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A Rocket Veteran Plots a Cheaper Path Back to Space
Phantom Space wants to do with rockets what Henry Ford’s production methods did for the auto business in the early 1900s.
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A veteran rocket designer and former SpaceX engineer is forming a small-satellite launch company based on the concept that modern rockets should be produced less like custom-made vehicles and more like automobiles and airplanes.
Phantom Space Corp., founded by Jim Cantrell, one of SpaceX’s first employees and previously an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aims to build and launch hundreds of rockets to lift into orbit an expected flood of smaller satellites in need of quick and cheap access to space.