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You get a really wonderful achievement very, very quickly as illustrated by SpaceX and it's Falcon 9.

And it's a star ship super heavy.

But you also get the pressing failures because freedom means nothing's guaranteed and things can go wrong.

And so you live with that risk because it gets you benefits beyond belief.

And so these two stars momentous answer your question.

It's an orbital plug company.

They have already done about three, maybe four, maybe more demo missions.

And with some with actual customers making money, moving CubeSats after launch to a preferred orbit, delivering them using their tug.

Unfortunately though, despite these several successful missions, demonstrating that they work.

And in addition to having future missions as well, already on the schedule, they had a layoff 30% of their staff because of bootling cash reserves.

They had just under $2 million of revenue in the second quarter, which is the first time they earned more than a million in a quarter.

But they had a net loss of almost 20 million and they only have about 22 million, 23 million in cash reserves on hand.

So they're scrambling to find new sources of investment capital because it doesn't appear that the revenue they're going to be bringing in in the coming months is going to keep them above water.

This doesn't mean the company is a failure.

It means that just cash flow problems could kill it.

And that's an example of the downside of capitals.

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