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Title: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 06/15/2017 03:29 am
These are some upcoming SpaceX related hearings/interviews/conference appearances/keynote speeches.  I wanted to try keeping a list of them in one place so that we have an easy reference.  If you run across any more please put a note in this thread.



Elon Musk,  SpaceX’s Chief Engineer, will participate in a fireside chat with Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, during the Air Force Association’s 2020 Air Warfare Symposium, Feb. 26 – 28.

Elon will have a Keynote talk at SatShow (SATELLITE) 2020. March 9 at 4 PM local, 8PM UTC (DST just kicked in the day before!).  https://www.satshow.com/elon-musk/ (https://www.satshow.com/elon-musk/)



NOTE: for talks that are not specific to SpaceX see: Upcoming Spaceflight Related Talks/Conferences (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43382)

past talks:
Thu Jul 13, 2017    9am EDT   Tim Hughes  Senate Hearing (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=3E9B58AC-1445-4117-86F5-2C2F8A377A81)
     Reopening the American Frontier: Promoting Partnerships Between Commercial Space and the U.S. Government to Advance Exploration and Settlement
Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:30p EDT Elon Musk  ISS R&D Conference (http://www.issconference.org/) speech
Sat Oct 14, 2017 Elon Musk AMA on Reddit (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43980.0;topicseen)
Sep 29, 2017      Elon Musk, IAC 2017 in Adelaide (2pm local, 4:30am UTC, 12:30am EDT) (thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43839.0))
Oct 11, 2017       Gwynne Shotwell: Road to Mars (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gwynne-shotwell-road-to-mars-tickets-37968773624) @ Stanford (7pm PDT)
Wed. Oct 25, 2017, 10am EDT : Patricia Cooper: Senate hearing on commercial satellite industry (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/10/the-commercial-satellite-industry-what-s-up-and-what-s-on-the-horizon) (thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44032.0))
CNBC Interview with Gwynne May 22, 2018 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45719.0)
May 24, 2018 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45729.msg1824988#msg1824988)  Tom Mueller keynote at ISDC
Aug 13, 2018 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43154.msg1846640#msg1846640)  SpaceX will have Commercial Crew press conference at Hawthorne, many media members will be attending
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 06/15/2017 04:31 am
+ Sept. 25-29: Elon Musk; International Astronautical Conference 2017
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Jim on 06/15/2017 02:53 pm
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 06/15/2017 03:18 pm
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?

I personally am most interested in SpaceX, so I am willing to spend a little time to periodically update the list in the top post of this thread.  If someone is willing to do that for a broader range of companies feel free to create a thread in the appropriate section.  We could also just create a thread where people can post notices for such events if no one wants to curate a list for it.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eagandale4114 on 06/15/2017 07:38 pm
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?

Speaking of others, Virgin Galactic will be talking at the Spaceport America Cup next week. I can record it or post any major highlights from the event.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Lars-J on 06/15/2017 11:14 pm
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?

Perhaps I'm blind, but isn't this thread in the SpaceX general forum?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Semmel on 06/16/2017 08:06 am
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?

You know, I started a thread for one of these events once:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42898.0

It was attended primarily by Boeing, LM, Orbital, etc. Unfortunately, it was not worth it. They work under completely unrealistic premises.

ULA for instance would be much, much, much, ...., much more interesting if they could keep the revenue they make and invest it in R&D, new rockets, reusability, IVF, etc., I come back to that at the end of my post. SpaceX landed and relaunched a first stage of a EELV class rocket within 15 years of its existence. I guess they started with 200M or thereabouts and got one funding round of about 1B. Look what they have done with that investment. Fuck launch price, its not important. What is important is technological development and advancement in rocket technology. In the same time, Boeing, LM, ULA made what? A new launch vehicle, not much different from what we had in the 70s. A bit more effective, but basically nothing in terms of advancement of technology. Taking this past experience, think of what SpaceX might be able to do in the next 15 years. And what ULA might achieve in the next 15 years. ULA might have the Vulcan, which is just an other iteration of the 70s technology, a bit more efficient, a bit cheaper. They might have IVF which is quite a substantial advancement. But thats it. By the same optimism, SpaceX on the other hand might do what Shuttle promised but never delivered: full and rapid reusability. Compare ITS with Orion and tell me whats more interesting.

Not everything is sunny on the SpaceX side for sure. But when looking at Boeing, LM, Orbital, ULA.. its like looking someone developing more efficient means to stand still. I am not surprised that SpaceX gets such an audience and old space doesnt. Imagine what ULA could be now if they were allowed to keep the revenue they made. Imagine, we would probably have IVF by now. Vulcan would probably be redesigned to be fully reusable or would be on a track to achieve it. ULA would be a stunning company to look at, hear talks from their engineers and get excited by the future they want to achieve.

And before you mention it, thats not bashing ULA. Its an observation and an answer to your question: Why does nobody cares about ULA? Basically, it boils down to: Driving technology to new heights or be a cash cow. Pick one.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: oldAtlas_Eguy on 06/16/2017 05:16 pm
I find the pair of meetings on June 21 and 22 interesting for the main reason of the topic for the June 21 meeting and that the June 22 appearance is likely to be a SpaceX sided take away about the Senate Hearing and how that will affect SpaceX Exploration and Settlement goals.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 06/16/2017 05:46 pm
This thread is really meant to be a place to aggregate notices of upcoming talks, not a place to detail/praise the company vision.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meekGee on 06/17/2017 01:27 am
This thread is really meant to be a place to aggregate notices of upcoming talks, not a place to detail/praise the company vision.
Sorry...  :)
(removed it)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 06/20/2017 10:28 pm
Tweet from Jeff Foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/877277842085687297):
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Senate Commerce Committee announces that tomorrow’s space hearing has been postponed until after the July 4 recess.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 07/06/2017 09:53 pm
Tweet from Jeff Foust: (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/883050444662206464)
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The Senate space subcmte has rescheduled its hearing on public-private partnerships for July 13. One change: Tim Hughes speaking for SpaceX.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mikelepage on 07/14/2017 11:57 am
So there's these tweets:

Erik Cleven‏ @VoltzCoreAudio  Jul 11: I know some of us sound like a broken record by now, but can we get a real estimate on when the big Mars update will be?

Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @VoltzCoreAudio @DJSnM
Maybe the upcoming IAC in Adelaide
2:44 PM - 11 Jul 2017

Adelaide is the capital of the state of South Australia. Also don't forget that Tesla has recently won a contract to build the world's biggest battery storage facility in South Australia, in the next few months before Australian summer starts in December.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40527784

A happy confluence of events for Elon Musk.  If I had to bet money on it, I'd say the next ITS announcement will almost certainly be at IAC 2017.  He can come to present, then get an update on the battery plant rollout while he's here.

I was thinking about going to IAC anyway, maybe I can report for NSF the way Helodriver did last year..? :D
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: dlapine on 07/14/2017 02:53 pm
The committee hearing was held- https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement), but there are no video or transcripts of the session.  Does anyone have links to them?

Additionally, Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/spacex-urges-lawmakers-to-commercialize-deep-space-exploration/ (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/spacex-urges-lawmakers-to-commercialize-deep-space-exploration/) put up an article on the hearing discussing Tim Hughes' prepared remarks.

Ars seemed to think that SpaceX was agitating for the establishment by NASA of a Super Heavy Lift equivalent of Commercial Crew program, in recognition of the Falcon Heavy, New Glenn and other commercial space developments of large lifters.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Navier–Stokes on 07/14/2017 03:11 pm
The committee hearing was held- https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement), but there are no video or transcripts of the session.  Does anyone have links to them?
Here's the video (courtesy of u/SpaceKSCBlog on r/SpaceX):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onqPiXRLFMI
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Rebel44 on 07/14/2017 03:13 pm
The committee hearing was held- https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement), but there are no video or transcripts of the session.  Does anyone have links to them?

Additionally, Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/spacex-urges-lawmakers-to-commercialize-deep-space-exploration/ (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/spacex-urges-lawmakers-to-commercialize-deep-space-exploration/) put up an article on the hearing discussing Tim Hughes' prepared remarks.

Ars seemed to think that SpaceX was agitating for the establishment by NASA of a Super Heavy Lift equivalent of Commercial Crew program, in recognition of the Falcon Heavy, New Glenn and other commercial space developments of large lifters.

Video is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onqPiXRLFMI
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 07/14/2017 04:28 pm
The committee hearing was held- https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/7/reopening-the-american-frontier-promoting-partnerships-between-commercial-space-and-the-u-s-government-to-advance-exploration-and-settlement), but there are no video or transcripts of the session.  Does anyone have links to them?

They changed the URL when the first meeting was cancelled:
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=3E9B58AC-1445-4117-86F5-2C2F8A377A81 (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=3E9B58AC-1445-4117-86F5-2C2F8A377A81)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: WTF on 07/14/2017 07:33 pm
Tim Hughes ... Link to transcript of his statement:

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/8a62dd3f-ead6-42ff-8ac8-0823a346b926/7F1C5970AE952E354D32C19DDC9DDCCB.mr.-tim-hughes-testimony.pdf
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: HVM on 07/15/2017 06:43 pm
NGA 2017 SUMMER MEETING — Introducing the News Chairs Initiative "Ahead of the Curve"

Started streaming 1 hour ago

Closing Plenary Introducing the News Chairs Initiative "Ahead of the Curve"

Speaker: Elon Musk
Governor Terry McAuliffe, Virginia, Chair
Governor Brian Sandoval, Nevada, Vice Chair

Keynote Speaker:
• Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-A797y8dA
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rockets4life97 on 07/15/2017 08:04 pm
The most SpaceX relevant part of the NGA talk today was about COTS and government contracting. I don't think there is any news here about Elon being against cost-plus and for milestone based contracting.

Another somewhat relevant bit was a discussion of regulations. Elon is for the right amount of regulation (my paraphrase) and thinks regulations should be reviewed a regular intervals to keep them relevant and at the right amount.

Most of the rest of the talk was about Tesla, sustainable energy, and artificial intelligence. Interesting (particularly the AI piece), but not directly relevant to SpaceX.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 07/17/2017 12:49 pm
There was another thread on the NGA talk that's disappeared, I suspect as too far off topic. Anyway here's just the main space bit of Elon's Q&A (only other space bit was brief mention of making life multi-planetary):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRgzd-nHcxU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRgzd-nHcxU)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: JasonAW3 on 07/17/2017 04:01 pm
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?

Perhaps I'm blind, but isn't this thread in the SpaceX general forum?

actually, I'm kind of with Jim on this.

     It would be nice if we had both a monthly Launch List on the main page as well as a list of upcoming conferences and who would be at them.  (This could also give some of us advance enough notification to arrange to attend these meetings as well).
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: clongton on 07/17/2017 04:10 pm
Where is the list for Orbital, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others?

Perhaps I'm blind, but isn't this thread in the SpaceX general forum?

actually, I'm kind of with Jim on this.

     It would be nice if we had both a monthly Launch List on the main page as well as a list of upcoming conferences and who would be at them.  (This could also give some of us advance enough notification to arrange to attend these meetings as well).

Perhaps so, but not here. Did you notice the heading? [SpaceX Vehicles and Missions/SpaceX General Section] This thread is located specifically in the SpaceX-only area. Lists of such events for companies other than SpaceX would be off topic.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Chris Bergin on 07/17/2017 10:28 pm

 
Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:30p EDT Elon Musk  ISS R&D Conference (http://www.issconference.org/) speech



Do we know if this will be webcast? I've seen recorded videos from the 2016 event, but I can't remember if it was livestreamed, etc.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Callezetter on 07/17/2017 10:41 pm

 
Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:30p EDT Elon Musk  ISS R&D Conference (http://www.issconference.org/) speech



Do we know if this will be webcast? I've seen recorded videos from the 2016 event, but I can't remember if it was livestreamed, etc.

