TL; DR

This is just a quick one:

Did you know we can soon ride candles to space? 🕯️🚀

Fascinating innovation case study today 🤯🤩: And a reminder that AI ain't everything. Remember space too. 🪐🛰️🧑‍🚀🙂

The story

HyImpulse pulled off the first privately-funded launch by a German-based rocket company. 🇩🇪

Notably, it's powered by paraffin, basically ... candle wax!

(Cool story! Check out the link in comments.)

[Source: Tagesschau]

The point for doing credible innovation work

For corporate innovators, it makes several key points:

🏆 Be actively "better" at something: Here, for example: Safe (won't explode 💥). High service 🗣️🧑‍🔧. And more.

💰 To be credible, earn money now. Don't just be cool: Here, near-in use cases, e.g., include scientific research.

📉 Competition and price pressure are ever-present: Here, the team cuts satellite launch cost ~ 50%. But soon, alternatives will be 90% cheaper.

Forgive me: My favorite part? My home state of Bavaria 🔷⬜️🔷⬜️, now in space too. Ok, a rocket with a flag on it. That even came back to earth. But so what. I count it. 🤪

T.I.S.C.

Footnotes

Original story

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 English auto-translation

🇩🇪 Original German

Credits

Photo by Southern Launch via Wikipedia

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