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Aug 24, 2026
Robotics and the future of on-orbit labor
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8:36Ethan BarajasGUEST
We talk about very exquisite satellites that are half a billion dollars.
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8:40Ethan BarajasGUEST
Is it more useful to upgrade LRUs, line replacement units, and their electronics? Or is it more intelligent for us to replace this entire vehicle and resend it? And so in a lot of different use cases, there's a clear value prop for that upgrading and replacement of fuel and sensors on these buses than launching an entire bus-sized, like actual school bus-sized vehicle back into geo.
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9:04Ethan BarajasGUEST
And so when we look at our mission to the ISS Joyride 1 and the data that we can collect and our timelines from when we imagine working on the EVA robots, it's in the next few years.
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9:14Mike GrussHOST
Let me ask quickly on Joyride 1, what's the schedule there? Launch in early 2027 aboard? Help me out there on the details.