According to the frontpage at https://www.issconference.org/ the conf will be livestreamed starting tomorrow morning at 8am. And last year they streamed the whole event, including luncheons like Elon will do. So lets hope!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Lar on 07/18/2017 11:15 pm
I'll look into setting up a more general thread for upcoming events.
So it was written, and so it was... 
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43382
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 07/22/2017 12:43 am
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Twitter Question: Should we expect you at IAC 2017 in Adelaide then?

Elon Musk reply (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/888555494763241472): Yes, I postponed publishing in order to present the updated interplanetary rocket & spaceship design in Adelaide. Will be on the final day.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 07/22/2017 12:46 am
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Twitter Question: Should we expect you at IAC 2017 in Adelaide then?

Elon Musk reply (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/888555494763241472): Yes, I postponed publishing in order to present the updated interplanetary rocket & spaceship design in Adelaide. Will be on the final day.

Might wanna add the article he retweeted for context
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 09/05/2017 12:48 am
Elon's talk in Adelaide on Sept. 29 is at 1400 local, 0430 UTC, 0030 EDT.

http://www.iac2017.org/iac-2017-news/news-items/LockheedMartinandSpaceXinMissionstoMars (http://www.iac2017.org/iac-2017-news/news-items/LockheedMartinandSpaceXinMissionstoMars)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 09/25/2017 11:22 pm
Shotwell will be speaking at Stanford, hosted by the Stanford Student Space Initiative. I believe the event is public, so long as you RSVP. Should generate some intelligent questions, at a minimum :)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gwynne-shotwell-road-to-mars-tickets-37968773624
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/28/2017 12:08 am
Gwynne  Shotwell spoke at MIT today, some interesting tweets start at: https://twitter.com/charlottelowey/status/913136268954996736 (https://twitter.com/charlottelowey/status/913136268954996736)

(Exciting news about S2 'soft' water landing already captured here (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43374.msg1727643#msg1727643).)

I was also particularly struck by:

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Charlotte L‏ @charlottelowey 3h3 hours ago

Shotwell on @SpaceX work on nuclear propulsion: "We're actually trying to get hold of some nuclear material - it's hard, by the way"

https://twitter.com/charlottelowey/status/913145922976190464 (https://twitter.com/charlottelowey/status/913145922976190464)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: IntoTheVoid on 09/28/2017 11:53 pm
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This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk will provide an update to his 2016 presentation regarding the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.

http://www.spacex.com/mars

Quote from: SpaceX
You can watch the talk live on this page on Thursday, September 28th at 9:30 p.m. PDT,
or Friday, September 29th at 2:00 p.m. ACST in Adelaide, Australia

I hadn't heard that we could watch.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 09/29/2017 12:14 am
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This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk will provide an update to his 2016 presentation regarding the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.

http://www.spacex.com/mars

Quote from: SpaceX
You can watch the talk live on this page on Thursday, September 28th at 9:30 p.m. PDT,
or Friday, September 29th at 2:00 p.m. ACST in Adelaide, Australia

I hadn't heard that we could watch.

From what I understand, Musk's talk is literally the only thing at IAC 2017 that will be livestreamed.

Pretty subpar for such a large group, but IAC 2017 rationalized it on Twitter by arguing that people wouldn't buy tickets to come if plenaries were streamed. Rather discounts the benefits of networking and technical sessions, if you ask me, but c'est la vie.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/04/2017 03:37 pm
Not quite a talk, but Gwynne Shotwell is testifying (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43259.msg1731555#msg1731555) at the first meeting of the National Space Council tomorrow. Blue Origin and SNC also testifying.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Craig_VG on 10/06/2017 07:28 pm
Steve Jurveston is speaking at the Economists's inaugural global Space Summit on Nov 9th at 10:15am PST - he usually has an interesting tidbit or two to drop.

https://events.economist.com/events-conferences/americas/the-new-space-age/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/12/2017 03:24 pm
It's been mentioned in a couple of threads, but thought a pointer here might be helpful:

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When will the BFR reddit Ama be?
https://twitter.com/RITSPEX/status/918313723567144961 (https://twitter.com/RITSPEX/status/918313723567144961)

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This weekend
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/918314470048382977 (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/918314470048382977)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Geron on 10/13/2017 05:39 pm

 
Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:30p EDT Elon Musk  ISS R&D Conference (http://www.issconference.org/) speech



Do we know if this will be webcast? I've seen recorded videos from the 2016 event, but I can't remember if it was livestreamed, etc.

According to the frontpage at https://www.issconference.org/ the conf will be livestreamed starting tomorrow morning at 8am. And last year they streamed the whole event, including luncheons like Elon will do. So lets hope!

Link to talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqYPmshyCDU
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: sanman on 10/14/2017 07:28 am
Elon Musk is doing a Reddit Q&A this weekend - anybody going to show up for it?

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/elon-musk-will-chat-big-rocket-plans-spacex-fans-reddit/


If others do show up, then would anyone mind asking about SpaceX and the USAF RFP for its new launch vehicle? I'm really interested in knowing whether SpaceX will propose BFR for that.

Also, I wanted to hear further from Musk on Gwynne Shotwell's comments that The Boring Company could help in the establishment of off-world infrastructure on the Moon and Mars.

Can anybody else think of useful questions to ask?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/14/2017 02:29 pm
This thread is not for compiling questions for an upcoming talk.  If you want to do that start a new thread.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Kang54 on 10/14/2017 06:11 pm
The AMA is on r/space in 2 hours.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/919262509227323392
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/14/2017 08:26 pm
There is a thread for the AMA:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43980.0 (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43980.0)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/15/2017 12:34 am
Does anyone know if ISPCS will be posting videos like they did for last year's conference?  I don't see much coverage of the conference last week.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 10/15/2017 06:52 am
Does anyone know if ISPCS will be posting videos like they did for last year's conference?  I don't see much coverage of the conference last week.

