[mmmeff]

Stoke employee here.

These are the hardest working and most intelligent people I’ve ever worked with. I truly believe we are about to revolutionize this industry very, very soon, at a similar-to-greater magnitude than SpaceX has managed.

If you’re at all interested in joining our mission, please get in touch. We’re still in our infancy and have plenty of seats that need butts on all sorts of teams. Even the Fusion and Data Engineering teams are growing, where prior aerospace experience is not at all required.

[echelon]

How do you compete with SpaceX? They're titans. They have the customers, contracts, and revenues, and it seems like they could build your design while still sending off tons of payloads using their existing infrastructure.

What makes your product so different, and how do you grow to anything close to their revenue and volume without them eating you first?

I ask these sincerely and in earnest! You're working on such a fascinating and awe-inspiring problem. I wish you the best of luck, because the field needs competition.

[DennisP]

Everyday Astronaut did a fantastic video of his visit to Stoke Space, that goes into a lot of detail on what makes them so interesting. It's a really nifty design, and they do the same kind of rapid development that SpaceX does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8nbSwjtEY

Given that Starship is so big, I think it could work out for Stoke to start with a smaller but fully reusable rocket, giving cheap rides to people who don't want to rideshare. Plus, governments tend to be interested in having multiple launch providers.

[sebzim4500]

Aside from anything else, if they can position themselves as a clear second in terms of space innovation then that guarantees them billions in government contracts.

The space force is willing to pay a premium to avoid anyone getting a monopoly, we see that with the ULA contracts today.