"What I saw at that time was, if we had a localized way to manufacture and didn't have to rely on the global supply chain during a global pandemic, the company would have done better," Taiwo tells TechCrunch. "There was this hard thing of needing to build something like 30 rockets a year for the business model to work. We were doing maybe three a year, which was never good enough."
"The reason that matters is you can decentralize manufacturing and actually get closer to building an entire product without any human intervention in the process, which is something we’re aiming for at Solideon."
Solideon co-founder and CEO Oluseun Taiwo saw firsthand the havoc such global events can wreak on the space industry. He was employed as a propulsion engineer...when the company failed to launch its LauncherOne rocket. Virgin Orbit's journey ended in May 2023.
Industries began taking a long, hard look at 3D printing as a solution to such woes. What additive manufacturing lacks in scale, it makes up for both in terms of creating specialty parts and decentralizing a manufacturing industry that is highly concentrated in a handful of locations across the globe.
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