Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Reaction Dynamics makes satellite deployment faster, cheaper, and more efficient. 🌌

21 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Two speakers discuss how Reaction Dynamics deploys satellites faster and cheaper. Satellites launch individually with up to 200 kg capacity, or smaller payloads can ride along. The conversation explores whether firing payloads against each other creates additional thrust.

People are going to be on that thing? So to start, it will only be payloads. Do they all bounce off each other? Like, if you shoot 6 at once in 6 different directions, do you get that thrust off of each of them?
So do you mean the satellites or the rockets?
Your rockets. If they're stuck together and you shoot them against each other, wouldn't they go a lot faster?
Okay, that's an interesting question. Yeah, Tim's a character, but most people who have an incredible amount of success are. It takes somebody who's got vision to really pick and choose those companies that will succeed, and he's got that in him. They are housed and they will launch individually. Within each satellite, we have up to 200 kilograms of capacity. Sometimes that's just one satellite. Other times, if for example payloads are only 50 kilograms, we can launch 4 payloads at a time, and that's called rideshare.