Max Space expandable habitat technology could reduce costs and maximize space...in space.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 The International Space Station took 60 launches
00:16 and $100 billion to make.
00:19 Unless we make usable space and space a lot less expensive
00:22 and much, much larger, humanity's future in space
00:26 will remain limited.
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00:30 My first company, Made in Space,
00:33 pioneered the first in-space manufacturing.
00:36 But I quickly realized if we were ever
00:38 going to bring real commercialization to space,
00:40 we needed a lot more volume.
00:42 Expandables are the only comprehensive solution
00:45 that allowed this to be possible.
00:47 And no one in the world knows space expandables
00:49 better than Maxim.
00:51 I built the first two inflatable, deployable
00:54 spacecraft, Genesis 1 and 2.
00:56 And they're still circling the globe to this day.
01:00 Despite the success, we needed still a much bigger size.
01:04 We developed a proprietary expandable architecture.
01:08 It decomposes the pressure shell into discrete, uncoupled
01:11 structural elements.
01:13 It means that we can double, triple, quadruple
01:16 the size of our architecture with full predictability.
01:21 Our expandables at MaxSpace are safer and stronger
01:24 than standard metallic architecture.
01:26 We've tested our modules to the limit.
01:28 We exploded them, launched projectiles at them,
01:31 vibe tested, vacuum tested, exposed them
01:33 to space's harshest conditions.
01:36 Our MaxSpace modules are bigger, easier to manufacture,
01:39 and more scalable than other systems.
01:42 We just finished our full-fidelity ground unit
01:44 and are now building our flight unit,
01:45 which will be the largest expandable habitat
01:48 to ever go to space.
01:50 The cost of launching to space is dropping dramatically.
01:53 But without access to more volume,
01:55 the potential of space remains out of our grasp.
01:59 Our mission is to unlock a new frontier for humanity.
02:02 This will enable new drugs to be created in space,
02:04 revolutionary space farming technologies,
02:07 removing heavy industry's limitations on Earth,
02:10 and a new type of entertainment.
02:12 Everything we do stems from one goal--
02:19 more volume, less cost.
02:22 We get orders of magnitude more volume per rocket.
02:26 That means one ISS at less than 1% of the cost.
02:31 MaxSpace was created to maximize space in space in a way
02:35 that's never been possible before.
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