A shame :( I would expect videos, but expect to wait quite awhile. Last year's conference was at the same time in October and videos were eventually uploaded to YouTube starting in early November and not finishing until late December.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 11/10/2017 07:44 pm
Anyone a member of Irvine Valley College's Accounting Society? ;D Bret Johnson (CFO) is giving a talk over Skype on Nov. 13, 4pm.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbUb47xly2e/

(https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/23347876_288487864974645_4130412358562480128_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Space Ghost 1962 on 11/10/2017 09:28 pm
Suggest you ask about the effectiveness of the ERP software in doing cost recovery models for vehicles. (They got it from Tesla, and its allowed them to exceed federal standards/cost models.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 11/10/2017 09:43 pm
Suggest you ask about the effectiveness of the ERP software in doing cost recovery models for vehicles. (They got it from Tesla, and its allowed them to exceed federal standards/cost models.

I wish, I sadly am not the subject of the email, was posted on Instagram. I'm tempted to ask if it could be recorded, but I highly doubt it.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/16/2017 07:15 am
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NewSpace Europe conference is about to start in Luxembourg. This morning’s speakers include the president & CEO of SES and the president of SpaceX. http://newspace-europe.spacefrontier.org/2017/agenda/#9NWJi7zmpWUX3BmRq7

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/931070083547398144
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 01/11/2018 08:41 am
EE Distinguished Lecture: Lars Blackmore, SpaceX  (https://ee.stanford.edu/event/department/ee-distinguished-lecture-lars-blackmore-spacex) Friday, January 12, 2018 - 3:30pm

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Abstract / Description:
SpaceX's reusable rocket program aims to reduce the cost of space travel by making rockets that can land, refuel and refly, instead of being thrown away after every flight. Autonomous precision landing of a rocket is a unique problem, which has been likened to balancing a rubber broomstick on your hand in a windstorm. Rockets do not have wings (unlike airplanes) and they cannot rely on a high ballistic coefficient to fly in a straight line (unlike missiles). In the past two years, SpaceX has successfully landed nineteen rockets, some of which were on dry land at Cape Canaveral, and some of which were on floating platforms in the ocean. This talk will discuss the challenges involved, how these challenges were overcome, and next steps towards rapid reusability.
Bio:
Lars Blackmore is responsible for Entry, Descent and Landing of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) rocket. His team developed the precision landing algorithms and operations required to bring F9R back to the launch site. Previously, Lars was with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was co-inventor of the G-FOLD algorithm for precision landing on Mars, and was a member of the control team for the SMAP climate change observatory. Lars was named one of MIT Tech Review's "35 under 35" innovators and has a PhD in Guidance, Navigation and Control from the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: G-pit on 01/12/2018 07:14 am
EE Distinguished Lecture: Lars Blackmore, SpaceX  (https://ee.stanford.edu/event/department/ee-distinguished-lecture-lars-blackmore-spacex) Friday, January 12, 2018 - 3:30pm


I will attend this talk today at Stanford and can post notes afterwords. If the opportunity arises, I'll ask one or two questions. Feel free to message me with suggested questions.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: pospa on 01/12/2018 12:33 pm
EE Distinguished Lecture: Lars Blackmore, SpaceX  (https://ee.stanford.edu/event/department/ee-distinguished-lecture-lars-blackmore-spacex) Friday, January 12, 2018 - 3:30pm


I will attend this talk today at Stanford and can post notes afterwords. If the opportunity arises, I'll ask one or two questions. Feel free to message me with suggested questions.

Great! Yes please, post here all notes you can capture.
Please ask him about BFS precision landing in unknown weather conditions during Earth to Earth suborbital transport flights. Would it be easy or difficult for EDL team to prepare robust enough flight SW for all possible conditions and scenarios?   
Thanks!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: G-pit on 01/12/2018 05:54 pm
EE Distinguished Lecture: Lars Blackmore, SpaceX  (https://ee.stanford.edu/event/department/ee-distinguished-lecture-lars-blackmore-spacex) Friday, January 12, 2018 - 3:30pm


I will attend this talk today at Stanford and can post notes afterwords. If the opportunity arises, I'll ask one or two questions. Feel free to message me with suggested questions.

Great! Yes please, post here all notes you can capture.
Please ask him about BFS precision landing in unknown weather conditions during Earth to Earth suborbital transport flights. Would it be easy or difficult for EDL team to prepare robust enough flight SW for all possible conditions and scenarios?   
Thanks!

Got it. FYI, We just received an email stating that the talk is only open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff. Also the venue has been changed.

-- text below --
Due to space limitations, this talk is only open to Stanford faculty, students and staff.
 
Please note that the venue has been changed to: 420-040, Jordan Hall Basement (next to the old Thai Café)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: G-pit on 01/13/2018 12:07 am
EE Distinguished Lecture: Lars Blackmore, SpaceX  (https://ee.stanford.edu/event/department/ee-distinguished-lecture-lars-blackmore-spacex) Friday, January 12, 2018 - 3:30pm


I will attend this talk today at Stanford and can post notes afterwords. If the opportunity arises, I'll ask one or two questions. Feel free to message me with suggested questions.



Hi - The talk just got out. I'm sorry to disappoint, but they were very strict about no press, no recording, and Lars asked specifically about if anyone had attended from Reddit at the end. The obvious vibe was that this talk wasn't intended to be distributed publicly. I'll say that most of the content drew from his 2016 publication here: https://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bridge/164237/164334.aspx

The Q&A he deliberately avoided discussing any future specific plans, but it was very interesting and impressive nonetheless.

I have about 7-8 pages of notes from the talk. I'll clean them up a bit then post them in L2 soon.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: IainMcClatchie on 01/13/2018 01:47 am
For those of us who aren't L2, does that mean it's not kosher to post our notes?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 01/17/2018 12:44 pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 10:00am

Subcommittee on Space Hearing - An Update on NASA Commercial Crew Systems Development (https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-space-hearing-update-nasa-commercial-crew-systems-development)

Hans Koenigsmann will be witness for SpaceX

N.B.: The term witness makes this sound like a trial...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 01/17/2018 02:02 pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 10:00am

Subcommittee on Space Hearing - An Update on NASA Commercial Crew Systems Development (https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-space-hearing-update-nasa-commercial-crew-systems-development)

Hans Koenigsmann will be witness for SpaceX

N.B.: The term witness makes this sound like a trial...

