I think I'm the only non billion-year
that's doing this
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I mean you've got Jeff Egon Richard
Branson you got Ilan and then me I mean
how is it that a guy from the bottom of
New Zealand that was once coined by Mick
Jagger as the the bumhole
of the planet can launch stuff into
orbit how crazy is that Peter Beck
really likes rockets come on Arthur
Valentin Bob Allen liquid rocket engines
cards the Shia challenge of the
engineering the problems you have to
solve this kind of one gets me going so
much so that he started rocket lab a
small new space startup often living in
the shadow of the bigger companies like
SpaceX but Peters mission is a little
closer to home than Mars with rocket lab
Peter aims to make launching rockets
into orbit as common as picking up your
mail the most important thing that can
be done in space right now is to make
space the domain that everybody can
access we started on day one with an
absolute clean sheet paper and you know
we wrote two requirements on that piece
of paper and that was must be launched
really really frequently and must be
affordable but the most important thing
here is getting to orbit like a freight
train just get into orbit so so
frequently that you can use space as a
domain to build commercial
infrastructure so that's things like put
it internet in space so that every
square inch of the planet has internet
and you know that's that's truly
game-changing for developing countries
Peter always knew he'd do this for a
living one day even when his guidance
counselor disagreed
my parents were called into the school
you know they believed in my aspirations
for a career we're totally ridiculous
and unachievable and that I should
pursue a trade in in plumbing because I
was quite good at my hands
Peter ignored this advice and instead
built this a rocket bike I did about a
hundred miles an hour in the nights of
the mall it's an amazing feeling
actually it's an ever increasing
acceleration so where you point is where
you go and you just hold on two decades
later Peter has a staff of over 200 in
rocket lab is five launches away from
being in the black we we successfully
completed all our test flights and we're
now into full commercial operations
where we're trying to get to what
launched one a month this year and then
next year we'll try and get to one every
two weeks and then we'll keep doubling
down on that rocket labs secret
innovation they were the first to
replace aluminum with stronger and
lighter materials like carbon fiber as
well as employ radical production
techniques like 3d printing we've got a
Factory full of rockets and we started
3d printing engines when people were
making bottle openers and cats
prosthetics nowadays if you look at all
the startup space companies they're all
printing their rocket engines and they
have one more little secret location the
great thing about New Zealanders it was
a it's a small island nation in the
Milano where now that launch site is the
only private orbital launch site in the
entire world and it has more launch
availability than America does as a
country you know the biggest thing to be
done in space is yet to even be thought
of because nobody's had access to the
domain to be able to experiment and
innovate we're just getting started the
definition of success for me is to
receive a text message from one of my
staff saying hope you enjoyed your lunch
Pete by the way another one launched
another one on the pad we can get to
that point where launches that
commonplace they're uninteresting and
that frequent in the world that we all
live in is a definitely an incredibly
different place I certainly have better
place it would be a total fail if it's a
worse place
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