Hi, it's great to learn something from these pitches - nice presentation and certainly a compelling niche. My questions: 1. Is anything about your system proprietary? 2. Given how potentially fruitful this area is, can you say more about the competitive landscape? 3. I know yo...

Hi Alan - Thanks for your interest in Tesseract. 1. Yes, all our thruster and propulsion system designs are proprietary. 2. Competitors break into three large categories: -Toxic chemical -Green chemical -Electric Toxic chemical propulsion (hydrazine, etc) is high performance, but has high safety/handling costs and expensive hardware. It’s dominated by large aerospace primes like Aerojet Rocketdyne. It has worked well for large GEOsats, but all the market growth is in small LEOsats, which want...

You make it clear that your green technology is currently ahead of your competitors. Does this include competitors that are not using 'green' technology? Asked another way, are there any satellite propulsion systems, no matter the fuel source, that have better efficiency, perf...

Hi Austin - Thanks for the great question and for your investment. So, there are two measures of fuel efficiency for a rocket engine in common use for this application. The first is specific impulse, measured in seconds. This tells you how much impulse you get for a given mass of fuel. State of the art toxic propellant thrusters get anywhere from 280 to 330 seconds. Our thrusters can match the specific impulse of the toxic propellant thrusters while using non-toxic propellant. The other major...

Just want to point out that Spacefab is a satellite company that just closed their WeFunder fundraise. You may want to reach out to them as a potential customer/partner.

Thanks for the heads up Craig, and for your investment. We’ll be sure to reach out.

What patents currently or will protect your technology?

Hi Edgar - We are keeping our designs trade secret, rather than using patents. This is fairly common in aerospace (SpaceX does the same). Since this isn’t the kind of product that you can just buy off a shelf, reverse engineering is less of a concern than someone using publicly available info, like a patent, and creatively engineering a way to circumvent the protected IP.

When do you anticipate having sales, and in what dollar amounts? My understanding is that it is a very very long process. Also, please describe your competitive landscape in more detail. Thank you.

Historically, this has definitely been true. Flight heritage has been king, and establishing sufficient flight heritage to meet the requirements for an operational spacecraft was a multi-year process. This is still quite true for the large geosynchronous communications satellites. However, the needs are different for the new, low Earth orbit communications constellation satellites. The operators and manufacturers in this new growth sector still want a diligent flight qualification test progra...

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