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

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Relativity Space’s Tim Ellis: “Building the world’s first 3D-printed rocket”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://rss.acast.com/dannyinthevalley
• Duration: 01:07:31
• Published: 2022-01-28 04:00

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).

---

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.