Why spacecraft will not need to be perfect anymore
From Building the Space Superhighway: Service Stations in Orbit on Deeptech Decoded, with Ashi Dissanayake.
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It is way bigger than that because when I talk to our customers, I constantly have this conversation with our customers and refilling is such a big enabler for their missions. Now they can stay no bit longer because they have a fuel supply. They don't have to carry all that fuel from Earth. And once their mission is done, they can just keep reusing the same spacecraft for more times. it just totally changes the mission profile that they had planned. So that's what PovTor enabling.
people then to say hey if I have a way to survive and refill then actually I can be a little bit more agile in the way that I develop I don't need to be super perfect then I can just try to find a way because in the long term your mission is not only refill but also help them solve some technical issues help them to get help over there like a station that you go you dock and
Exactly.
Yeah, so then how would then this change the entire way they approach building? Because you kind of like go back to revisit and then, okay, we used to do this. ⁓ actually this is solved. My biggest constraint. Now I can start designing in a different way.
Mm-hmm. Exactly, like you are like spot on. Because right now how spacecraft are built, like they have to be 100 % perfect. They have to work. And if they don't work, they just have to send another spacecraft, right? But with Spacium, like in the beginning they can refill, but eventually once they come to our station, we'll inspect their spacecraft. But this is like a very long-term plan because we want to make sure. we are tackling the refueling issue first because that's what our customers are asking for. And then eventually the spacecrafts could be, they don't have to be as perfect as they are today, like because now we can inspect them and then we can swap hardware if something's broken and something's malfunctioning. And that's just going to open up the whole industry.
But, okay, how about that I want to play little bit of a devil's advocate. So, and I say, Hey, dear, I see you saw the problem. And now even the design of the rock has changed and we adapted, all of us exactly spacecraft and we adapted and now, but all of a sudden we have so much things being sent to space.
