Manifest Space: Starships Are Meant to Fly with Space Capital Managing Partner Chad Anderson 4/13/23

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.4 • 139 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

SpaceX’s Starship is expected to launch its long-awaited orbital flight any day now as it awaits its launch license. Morgan sits down with Chad Anderson, an early investor in SpaceX and CEO of VC fund Space Capital to discuss the economic impact of what will be the world’s most powerful rocket ever flown. For more Manifest Space, listen and follow here: https://link.chtbl.com/manifestspace Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The long awaited, highly anticipated maiden orbital flight of SpaceX's
0:06.6	Starship is almost ready for liftoff. A 394 foot tall mega transportation system,
0:13.8	Starship is Elon Musk's vehicle to carry people and cargo to Mars.
0:18.3	It's NASA solution to land astronauts on the moon,
0:21.0	and it is poised to become the most powerful rocket ever flowed.
0:25.0	It is hands down absolutely a game changer.
0:29.0	It is a massive vehicle, fully reusable, 100 cubic meters, enormous space payload capacity, 150 tons to
0:41.6	lower orbit, and it can do all of this for essentially the the price of
0:46.7	fuel. Chad Anderson CEO of VC fund space capital is an early investor in
0:52.3	SpaceX which plans to have Starship's second stage complete
0:55.8	a full orbit of Earth before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down off the coast of Hawaii.
1:01.7	The only thing standing in the way? An FAA launch license, which
1:06.1	should come soon. On this episode Anderson breaks down the economics of
1:10.3	Starship and what it means for future investment opportunities in the space
1:14.2	sector overall. I'm Morgan Brennan and this is Manifest Space.
1:21.0	All right I think we need to start with Starship, which is poised to have its first
1:29.5	orbital test flight, really any day now. You're an early investor in SpaceX. What makes
1:35.6	Starship so meaningful? So it's very, very exciting times. It's getting very real. The Starship and Super Heavy booster are fully stacked
1:46.7	with their giant chopsticks at Starbase in Texas. It looks like they are technically ready to go and they're just now awaiting a launch license from the FAA.
1:58.0	So it looks like we might see this within the next week.
2:01.0	This will be the first orbital launch from Texas. From
2:06.2	everything I've heard it sounds like a launch license is forthcoming and of
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.