This is John Bachelor, Commercial Space, conversation with my good friend Bob Zimmerman, keeps the website behind the black.

About a startup in France, good for France.

This is a company that promises to resupply space stations.

There's only one right now that is imaginable, that's the ISS,

but many private space stations are planned or being

financed to be built. And this French startup now has contracts with

several of them that don't now exist. Bob asks questions of how this company has not had a maiden voyage yet, no

beta in space. And yet there are other choices. So commercial space will have many mysteries. It is the marketplace.

Bob Zimmerman on a French startup, Ray, contracts with stations that don't exist,

array.

And why not other companies like SpaceX, like Signes?

Puzzle.

Much more on Commercial Space Tonight with Bob Zimmerman. Thank you.

Yeah, this is an interesting thing.

There's a French startup called the Exploration Company that is building a cargo, unmanned cargo reusable capsule called Nix.

Well, they have now signed their fourth contract to do cargo missions to various space stations. They got one contract to go to

ISS for the European Space Agency, that's a demo mission. They've got one with

Axiom space station. They've got a three cargo mission contract with Voyager Space Star Lab station and now they

signed another contract with the company called VAST that's building the

Haven One station and that's a completely private station no government money

involved. This country now has six missions on its manifest. They haven't

flown anything yet though so it's quite interesting and I'm wondering why all

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