In y c, we had three months to show a prototype for what was going to be the world's largest metal threty printer. And then we had to design some of the rocket and just show traction or get customers. We literally built a prototype dome rocket, incin and nozle for at the time, our rocket was the rockalab size o a hundred, 50 kilogram palotits since gott nearly ten times larger - that's the product we were building. i remember it completed literally a day before demo day. It showed up the morning of demo day. How big was this? It was about four and a half foot diameter and like seven feet tall.
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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