Live stream!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xts7MzioPjA
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: chrisking0997 on 01/17/2018 05:27 pm
kinda disappointing watching that.  Id expect our elected representatives and their staff to be a little more educated and a little less reliant on sensational news
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: woods170 on 01/18/2018 08:05 am
kinda disappointing watching that.  Id expect our elected representatives and their staff to be a little more educated and a little less reliant on sensational news

This is NOT the Space Policy thread so let's not go there please. Thank you.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Lar on 01/18/2018 07:47 pm
kinda disappointing watching that.  Id expect our elected representatives and their staff to be a little more educated and a little less reliant on sensational news

This is NOT the Space Policy thread so let's not go there please. Thank you.

Yes please. In fact, slagging reps straight out probably isn't on for Space Policy either.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: zubenelgenubi on 01/18/2018 08:13 pm
Re: Congressional representatives and collective staff

Do we have any such as members--not asking anyone to name names, of course.

(I know we have one highly-informed and informative FORMER Senatorial staffer in our number here, Jeff Bingham a.k.a. 51D Mascot.)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 01/29/2018 03:06 pm
Here's Shotwell's talk at the TAMEST even in Texas a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjTHJzWPTnU
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Inoeth on 01/29/2018 09:13 pm
Unfortunately that video/presentation really said absolutely nothing new at all... I was hoping to hear some more about updated BFR timeline and testing and some proper Q&A but i guess not...

At this rate I think we'll find out some more new info perhaps during the FH demo at the earliest and usually the best way to find out interesting stuff is at the post-launch press conference  Q&A after CRS missions... and we're all more or less assuming that Musk will be at the next IAC in September as well...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mme on 01/29/2018 10:06 pm
Unfortunately that video/presentation really said absolutely nothing new at all... I was hoping to hear some more about updated BFR timeline and testing and some proper Q&A but i guess not...

At this rate I think we'll find out some more new info perhaps during the FH demo at the earliest and usually the best way to find out interesting stuff is at the post-launch press conference  Q&A after CRS missions... and we're all more or less assuming that Musk will be at the next IAC in September as well...
I think saying Boca Chica would be "ready late this year/early next, year certainly for early vehicle" testing was specifically about BFS.

Edit: Maybe not new, but the timelines for BFS testing at Boca Chica, Uncrewed Demo in August, in-flight abort and crewed demo "end of year" are all note worthy given a lot of stories that those will be slipping.

But they need a BFR video, she reused the ITS video. :)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 01/29/2018 11:07 pm
I'd say there is at least a 75% chance that she is referring to BFR, and a 99% chance that failing twice to specify which vehicle she means is a calculated choice to both feed information to those interested and minimize focus on the inevitable delays that will follow the introduction and testing of a new vehicle. Can't be concluded with total certainty yet, but I imagine we'll be given more of that as the year progresses.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: deruch on 01/30/2018 12:37 am
Unfortunately that video/presentation really said absolutely nothing new at all... I was hoping to hear some more about updated BFR timeline and testing and some proper Q&A but i guess not...

At this rate I think we'll find out some more new info perhaps during the FH demo at the earliest and usually the best way to find out interesting stuff is at the post-launch press conference  Q&A after CRS missions... and we're all more or less assuming that Musk will be at the next IAC in September as well...

In general, Gwen Gwynne doesn't talk much about future things that the company plans to do because she is the main one who deals with the customers.  Which means her focus is more on getting their current contracts fulfilled and signing new deals.  So, when you see a talk by Gwen Gwynne, if you want to hear about things they already have on contract, there's a fair chance you'll get what you were looking for.  If you want big picture plans of the future, look for Elon talking.  This is also accentuated by the fact that, IMO, Elon seems much more willing to speak off the cuff, while Gwen Gwynne tries much more to stay "on message".  Again, that may also be a function of their various job responsibilities/roles.

edit: name spelling, thanks Johnnyhinbos.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Johnnyhinbos on 01/30/2018 02:12 am
Unfortunately that video/presentation really said absolutely nothing new at all... I was hoping to hear some more about updated BFR timeline and testing and some proper Q&A but i guess not...

At this rate I think we'll find out some more new info perhaps during the FH demo at the earliest and usually the best way to find out interesting stuff is at the post-launch press conference  Q&A after CRS missions... and we're all more or less assuming that Musk will be at the next IAC in September as well...

In general, Gwen doesn't talk much about future things that the company plans to do because she is the main one who deals with the customers.  Which means her focus is more on getting their current contracts fulfilled and signing new deals.  So, when you see a talk by Gwen, if you want to hear about things they already have on contract, there's a fair chance you'll get what you were looking for.  If you want big picture plans of the future, look for Elon talking.  This is also accentuated by the fact that, IMO, Elon seems much more willing to speak off the cuff, while Gwen tries much more to stay "on message".  Again, that may also be a function of their various job responsibilities/roles.
Just for the record, it’s “Gwynne”. My last name is spelled wrong more times than it is correctly, so I feel I had to sort that out...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/02/2018 02:20 am
Pretty solid lineup for the FAA's imminent Commercial Space Transportation Conference, Feb 7-8 :) Gestenmaier, Lightfoot, Pace, and Fred Kennedy of DARPA, as well as speakers/panelists from Sierra Nevada, Blue Origin, Vector, Virgin Orbit, SpaceX, Boeing, and a bunch more.

Fingers crossed that it doesn't just end up being a rehashing of things said at CSIS '18.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/21st-annual-faa-commercial-space-transportation-conference-tickets-36660183596

On the SpaceX side of things, two panelists will be in attendance.

