What Casey Handmer thinks about startups

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Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and founder of Terraform Industries, which is building plant to make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. Writes about energy, space and manufacturing at caseyhandmer.wordpress.com.

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1. 28 Oct 2021

   Our readingThe incumbent space contractors will lose their business to new entrants unless they learn to make far more hardware for far less money.

   Their wordsEither the incumbent space industry adapts to Starship by finding ways to produce much more space hardware for much lower cost, or dozens of other new companies, unbound by tradition, entrenched interests, and high organizational overhead, will permanently take their business.

   ↗Starship is Still Not Understoodcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 4th of 4 in this piece