Interview: Relativity CEO Tim Ellis on 3D printing rocket ships
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- We sat down with co-founder Tim Ellis to talk about the 3D printing process, and the new space industry.
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The level of eye contact in this video is next level.
they went down to a hotel after the interview
Lol for real 😆 I would’ve broken eye contact long time ago. At least look off to the side or something! 😂
@@panzhou2803 😅
7:03 - He looked down for a moment!
Serious level gayness
This is the kind of projects that's worth working on.
I love the StarCraft reference
Why is this oddly like watching a geek tinder date?
Lol for real!
😳
This is going to totally disrupt manufacturing supply chains,I'll give it 9 to 16 years for this to do that globally.
very inspiring to see some so young leading into new ways... well done...
I'm excited for these guys. I just got an interview with the IT group and regardless of the outcome, I am seriously pulling for these guys. They have an awesome vision for space exploration and commercial development. These guys will do great things.
Absolutely amazing. All the software design, engineering and programming hours just blows me away. Talk about “getting er done.” Kudos 👏👏👏❗️
It's amazing how fast all this is going on.
They are undressing each other with their eyes.
that megaprinter has some much future development potential for part fixing and fabrication on mars and moon... just send the machines and the spools and you could build so much
'you must construct additional Pylons.'
2021 engaged.
This is exciting technology!
First, the cash register was born, obliterating the abaca and cash handling of the past. Then the cash register evolved, requiring people to work the checkout line. A few decades 1980s the bar code evolved to be standard. Now, we can pay without even swiping a card or paying in cash with a simple swipe of the of the hand. Even further, self-checkout was introduced and when I first saw one , I thought it was a joke But, self-checkout has evolved to be successful and proliferated into increasing standards and many retail stores are adopting this marvelous trend. As we become more and more automated as a society, retail competition gets more and more strained. Many local stores feel the pressure and end up closing down. Larger retail stores have immense supply chain options that can crush locality businesses as they heavy weight themselves into your cities, automating everything to the point that you don't even have to leave the house to live anymore. Everything can be ordered online and delivered in some cases cheaper than the locality stores that carry the same thing.
Oh damn not sure what I did there my bad, that was a huge rant. 😤😂 my point is automation is going to ruin many careers in the next 2 decades.
Can I know what are all the professional roles involved in this project??
After a vision or a goal is established by someone with a lot of motivation and imagination, you need engineers and more engineer's. Don't need BA (buisness adminitration) or any english teacher. After all the engineer you need, you use software for all the other stuff. Service providers for everything else. Janitor, insurance agent, accounting, and last Lawyers in that level of importance. The janitors are more important then lawyers, if you can avoid the need for a lawyer.
When do you plan the Company going public? That would be a milestone.
Stunning
I get a fuel tank, but how do they do small intricate parts like centrifugal pump blades?
smaller printer?
isNull isNotNull that’s the secret sauce :D. Maybe there’s a chemical process on their alloy or they do nonlinear 3D printing. They print concentric rings and one has a higher tolerance between when it cools down. Enough to turn, not enough to let some liquid methane through. Hard, but maybe possible?
Using desktop metal 3d printer by using dmls process.
5:50 maybe using this 5 axis milling machine
Awesome!
what's the blue wrist band employee is wearing on 6:25 ?
Its used to ground the employee so he won't accidentally destroy sensible electronics
It’s a static band. Used to ground himself so he doesn’t have the risk of damaging components with static.
we need this machine on mars
I don’t want martians building rockets to come here. We have enough problems with all these humans.
But have you tried adding small amounts of graphene to the metal wire you are using in your 3d printer to build the actual rockets?
love the arm chair materials sciencing
@@m_disulphide lmao
How cool is it.... not long ago we didn't even have 3D printers
yea like 50 years ago
@tyrese smith before 1986. Chuck Hull ... Have you ever heard of?
For me that's not too long ago (34 years)...
@@cosmosity1693 Go do your research... I bet your parents had a $1 million dollars to buy you one back in the 90s... I bet they had a computer and software also, to design the toys you played with.
It was invented buy Chuck Hull 1986 ... 34 years if you can't do the math 👈
Nice. Do they actually make ships?
Currently, I'm printing my own small liquid fueled rocket engine out of Inconel 718. I'm using an EOS M290 printer.
2 month update, hows it going
@@dalirkosimov4623 first sample is currently on the printer. Stay tuned..
@@lukasschwarzaerospace how’s it going now? Sounds pretty cool.
nice company!!!
The real deal .
It's about to get serious
I thought metal sintering 3d printing made weaker material overall as the metal powder gets pushed away by the heating laser. Did Relativity find the holy grail of metal sintering?