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[Feb 7] 4:30 – 5:15 PM Panel: Commercial Space as a Stimulus for Innovation & Inspiration ‎toward the Moon, Mars & Beyond

Panelist: Caryn Schenewerk - SpaceX (Senior Counsel and Director of Spaceflight Policy)

aaaand

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[Feb 8] 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Panel: Commercial Government Partnerships

Panelist: Josh Brost - SpaceX (Senior Director of Government Business Development)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 02/02/2018 02:42 am
Hans was giving a talk somewhere next week too, Smallsat Conference?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/02/2018 06:41 pm
Hans was giving a talk somewhere next week too, Smallsat Conference?

Ah, you're correct! Not the Smallsat Conference, but the Smallsat Symposium™ ::) 9:30am on Feb 6, hosted in Mountain View, CA.
https://smallsatshow.com/agenda/smallsat-core/

aaaaand still yet another... Benjamin Reed (SpaceX Director of Commercial Crew Mission Management) will be on a panel titled "ISS Utilization/Providers" at the 45th Space Conference in Cape Canaveral. That panel is on the first day, Feb 27, from 1:30-3pm.
https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-proceedings/proceedings-2018-45th/feb-27-2018/4/

So, February may well have two SpaceX launches, FH's inaugural flight, and three potentially newsworthy SpaceX talks (out of four total for the month) over a period of about two weeks... AHHHHHHHHH
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rockets4life97 on 02/02/2018 06:56 pm
Seems unlikely Hans will be at that talk on Feb 6 if FH is actually launching that day. I'd expect him to be involved in the FH launch as the head of mission assurance.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 02/03/2018 06:17 pm
EE Distinguished Lecture: Lars Blackmore, SpaceX  (https://ee.stanford.edu/event/department/ee-distinguished-lecture-lars-blackmore-spacex) Friday, January 12, 2018 - 3:30pm


I will attend this talk today at Stanford and can post notes afterwords. If the opportunity arises, I'll ask one or two questions. Feel free to message me with suggested questions.



Hi - The talk just got out. I'm sorry to disappoint, but they were very strict about no press, no recording, and Lars asked specifically about if anyone had attended from Reddit at the end. The obvious vibe was that this talk wasn't intended to be distributed publicly. I'll say that most of the content drew from his 2016 publication here: https://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bridge/164237/164334.aspx

The Q&A he deliberately avoided discussing any future specific plans, but it was very interesting and impressive nonetheless.

I have about 7-8 pages of notes from the talk. I'll clean them up a bit then post them in L2 soon.

The notes are beyond excellent!  Thank you!

L2 members can find it here.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36967.msg1756877#new



Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/06/2018 04:51 pm
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Planned, but still surprising, in-person keynote at @SmallSatBiz conference: @spacex vp/ build & flight reliability, Hans Koenigsmann. Says co now has >$12B in backlog.

https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/960930344588361728
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 02/07/2018 11:01 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mw2_pfcz4
Is there a section for 'current talks' ?

Lightly edited to remove stumbles.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37727.msg1784533#msg1784533 - fairing recovery

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Hi Everyone! So yeah really excited about today incredibly proud of the SpaceX team, they've done an incredible job of creating the most advanced rocket in the world and biggest rocket in the world.

I'm still trying to absorb everything that happened because it seems surreal to me.
I had this image of just a giant explosion on the pad with you know a wheel bouncing down the road and like the Tesla logo landing somewhere with a thud. But fortunately that's not what happened, the mission seems tho have gone really as well as one could have hoped with the exception of the center core.
I was at the two side boosters, if you guys are here you sold them land that was epic, I think that's probably the most exciting thing I've ever seen literally ever. The center core obviously didn't land on the droneship, we're looking at the issue but we think it diddn't have enough TEA/TEB to relight all three engines.
The center one lit I believe,  the outer two did not and that was not enough to slow the stage down.  Apparently it hit the water at 300 miles an hour and took out two of the engines on the droneship.  So if we got the footage like that sounds like some pretty fun footage, so if if the cameras didn't get blown up as well then we'll put that out for the blooper reel.

We weren't gonna reuse that Center core anyway or the two side boosters, we'll figure out some place to put them but as they're not block five or  version five, we weren't planning on reusing any of the cores. The upper stage seems to have worked perfectly so far, the two burns were executed correctly, and now we'll see if the upper stage avionics survive quite an arduous trip through the Van Allen belts.
Normally the stage will pass quickly through the Van Allen belts but here it's essentially dwelling there  for several hours,  and then it's going to do a restart, deplete is propellant and go to trans-mars  injection.

The propellant levels all look good  after the second burn of the upper stage we were only 0.3 Sigma away from predictions, so it has plenty of propellant to complete the trans-mars injection, assuming that the fuel doesn't freeze or the oxygen doesn't boil off and the electronics don't get fried.

We'll find out in a few hours if that that burn is successful.

I went out to the landing zone and took a look at the side boosters,  they look in  really good condition so they're they're both refliable, although as I said they're combination of version 3 and version 4 so we're only gonna be reflying  version 5 at this point. That launches shortly and that that'll be our mainstay, we will stick to version 5 for the falcon architecture we don't expect to have any version 6.


David Kerley form ABC News Elon spectacular what did you learn, what did Falcon Heavy teach you?

I guess it taught me that crazy things can come true, because I didn't really think this would work, and when I see the rocket liftoff, I
see like a thousand things that might not work and it's amazing when they they do. Seeing the two boosters land synchronized, really just like the simulation, it makes you think that it could be quite a scalable approach you know, with those just coming in, landing, taking off, landing,  doing many flights per day.

It gives me a lot of faith for our next architecture the interplanetary spaceship. We have different names for it but BFR is code name. It gives me confidence that BFR is really quite workable.
I was actually looking at the side boosters - I'm like 'they're pretty big you know 16 stories tall, 60 foot leg span but we really need to be way bigger than that so I think it's given me a lot of confidence that we can make the BFR design work. 

