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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Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

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.

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

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.

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

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.

Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic· Hop Aero

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

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Yeah.

Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic· Hop Aero

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.

Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic· Hop Aero

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

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Bye.

Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic· Hop Aero

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.

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

So as long as you have space

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

for the container, it's like basic container. What size of container we are talking about?

Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic· Hop Aero

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

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Okay.

Matija Milenovic
Matija Milenovic· Hop Aero

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.

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