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Speaker 1: Move aside Rocket Lab, because New Zealand's next next big

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Speaker 1: space company might actually be a company called Dawn Aero Space.

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Speaker 1: You might remember these guys. We spoke to them a

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Speaker 1: few months ago when they were hoping to get permission

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Speaker 1: to fly at supersonic speeds. Well, they got the permission

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Speaker 1: and they have flown at the supersonic speeds and this

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Speaker 1: makes them the first civil aircraft to break the sound

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Speaker 1: barrier since the Concord. Chief Executive Stefan powellers with us. Now, hey, Stephan, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's it going good? Thank you? Did you hear the boom?

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Speaker 2: No, you don't actually hear the boom because.

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Speaker 3: It's unlike a like the Concord, which would break the

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Speaker 3: sound barrier while going like dead horizontal, We do it

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Speaker 3: going vertical.

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Speaker 2: We're going straight up, so that boom goes straight up

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Speaker 2: to space, so you don't actually hear it on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a bummer, isn't it. But I mean because

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Speaker 1: I suppose it doesn't affect the neighbors, and you know

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Speaker 1: how neighbors are in this country. So that's good. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So now that you've done it and you've got up

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Speaker 1: to I think it was twenty five k's, which is

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Speaker 1: the limit of what you can do. What do you

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Speaker 1: do now?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean this really proves to you know, all

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Speaker 2: of our key stakeholders, our customers, our investors and critically

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Speaker 2: CIA that we can do this, and we can do

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Speaker 2: it reliably, we can do it safely. We're not We're

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Speaker 2: talking about the vehicle dynamics, you know, going through transonic

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Speaker 2: that all works, so that sets the stage for us

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Speaker 2: to be able to extend that certification ultimately up to

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Speaker 2: above space, so that this can be the first vehicle

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Speaker 2: to fly to space multiple times a day.

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Speaker 1: And when are you planning to be flying multiple times

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Speaker 1: a day?

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Speaker 2: You're not talking to publicly about timeframes because it's always

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Speaker 2: hard to predict exactly. But we'll be building the next

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Speaker 2: generation vehicle, which will look identical, but it's much more

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Speaker 2: optimal in performance, but more fuel on board, higher thrust

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Speaker 2: engine that will allow us to get to space twice

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Speaker 2: in a day. We'll be building that vehicle next year.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff. And the commercial clients are they paying a lot.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're certainly paying. They're certainly very interested in being

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Speaker 2: able to use this vehicle for all kinds of thing

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Speaker 2: things like microgravity experiments testing out satellite technology, are doing

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Speaker 2: atmospheric experimentation. We're kind of just discovering what can you

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Speaker 2: actually do with this new class of ultra high performance aircraft.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's something that humanity has never really been

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Speaker 2: able to do reliably, is access you know, above the atmosphere,

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Speaker 2: but below where satellites fly. So it's really really unique

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Speaker 2: capability with lots of commercial applications.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, Hey mate, best of luck with that

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Speaker 1: and thanks for talking to us about it. Steffan Powell

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