Space Business Podcast #92 Wave Motion Launch Corporation

How about accessing space not with rockets, but with basically a big gun that shoots stuff into space? You may be surprised to hear that that is actually not a new idea. Our guests this week, the founders of a startup called Wave Motion are working on an updated version of it. Unsurprisingly, there is strong dual use element, too. We’ll talk about all that and more in the episode. Enjoy!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:24 Elevator Pitch

3:31 Rocket equation tyranny

5:35 Wave Motion launch tech

7:45 Historical space gun projects

12:21 "G-hardened"pPayloads

13:06 Architecture

14:46 Payload Capacity

16:35 Ground Infrastructure

18:45 Launch Cadence

21:12 Product Sequencing

27:10 Managing time and projects as a small team

29:36 Getting a Naval Research Contract

33:42 Geopolitics

35:00 Orbital launch costs

35:35 Roadmap

40:19 Origin of name

41:37 Other opportunities in space

42:45 Sci-Fi