Why is a satellite like a race car? @FortuneMagazine's @agarfinks has the answer in her recent piece on Apex’s partnership with @ToyotaRacingUSA. Leveraging the same precision manufacturing practices used to craft world-class racing engines, Toyota is helping Apex scale by mass-producing precision-machined parts for our Apex satellite platforms. “We have to think about manufacturing from the perspective of not just how we build something, but how we build it when we’re factoring in all the variables that matter—quality, speed of production, and affordability,” said @IanCinnamon. “Too often we say, ‘Oh, we can build a bunch.’ Well, how long does it take? Or, ‘We can build them really cheap.’ Okay, but are they high-quality? We need to find the middle ground between those core elements. And if we can do that, the U.S. manufacturing base can really fall into its stride.” Read the full story here: