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Back when I was flying High Power Rockets at Blackrock these guys used to come out and use our FAA waiver to do their testing, they've been doing incremental te
by Taniwha 3y ago
Back when I was flying High Power Rockets at Blackrock these guys used to come out and use our FAA waiver to do their testing, they've been doing incremental testing for more than 25 years - that they did just go off and build their big idea first (so many space companies do and most fail) but instead have worked on this bit by bit, they're definitely in this for the long term
- fransje26 3y agoGood ideas can take a lot of time, and if this very concept doesn't turn out to be useful, maybe they will learn things along the way that will have good applicability. I think it's absolutely amazing that they are persistently progressing on their idea. But if they've been at it for 25 years, it raises an the question, how have they been funding their research for so long?
- Taniwha 3y agoInitially I think it was out of their own pockets, and they had a bunch of keen volunteers, who were also launching 'pong sats' high altitude balloons for highschool science experiments. While I was around the went from launching rockets out of boxes at ground level to doing it 20 miles up. More recently I think they've had some DoD funding
- fransje26 3y agoThanks! I'm very impressed with their persistence. And I love the approach they took to progress through small, incremental changes over time.