Vast is building Haven 1, a private space station, at an unusually fast pace. The company operates a massive engineering compound with hundreds of engineers across multiple facilities, a scale and speed typically only seen from SpaceX in the commercial spaceflight industry.
You guys are so far the rare space company that you're moving quite fast. These things usually are many, many delays on the journey.
Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, our friends at SpaceX definitely set the pace for everybody else. And right now all the focus is on Haven 1, the space station being built. Cool.
Vast's engineering compound is impressive. The company has hundreds of people beavering away across multiple buildings. Everyone operating under the daunting task of making something that only massive governments have constructed before.
This is a hatch designed in-house, manufactured, assembled in-house, tested in-house. Not because we wanted to, because there's no other choice. You know, we could find an engineering company that we could pay to make a hatch for us, but they would charge us a lot more than it would cost us to do it in-house.
