good trade-off to be able to have a very successful mission and test our hardware. in the short term. there are trade-offs, but it's just a matter of what's more important. Is it important to prove it right now and then adapt, or should we make it easier in the future and make it harder in the short term? So it just depends on the hardware and it depends on the problem, really.

Mm. Yeah. And when it comes to your iterations, your experiments, you doing simulations? How advanced are they? Are you able to do it mostly on the software end or also hardware part, but very selectively?

So we do it very differently, honestly. We are doing 95 % of the tests in-house for our spacecraft. So only thing that we don't have is X-ray for our welds. And we do welding in-house, we do like vibration tests in-house, we have a TVAC, we have small, we can do some machining in-house. We do pressure tests, everything in-house. So that's why gives us like, so our iteration time is really low compared to like what you see in the industry because we just do it in-house. We test it, we build it, we iterate. So that's why we were able to do everything in five months, but also very less sleep, but something that we are trying to change moving forward. We realized sleep is very important after our first mission. okay.

It's very good.

but yeah.