Avio

But here it is.

They perform that work under a subcontract to Avio.

We talked to Avya last week, right? They're the solid rocket propulsion group, right? Boy, I saw somebody on LinkedIn losing their mind over that.

They're like, why in the world? This is a European talking to other Europeans.

This

guy was losing his, and he's pretty influential.

I'm not going to name him, but pretty influential, losing his mind to pushing contracts to Avio.

So, you know, here's Voyager, like, well, you know, rain and soup.

It's not a very high cadence rocket, but it is a very capable rocket.

So that's great news for Avio as well.

It gives us a potential to use that rocket more often, even though all of those are expendable rockets.

So there's still kind of a couple steps to get to the point where we can commoditize launch and bring the cost down.

They were actually one of the first to launch on that variant.

The 62 had been launching before.

The 64 has another two solid rocket boosters from Avio.

So good news for Avio, especially since they're seeing more launches from Vega.

It's got its own fleet of manned spacecraft, John, and this is the youngest one in the fleet.

Avio, CEO, decommissioning a Falcon 9.

What is the money angle of this?

All right.

Because SpaceX wants, Elon Musk wants, multiple companies able to do this stuff.

He's not interested in being the only company.

So, Avio is the Italian rocket company that makes the Vega-C rocket, and its CEO in a meeting pointed out that they have suddenly gotten a flood of new customers asking to see what their rates are and how they can fly on the Vega-C rocket.

Because they can't get flights on SpaceX anymore.

Okay.

Avio in Italy, an Italian launch company, they say they're picking up a bunch of SpaceX cast-offs.

What?

They just said, we can't do it for you.

There's too much in our schedule.

We can't fit you in.

So Avio says they're getting them.

Now, Avio launches solids.

In Europe right now, the Europeans government company Aerospace has completed four launches.

Italy's Avio has completed one.

And now I saw one.

So what we're looking at in Europe is I'm going to have to start listing all the different companies very soon instead of just Europe, because it's no longer a government operation.