I think we can really do this a lot.
You know and keep advancing the technology to achieve full and rapid reusability which will have a  profound effect on the future.
One of the interesting things about Falcon Heavy versus Falcon 9 is that Falcon heavy has the same level of expendability as Falcon nine,  sixty million dollars falcon 9,  Heavies 90, even though it's got three times as much capability,  because in both cases the only thing that's expended is the upper stage.
We're going to start recovering the fairings, we're gonna recover boosters and so the cost difference between a Falcon Heavy and a Falcon 9 is minor.

Marcia Done, Associated Press  What was going through your mind and how how amazed for you to see your Roadster up there with Starman, just cruising along with the blue planet and how long will we be getting live views do you think from the car?

Well I think it looks so ridiculous and impossible,  you can tell it's real because it looks so fake.
Honestly we'd have way better CGI if it was fake.
You know the colors all look like kind of weird in space as there's no atmospheric occlusion, it's like everything was too crisp.
We didn't really test any of those materials for you know - space hardness or whatever, so it just has the same seats that anormal car has - it's a strictly a normal car in space - I  kind of like the absurdity of that.

If you look closely on the dashboard there's a tiny roadster with a tiny spaceman, because hot wheels made a Hot Wheels roadster and a friend a friend of mine suggested "hey why not put that Hot Wheels roadster with a tiny spaceman on the you know the car - like that'd be cool surprise"

Silly fun things are important. Normally for a  new rocket they've launched things like a block of concrete or something like that, I
mean that's so boring and I think  the imagery of it is something that's gonna get people excited around the world.

It's still tripping me out, you know tripping balls here.

Brendan Burn (?)
Congratulations Elon on great launch today where do you see the Falcon Heavy fitting into this launch industry,  is this something that is going to be for more national security or do you see this for interplanetary missions, what's the future of Falcon Heavy?

Falcon Heavy opens up a new class of payload. It can launch more than twice as much payload as any other rocket in the world, so it's kind of up to customers what they might want to launch. It can launch things direct to Pluto and beyond with no need for a gravity assist or anything. Launch giant satellites, it can do anything you want. You could send people back to the moon with a bunch of Falcon Heavy and an orbital refilling.  Two or three falcon heavies would equal the payload of a Saturn Five.
But I wouldn't recommend doing that because I think that BFR architecture is the way to go, but I think it's gonna open up a sense of possibility, I think it's going to encourage other companies and countries to say 'hey if SpaceX which is a commercial company can do this with internal funds then then they could do it too. 
So I think it's an encourage other countries and companies to raise their sights and say 'hey, we can do bigger and better', which is great.  We want a new space race.
Races are exciting!

Darryl Mail (?) Fox
Can you talk us through your thought process as you were watching the launch, you said you were incredibly concerned about it and you just wanted it to clear the pad?

I think this is true of anyone who's involved closely in the design of something, you know all the ways it can fail and and there's a mental checklist scrolling through your mind of all the things that can break.
I mean. there's thousands of things that can go wrong and everything has to go right.

Once the rocket lifts off there's nothing, there's no opportunity to do a recall or upload a software fix or anything like that, it has to be a hundred percent -  at least for the ascent phase. I've seen rockets blow up  so many different ways, so you know it's a big relief when it it actually works.
I bet whoever launched something like a 747 or or dc-3 or something like that, I bet the chief engineer was like 'I can't believe that things like flying'.

Irene Klotz from Aviation Week
Congratulations. Can you talk to us a little bit about what needs to happen to certify Falcon Heavy for national security missions. Gow far along you are in the process and how many flights you might need to do and also if you're able to say anything about how much SpaceX's investment was to get to the rocket to this point thanks.

It depends on which national security mission that we need to get. How many flights depends on which mission but we have a number of commercial customers for Falcon Heavy and so I it's not gonna be in any way an impediment to acceptance of national security missions.  We'll be doing several heavy missions flights per year so, say there's a big national security satellite that's due for launch in three or four years and we're probably have like a dozen or more launches done by then.
I don't think launch number will be an inhibitor for national security stuff. And yeah so I think we've got the STP mission that's coming up which is another test mission that will go on falcon heavy block 5 and then we'll be launching block 5  single stick in a couple months so I think it's hopefully smooth sailing for qualification for national security missions.

Falcon heavy costs
Our investment to date probably a lot more than I'd like to admit. We tried to cancel the Falcon Heavy program three times at SpaceX because it's like 'man this is way harder than we thought'. The initial idea was just I thought you know you stick on two first stages of side boosters how hard can it be?  It's like way hard.
We have to redesign the center core completely.  We redesigned the grid fins, because well it's a long story but you've got a nose cone on the end of at the end of the booster instead of a cylinder, you lose control authority because if you if you've got a cylinder you can kind of bounce the air off of the rocket and you get like a 30% more increased control authority than if you've got a cylindrical section instead of a Ogive section at the end of the booster so we have to redesign the grid fins.  Redesigning the control system.
Vastly redesigned the thrust structure at the base to take way more load - that center boosters got to deal with over a million pounds of load coming in combined from the site boosters so it ends up being heavier so that the center core basically complete redesign, and even the side boosters has a pretty large number of parts that change. Then the launch site itself needs to change a lot.
I'm guessing our total investment is over half a billion. Probably more.

Dan Fergana from BuzzFeed news
Could you talk a little bit about the decision to have the two side boosters come down at the same time is that just the way it falls out from the physics or was that a actual decision you made?

We did offset them slightly but really they they pretty much just come down that way. We want them to offset slightly just so that the radars didn't interfere and we actually wanted no communication between the two stages, they're both going to a point in absolute space and we're just worried that the radar reflection of one would be seen by the radar receiver the other. But no, that's just kind of how it happened. It's actually meant to happen just like that.

