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New episode with Reditus Space out today and a very special one for sure. Big thank you to Boltline by @Stokespace for parterning with me on this video.
Reditus Space is building reusable satellites to enable a return economy from space that we are desperately lacking.
Stef Crum, CEO of @ReditusSpace joins me on The Just Rocket Science Show.
@StefReditus and I discuss ENOS and the case for reusable satellites. We get into the difference between surviving reentry and flying again, why research teams want alternatives to the International Space Station, and what it takes to make the return trip work as a business.
We also discuss Reditus's approach compared with Varda, SpaceX's Starfall, and why Stef chose Atlanta to build a reentry company.
Chapters 📌
00:00 Bring assets back
00:46 Why satellites should come home
03:43 The emerging reentry industry
05:51 How Reditus differs from Varda
07:50 Recovery, refurbishment, and reuse
11:02 Designing a satellite to fly again
13:29 Taking microgravity beyond the ISS
18:00 Boltline — episode sponsor
18:30 Finding the first customers
20:24 The business case for dedicated missions
23:19 Avoiding Space Shuttle-style refurbishment
25:19 FAA licensing and the road to reentry
30:08 SpaceX Starfall: competition or validation?
32:42 Why build a reentry company in Atlanta?
34:30 Launch access as a bottleneck
36:15 What becomes normal in 2035?
Sponsored by Boltline, helping hardware teams build and trace parts. Learn more about Boltline here: boltline.com?utm_source=just…
And if you want to book a demo with Boltline: boltline.com/demo/?utm_sourc…
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Planet just sent 25 satellites to space just this year alone. Incredible to see rate manufacturing from our friends in the city 🌉
🚀 Launch success: we’ve made contact with Pelican-12, our 25th satellite sent to orbit this year! 🛰️
Along with our earlier mission on October 1, we’ve successfully launched 4 satellite types in a single month.
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One of my favorite space deployables is this reflector here 👀
Teams encapsulated 32 payloads ahead of Falcon 9’s launch of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida → spacex.com/launches/bandwago…
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When SpaceX enters your market, do you panic—or feel validated?
For Reditus Space co-founder and CEO Stef Crum, the bigger danger is simple: “The biggest danger is nobody else cares.”
In this clip from The Just Rocket Science Show, Stef explains why SpaceX’s interest signals an opportunity worth pursuing—and why Reditus welcomes the attention.
I love this perspective!
Presented by @buildonboltline by @stoke_space
New episode with Reditus Space out today and a very special one for sure. Big thank you to Boltline by @Stokespace for parterning with me on this video.
Reditus Space is building reusable satellites to enable a return economy from space that we are desperately lacking.
Stef Crum, CEO of @ReditusSpace joins me on The Just Rocket Science Show.
@StefReditus and I discuss ENOS and the case for reusable satellites. We get into the difference between surviving reentry and flying again, why research teams want alternatives to the International Space Station, and what it takes to make the return trip work as a business.
We also discuss Reditus's approach compared with Varda, SpaceX's Starfall, and why Stef chose Atlanta to build a reentry company.
Chapters 📌
00:00 Bring assets back
00:46 Why satellites should come home
03:43 The emerging reentry industry
05:51 How Reditus differs from Varda
07:50 Recovery, refurbishment, and reuse
11:02 Designing a satellite to fly again
13:29 Taking microgravity beyond the ISS
18:00 Boltline — episode sponsor
18:30 Finding the first customers
20:24 The business case for dedicated missions
23:19 Avoiding Space Shuttle-style refurbishment
25:19 FAA licensing and the road to reentry
30:08 SpaceX Starfall: competition or validation?
32:42 Why build a reentry company in Atlanta?
34:30 Launch access as a bottleneck
36:15 What becomes normal in 2035?
Sponsored by Boltline, helping hardware teams build and trace parts. Learn more about Boltline here: boltline.com?utm_source=just…
And if you want to book a demo with Boltline: boltline.com/demo/?utm_sourc…
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Never bet against Elon
19 years ago, when my 1st company got bought, I had to decide between buying a house in Palo Alto or a McLaren F1 (best car ever imo). Was no contest. I bought F1 & a small condo that was much cheaper than the car. New Tesla Roadster will exceed all gas sports cars in every way…
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The teams at Tesla and SpaceX have given us so many WTF moments but also delivered on profitability and revenue goals. Insane 🤯
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That car at least had 120 sec hover capability.
And brb, starting a cold gas pump soon to refill all these Roadsters ⛽️
SpaceX has used thrusters to position spacecraft for decades.
Making them work in a vehicle instead of a vacuum took all-new hardware & controls.
Every usable void in the car is packed with Carbon Fiber Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs)
More compressed gas on board = more flight time
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Elon: put my car in space
Also Elon: let’s just put rockets on the car 👏
Name a car company that is more innovative than Tesla right now. The new roadster is just unbelievable.
What an awesome engineering effort by the SpaceX and Tesla teams
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It’s fascinating how little I’m using Hermes / Openclaw these days ever since Grok Bot came out. Anyone else on a similar trend?
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I love how mainstream space is becoming
Delivering sunlight to the dark side of Earth.
Co-Founder and CEO of @reflectorbital @bennbuilds on deploying large reflectors in space for search and rescue, nighttime solar power, and other critical needs.
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I love this collab between Skyroot and Reflect Orbital 👏
We’re excited to announce we’ve purchased two dedicated launches with @SkyrootA to deploy future spacecraft.
Our aim is to expand solar energy generation to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and help save lives by supporting search-and-rescue operations at night.
These launches give us assured schedule and capacity alongside our other planned launches from US sites.
Following the FCC’s approval of our first demo mission, we remain focused on engaging with key stakeholders to earn the right to scale.
Onwards!
Full announcement: prnewswire.com/news-releases…
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I'm more of an IPA guy but I can talk Space industry for sure!
Introducing The Cheeky Pint Benchmark.
We made our intern watch every episode of Cheeky Pint to bring you this breakdown of pints drank by guests to the nearest sixth.
Congratulations to @elonmusk who is currently in the lead with three full pints of Guinness.
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I love this by Alex so I build one for Hardware and AI Agents 🫱🏽🫲🏼
agentsforhardware.com/
The number 1 complaint I hear from people is they just don't know wtf to do with AI agents
They set up Grok Bot, Muse, Hark, Dots, Hermes and then do nothing with it
So I'm launching a free project: Agent Use Cases
It's a website that scans the entire internet every day and finds every use case people do with AI agents
Searches across basically every site on the internet to see what people are doing with AI agents that is making them money/providing them value
Use cases are organized by category and which agent they're used in
Gives you the use case, end result, and prompt to steal the use case
Some cool use cases I've already discovered:
1. Finding unclaimed money online
2. Negotiate phone bill down autonomously
3. Teach an agent to day trade
It's completely free. Nothing pay walled. You can just go on and discover cool new use cases
I'd recommend browsing then giving the link of this post to your agent and having it find use cases relevant to you
Sign up for the newsletter if you want 5 new use cases in your inbox every morning too
Check it out: agentusecases.ai/
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