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The Times Tech Podcast

Relativity Space’s Tim Ellis: “Building the world’s first 3D-printed rocket”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Interviews, News, Silicon Valley, Business News, Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analysis, Ai, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

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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