The Future of Spaceflight, and Why We Built Stoke

STOKE - When Tom Feldman and I founded Stoke in 2019, there were already something like 150 rocket startups. On the surface, the last thing the world needed was company number 151.  

But then we did the math.

What we found gave us enormous conviction that 1) the future of space will be defined by fully and rapidly reusable rockets that operate with aircraft-like frequency, and 2) the time to build them is now. Five years later, that conviction has only deepened. The partially reusable rockets of today are an important stepping stone, but they are not the destination. Any launch system that wasn’t designed from the outset for full and rapid reuse will soon be left behind.

Surprisingly, we couldn’t find another startup building a credible path to this future.  

Somebody had to do it, so why not us? 

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