CEO for starting turbulent missiles cast a shadow in the competition

It is not a secret that there is a lot of great vanity in the space space industry. While the main players usually refrain from roasting their competitors in public places, this was not the case at Berkeley’s Space Symposium for this year. At least, the CEO of ASTRA Chris Kemp.

During an interview with this event on September 5, Kemp gave some serious shadow in Spacex, Blue Origen, Firefly and Rocket Lab, Ars Technica Reports. While some of his statements spoke to the legitimate shortcomings between his competitors, they came out of cruelty, especially given the history of ASTRA for Financial problems and Record of a rock launch.

Kemp participated in the founding of ASTRA in 2016 alongside CTO Adam London. Five of the seven operating missile launches of the company resulted between September 2020 and June 2022. retired “3” missile in August 2022, and by March 2024, the company’s evaluation decreased from $ 2.6 billion to about $ 11.25 million, Reuters I mentioned. Kemp and London Take the private company In 50 cents per share to avoid bankruptcy.

Now, ASTRA focuses on the development of Rocket 4, Targeting Summer 2026 for its opening launch. This new chapter is likely to help renew its youth and capital, but the recent notes of KEMP may create more problems for the troubled company. Here is what he said about four of his biggest competitors.

Gizmodo communicates with each of them to comment, but he did not receive a response by publishing time. You can see the full Kimp talk here.

Spacex

In his closing observations, Kemp tried to appeal to potential trainees in the public by saying that Astra provides a better work environment than StarBase in SACEX in South Texas.

“It is more fun than Spacex, because we are not on the borders of Mexico as they will cut off your head if you take a left beam by mistake,” he said. “You don’t have to live in a trailer. We do not make you work for six and a half days a week, 12 hours a day. It is appreciated if you are not required.”

Yixes. Until this moment, Kemp has generally spoke with respect for Spacex, which led to fair comparisons between the ELON Musk approach and its panel. To end this sour observation, I felt an unnecessary blow. Needless to say, the head of trainees were not beheaded from Spacex.

Blue origin

At the beginning of his speech, Kembe described the convergence of innovation in the space industry today: the failed recurring design method and the long -term development of one missile.

He said: “I call it the blue origin and people, as tens of billions of dollars spend, and within 20 or 30 years it builds a missile and operates the first time.” “This is very important if what you are trying to improve is (that) that works the first time. As for the program run by the nation -state or billionaire that does not want a missile to explode, this is wise. But it takes decades and costs tens of billions of dollars to conduct the analysis and test.”

ASTRA, such as Spacex, is used, repetitive design. While Keteb is right to say that Jeff Bezos, the founder of blue origin, followed the most traditional approach, neither the new sponsor nor New Glenn costs “tens of billions” of dollars. What’s more, the ASTRA ROCKET 3 launch compared to New Shepherd.

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In 2021, ASTRA Fell A deal with Firefly Competition to buy Reaver engines. None of the companies ever decided to publicly, but during Kembi’s talk, he was keen to discuss it.

“We have a new missile engine. There is a company called Firefly. They have been announced,” he said, with sarcastic laughter. “We bought the engine from them, and the garbage was. We were literally unable to get the same engine twice from them. None of them match CAD. If you were in engineering, you know that he was not only working. So we had to start from scratch with this engine.”

In response to the KEMP comments, a Firefly Ars spokesman told the Firefly Reaver engines to run our alpha launch vehicle to the orbit several times and perform it without a defect. In addition, the patented technology used in our family from our engines was more than a thousand times.

Firefly did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.

Missile laboratory

In late 2010, while ASTRA was developing Rocket 3, Rocket Lab was racing to build the electron, a small competitor missile. This paves the way for fierce competition that is still standing today, but relatively, Kembe’s notes towards Rocket Lab were light at Berkeley.

Kemp admitted that both missile 3 and the electron were not large enough to serve the booming satellite market. He said about rockets 3: “This small missile is very small. Likewise, the electron.”

This may be true, but Electron’s launch record is far away It exceeds That missile 3 continues to do so Generate Great revenues for the missile laboratory.

Among his diverse statements, Keteb gave an insight into the past, the present and the future. Whether his bark will stand in front of his bite, it is still seen with the upcoming 4 missiles.