We'll see, right now I can't find any space oriented sources that are talking about this rocket. Only mainstream media (not that that's bad, just that it's weird that space oriented media seems uninterested). So I'm not hopefull, but happy to be proven wrong spaceX did what everyone thought was impossible not that long ago (and still pushing boundaries).
Guarantee they use fronius power sources. And if the don't. They probably should.
Why’s he staring into his soul
I thought that was glados for a sec wtf XD
I don't feel comfortable with all that eye contact.
Fragile masculinity?
@@nw5390 no that's called being uncomfortable. If it were a woman, I'd feel the same way. Too much eye contact can make some ppl feel uncomfortable.
@@nw5390 did you just learn that word? Because I saw you commented the same thing on another post that just said it was "next level". Are you throwing it around to get engagement from other users or is there another agenda? Because you can't just use any word in any conversation. That's just embarrassing.
@@DLKreationZ Life must be really hard for you if watching two people have a conversation and making eye contact is “uncomfortable.” I made that comment twice because ridiculous men like you have the audacity to make comments about two men making eye contact in 2021, on a video for a company that is literally 3D printing rocket components. Some people are just incapable of making progress. 🤦🏻♂️
@@nw5390 😂 Why are you so pressed over these comments about eye contact? (don't actually tell me. I genuinely don't care ).
This man is fan of starcraft. heje
Как тебе такое, Илон Маск?
He says, "How do you like that, Elon Musk?"
Elon's been asking for competitors for years, so he's probably glad to see one. Blue Origin, ULA, and Boeing are saddled with outdated design approaches and technical problems. Virgin Galactic looked great at first but they got hit with tragedy. Rocket Lab is launching and scaling up. China and Russia... not really sure what's going on there beyond the Falcon 9 type projects and China's Starship ripoff. So Relativity Space's stuff is looking pretty bold.
Now 2022, they don’t launch it yet.
2023
Goddamn robots, there goes my job into the history. I hope they replace Tim's job also.
There is a reason why tanks are made of sheet metal.
It is stronger, lighter, uses less material and energy, has a lot better surface finishes, is uniform thickness, does not have voids and stresses, are faster and cheaper to make, and so on.
Also the clip of the powder laser sintering printer and the part coming out of it highly polished is fake. That kind of process gives a mat pretty rough surface finish.
My understanding is that the tanks in rockets built by "traditional" methods were never made of sheet metal. The tanks were built from solid formed pieces of aluminum alloy, and a cnc machine removes material to form a latus framework inside the tank to save on weight while minimizing compromising rigidity. This leads to a lot of waste in rocketry over what normal industry has to deal with. So what may work for rockets, might not be practical for say, cars, or propane tanks.
20 years ago I thought about this idea and it's now real. I have proof of that.
When a AI will replace this young man, he will probably have less smile..
Skypper SC: Ai will never replace creativity and judgment.
@@shandor2522 Ai already create music, people faces or landscapes that didn't exist, new shapes for industry, it also decide you could be your friend on facebook, what you could like on Tiktok, play chess or over games better than humans, pilot army planes etc
Also, all your judgment can be corrupt by fakes videos created by Ai.. I'm very scared for the future...
Skypper SC: Ai music and art are crap and you should be able to tell. It can’t pilot a plane as well as a person, because that’s a ton harder than chess. As for algorithms on Facebook and the rest, they’re so stupid that they show me ads for stuff I already bought! If they had brains or common sense, the programmers would have them offer me cheaper or better alternatives!
Skypper SC : Fear not! Videos faked by software can be spotted by software too.
I like it but what is then about the moral and ethetics, cuz over 1Million people are working in this Area from supplier to rocket building. How are those Jobs are going to be replace ?
Sry for my english
They will have to adapt. Just like humanity has done before.
This is not going to replace everyone overnight so there is plenty of time to adapt just like the automobile replaced horse carriages and the light bulb replaced candles this is only going to make our lives better and people need to adapt or be out of work.
That sounds harsh but only because you have worked in a job for 30 years that doesn't give you the right to slow down technological breakthroughs.
What you are essentially saying is that you are arguing for the waste of human resources only to keep doing anything in an inefficient way to use as much human resources to build things as possible since you want to have people keeping those inefficient jobs.
The results are in. Just look at the Soviet Union and their system of having people work any job just to have them officially having a job.
Let the people adapt to the market (people exchanging goods on a voluntary basis for their own benefit) and you will see that people will find other jobs and the world will be a better place and we eventually will go to Mars.
If you try to keep technology outdated with government interventions just to keep the status quo as it is - well then we are likely going to Gulag - not Mars.