Keep pulling the thread on Tom Mueller.
Tom Mueller founded Impulse Space to develop in-space transportation systems, including vehicles for travel to the Moon and lunar landers.
Impulse Space successfully performed a rendezvous maneuver between two of its MIRA spacecraft, bringing them within 1,200 meters of each other.
The Helios vehicle is designed to transport a 4-ton satellite from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit.
When paired with a Falcon 9 rocket, the Helios vehicle can deliver a 5-ton payload to the Moon.
The Helios vehicle can increase the payload capacity to Mars by up to a factor of five.
Tom Mueller predicts the Deneb engine will likely be the highest-performing hydrocarbon engine ever flown.
Tom Mueller believes moving data centers to space is a "no-brainer" because space offers abundant power and data can be transmitted back to Earth via laser.
Tom Mueller cites predictions that in 20 to 30 years, the power demand for compute will equal all of Earth's current base power generation.
Tom Mueller suggests that humanity will need to start mining copper from the Moon and asteroids due to increasing demand from data centers and dwindling terrestrial supplies.
Tom Mueller was a founding employee at SpaceX where he led the development of propulsion systems for the Falcon rocket and Dragon spacecraft.
Impulse Space provided the entire propulsion system, including thrusters and tanks, for the VAST Space Station.
Sourcing a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) from the aerospace industry can take one to two years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit.