Launching from a 40-foot shipping container
From Rocket Cargo Anywhere In 15 Minutes. The U.S. Air Force Is In. on Deeptech Decoded, with Matija Milenovic.
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there are two scenarios. One is a commercial one. The other is the military, right? And for the commercial one, you still need to little bit of a kind of set up, I guess, or at least to tell people where is it going to go from and where is it going to land. the military one is the most interesting one because it could be anywhere.
and especially GPS disabled places, those like the very, very tough environments. let's take a look at the situation where you send it in the military scenario.
And in the middle of nowhere, like how do you even know where to pick? And then how do you know that where you're gonna land? And when you land, like what are the things that needs to be checked, checked, checked? Because it's an autonomous rocket, right? Like it's not like someone is like driving, yeah? And then what's the system behind it? If you just break it down the system for us, that will be super cool.

Yeah, so kind of we I'll I'll stick to the things that we've publicly disclosed. So we we
Yeah.

launch from a forty foot shipping container. And so the idea is because our rockets are relatively small, that like Rook Two that we're building, that's kind of our our gonna be our first product, we can preposition that container that has the launch system inside of it. and so that pretty much means wherever you can whatever flat surface you can put a forty foot shipping container on, which is extremely common, you can launch a rocket from.

And so from from a military perspective, the huge benefit to that is that you have very responsive launch. It means that you're you don't need a massive launch site, you don't need, you know, fixed infrastructure. The idea is to be very mobile in the military. There's a
Bye.

a saying called shoot and scoot effectively. that's really kind of what we're trying to go for on on the launch side. same goes for the landing.
So as long as you have space
for the container, it's like basic container. What size of container we are talking about?

So it's forty foot long, I think that works out to I can't remember. I think it's twelve meters long.
Okay.

something like that. so it's it's the most standard size of shipping container. It's like forty foot long and then ten foot by ten foot on on the front. and then we we launch, as I mentioned, kind of vertically, we follow our hop. and then what we also kind of announced publicly is that we land on on unprepared surfaces.


