Threety printing is just softwar riven manufacturing and automation. If we could print an entire rocket, that would have a hundred ims fewer parts. I believe in what relativity's driving towards us well be able to build a rocket from raw material to complete in under 60 days. And then 60 days later we can do a better version. And 60 days later than that, we can doet an even better version. Bcause there's fewer constraints with treety printing, you can iterate much faster. It strikes me that there'ster some similarities here, at least on a high level, between kind of electric cars and the internal combustion engine.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Ellis, co-founder of Relativity, to talk about why he chose 3D printing (5:00), reducing the ways things can go wrong (11:25), how it works (15:00), the cost difference vs traditional manufacturing (26:05), why Mars (30:10), leaving Blue Origin to start the company (40:15), raising money and getting into Y Combinator (46:25), manufacturing on Mars (52:45), selling investors on the idea (59:00), and the impending launch (1:05:30).
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