Building a rocket is hard. AST SpaceMobile thinks it's "simple."
During an hour-long event on Thursday, Abel Avellan, the founder and chief executive of the telecommunications company AST SpaceMobile, laid out his vision for developing a large rocket to launch his Bluebird satellites into orbit.
Key points
- "Of course rocket engineers are going to get mad with me, but you can simplify it as a big tank feeding engines," he said of the rocket.
- We know how to do them in composite." Read full article Comments.
He paraphrased SpaceX founder Elon Musk several times, saying, "the best part is no part." Avellan emphasized that AST has already procured engines for its proposed Blacklift rocket, asserting that engine development accounts for 80 percent of a typical rocket's development cycle.
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