Why Hop Aero tests in Oklahoma

I think SpaceX have actually done a tremendous job kind of breaking it down between Hawthorne and then it kind of now moving more towards Boca Chica and initially McGregor for their engine testing. So thankfully there's a lot to be learned from again, we stand on the shoulders of giants. We we can definitely see what

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things did they do well and what what are things that we can improve on.

Actually, my understanding is that you don't target to be reusable immediately from the get go, right? Like it's like a breakdown. And as one of the first milestones to that is like, you just want to make sure that this goes and afterwards in the next phase that you will be looking to that or.

I yeah, I won't go into detail on that one, but it's like reusability

Okay.

is definitely reusability is definitely like one of the the goals we have for the immediate future.

Okay, okay. And in the very early days, whatever you build and you test, isn't it much more ideal to be in one place? I was wondering when I saw the map and then where you yellow box the locations, why wouldn't you guys stay all together in one place?

so the biggest reason is that it's like engines are very loud and they can like obviously there's a lot of risks of like explosions and things like that. So you need to be in a place where it's a controlled environment and it's safe and you don't have a lot of kind of population centers nearby that could potentially obviously like we don't want to disturb them, but we also want to make sure that we're in a place where they're not gonna disturb us by complaining about noise and things like that. So the only neighbors that we have to worry about right now is a ranch of cows. It's next next to our our telescite and they're, you know, really cute black cows.

and so that was the like we we've been in Oklahoma at the spaceport there since I think November, December of last year. so in parallel to building our rocket, we've also been building out the the the kind of infrastructure at the spaceport there at our test site. and

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so we were we picked Oklahoma because it's a it's a phenomenal state. Firstly I feel like it's it's my second home at this point. I I go there a lot, my co founder goes there even more. but we we were able to get a lot of support from from people there at on day one.

we looked at a bunch of other states. We didn't feel that same level of interest from them. We didn't feel the same level of opportunities that they could provide us compared to Oklahoma. and even exactly it's just,