It is generally agreed that to make humanity a genuinely spacefaring species, the cost to lift mass to lower the orbit must be reduced by orders of magnitude compared to current systems. The original orbital launch systems were derived from ICBMs, characterized by high acquisition costs, complex engineering and huge technical institutional overheads, maintaining a very modest lunch cadence.
Today, private corporations are advancing state-of-the-art rocket technology and dropping launch costs while improving reliability enough to make regular flights to orbit possible almost on airliner-like schedules.
Engineer and co-founder of *Phantom Space*, *Jim Cantrell*, describes Phantom’s approach to better access to orbit with Jim Anderton.
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