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Re:Epsilon3 (YC S21) raises seed round to continue modernizing space a... on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:40PM (#30095920)

E3 is the best! Well deserved - congrats!!

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:08PM (#26308444)

Love this! Exactly!

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:01PM (#26307625)

Mars is awesome and I can't wait to go, but Earth is a great place to live :)

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:00PM (#26307603)

So exciting!

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:59PM (#26307589)

Definitely agree the first and second stages should be purpose-built!

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:30AM (#26303648)

You're exactly right, which is why we're developing our own engines. Where Starship will be the freight train, we will be the Sprinter van.

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:28AM (#26303633)

Thanks for correctly noting the tense - I have revised to future tense and apologize for any misgivings.

Starship is amazing and we are huge fans! That is an enormous vehicle though, designed for a different purpose. It is like comparing a freight train to a Sprinter van, if that makes sense.

Re:Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and fro... on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:19AM (#26303519)

Sorry for the confusion! There are plenty of space vehicles that have had "down-mass" capacity - Gemini, Soyuz, Apollo, Dragon, Shuttle, X-37B, etc. They are all spacecraft, although Shuttle is a close in-between. The distinction here is this is a true upper stage, which can also return items from orbit.

We are looking to serve a complementary market to New Glenn and are not planning to fly on that vehicle.

Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and from space

Posted by alapsa on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:11AM
from the self-post dept.

Hi HN, Andy and Tom here from STOKE (http://www.stoke-space.com). We aim to deliver satellites directly to their final orbit at 20x lower cost. We’ll do this using 100% reusable rockets designed to fly daily.Even the most advanced rockets today reuse only part of the vehicle (the first stage) a handful of times (the record number is 8). The upper stages of all launch vehicles are thrown away...

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