We have a pretty strong opinion when it comes to innovation. Innovation should be applied in the right domains, perhaps where operational capability is not of significant urgency or where we are exploring a scientific question that humans are not at the forefront of. Launch is a capability that humans have been capable of for decades now. The fact that Canada has not developed it does not mean that the rest of the world has not.
Our priority is to get Canadian assets into space as quickly as possible. There are lives on the line. The economy is on the line. If there's an innovative route that makes this more feasible and quicker to attain, then we will certainly take it, but there isn't. It's rocket science for a reason. The margins are extremely thin. We have a job to do.
There's room and time for innovation. Certainly, every aspect of it is, quite literally, rocket science. From printing our engines in 3-D to robotic manufacturing of our composite pressure vessels, we've been doing this for many years now. There's innovation at every step. We choose to apply it to the manufacturing and to the unit economics but not to the fundamental first principles that actually govern the rocket science behind our capability.
I think we have to be very measured in how we apply innovation. In our case, it's all about first principles and getting that capability up and in orbit as quickly as possible.
