Why Relativity Space is next-level SpaceX, according to CEO Tim Ellis
Move over, Elon Musk. Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis on becoming the next great commercial space-launch company. Imagine waking up one morning and telling your parents you will one day launch the future of humanity in space. Which is perhaps what Elon Musk might have done at some point. And though Musk is currently out there on his own launching rockets for NASA, booking space tourists like Yusaku Maezawa, and thinking about Martian terraforming and beyond, there’s a new kid in the cosmos and his name’s Tim Ellis, CEO of Relativity Space. CEO Tim Ellis Part-backed by Horizon Ventures, the private investment arm of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, Relativity may yet become the next great commercial space-launch company. As space rapidly fills with infrastructure, demand for such service is outpacing supply. But, where Musk has championed and pioneered the notion of reusable rockets, thus lowering the astronomical costs of space launches and Travel , Ellis has gon...