Keith cowling at NASA watch first of all congratulations you've launched a rather unconventional payload into space, one that's generated a lot of buzz and there's a lot of people some of them citizen scientists some of them they're just newbies when it comes to tracking things and states are going to try and track the the Tesla and understand what's happening to it - you know like that movie dude where's my car -  Other than the live web cam today what does SpaceX going to do to interact with this community of Tesla trackers once the car leaves orbit? Do you have a plan are you just gonna kind of wait and see what bubbles up in the internet and react to it? 
We don't have a plan. No plan, the battery's gonna last about 12 hours from launch roughly and after that it's just gonna be out there in deep space for maybe millions and millions of years who knows. Maybe  discovered by future alien race thinking what the heck what what were these guys doing did they worship this car? Why do they have a little car in the car? That'll really confuse the.  I'm not sure what's gonna happen but I think you know it's kind of a fun thing and sure hope that next burn works by the way. We'll know in a few hours.

Chris Davenport from the Washington Post so now that you're focusing more on the BFR, I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the timeline. I know you said it's coming along faster, and then what that means for your plans for Mars and the moon
Well I don't want to get too off-topic but you know I think we might, if we get lucky, be able to do short hop flights with the spaceship part of BFR maybe next year.
Bill Harwood from CBS Two really quick ones you mentioned the the drone ship a couple of thrusters got hit, did the thing land on the ship or near?
Take the information that I have with a grain of salt, it may be incorrect. The information I received was that we hit the water at about 300 miles an hour  and about a hundred metres away from the ship. Which was enough to take out two thrusters and shower the deck with shrapnel.
You mentioned the burn coming up can you give us any sense of how long a burn are we talking about and when you hope to have some confirmation and be able to tell us that it did or didn't work I don't have the number off hand, I was just looking at the profound residual Sigma which is like the key number. It's it's a decent decently long burn.  Maybe a minute or so and yeah that'll be in few hours hopefully. I actually don't have the latest information because I've just been out at the landing zone and haven't been back to launch control since going to the landing zones. I don't have the latest information on the status of the upper stage.

Tom Costello for NBC News  Congratulations again! I
want to follow up on Chris's question because Chris asked you what's your timeline potentially to go to the Moon or Mars and you said, did you say as soon as next year, can you quantify that but then I tie my real question I'm just doing Chris's work.

By hopper tests I mean kind-of-like the grasshopper program for falcon 9, where we just had the rocket take take off and land in Texas at our Texas test site so we'd either do that at our South Texas launch site, near Brownsville or or do ship-to-ship. We're not sure yet whether ship-to-ship or Brownsville, but most likely it's gonna happen in our Brownsville location because got a lot of land with nobody around and so if it blows up, it's cool.
By hopper test I mean it'll go up several miles then come down. The ship is capable of single stage to orbit if you fully load the tanks. So we'll do flights of increasing complexity. We really want to  test the heatshield material so,  like you know fly out turn around accelerate back real hard and come in hot to test the heat shield, because we want to have a highly reusable heat shield that's capable of absorbing heat from interplanetary entry velocities. So it's really tricky.
The potential to go to the moon or mars what's your timeline, any idea?
So a lot of uncertainties on this program but it is going to be our focus, now that we're almost done with with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, we're gonna level off at block 5 or version 5, so there won't be anymore major versions of Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy. Dragon is also going to level off at dragon version 2. There might be point releases like 5.1 or Dragon 2.1 or something like that but most of our engineering resources will be dedicated to BFR and and so I think that that will make things go quite quickly.

The ship part is by far the hardest because that's going to come in from super-orbital velocities. Mars transfer velocities these are way harder than coming in from low-earth orbit. There's some of the heating things that scale to the eighth power.  I diddn't think there's anything that scales to eight power but turns out on reentry certain elements of reentry heating scale to the 8th so just testing that ship out is the real tricky part.
The booster I think we understand reasonable boosters. Reusable spaceships that can land propulsively that's that's harder, so we're starting with the hard part first.
I think it's conceivable that we do our first full-up orbital test flight in 3-4 years including the booster.  inaudible question on moon/mars
 We'd go to low earth orbit first but it would be capable of going to the moon very shortly thereafter it's designed to do that.

Martin Avenue reddit's r/space
 I'd like to congratulate it you as well as so many people have done just now. I'd like to know about Starman spacesuit is it a production model, is it instrumented and/or pressurized and what's holding his what's holding him up?
Well there's a mannequin inside, so it's just basically stuffed, but yeah that is the actual production design so the real one looks like just like that that in fact that's one of the qualification articles so that's that's real that's the real deal yeah.
I figure if you're gonna go on a dangerous trip you want to look good. It took us three years to design, it was real hard,  it's easier making spacesuit that looks good or doesn't work or that works but doesn't look good it's really difficult to make a space suit that looks good and works.  You have to make it a multi-part process and it was surprisingly difficult.

I take motion from Business Insider um thank you so much for doing this by the way and I
want to go back to VFR for a second since you were talking about that, and also Starman which is such an inspirational thing that's happening.  Have you thought given any thought to what you might do with BFR in that way what is the what is the payload and any thoughts of that?
No, no ideas, sugestions are welcome!

I mean it's a beast so you know the BFR 9 meter diameter or 30 feet roughly. You can put a lot in 30 feet,  hundred twenty meters long. Although you know I bet it doesn't look that big after a while.
 
timber notes from ports
Hi Elon thanks again for doing this. Two questions for you one just about faring recovery,  just curious how the SpaceX is coming with that, and  Jeff Bezos just responded to your tweet congratulating you on your launch today.   You just mentioned a minute ago that we need a new space race I'm just curious if you see yourself in a race with blue origin.
What's the first part of the the question again?
Checking in on fairing recovery.
Fairing recovery

I'm pretty sure we'll have fairing recovery in the next six months.
It turns out that you pop the parachute on the fairing and you've got this giant awkward thing that tends to interfere with the air flow on the on the parachute and and mess it up.

Gets all twisty and and was low priority too. We have fairing version two which is the really  important one that we want to recover, so even if we recovered fairing version one, we wouldn't be re-flying it in the future. Fairing two and recovery that's very important, and my guess is - next six months we figure out recovery.
We've got a special boat to catch the fairing, like a catcher's mitt. It's like a giant catchers mitt in boat form.
 It's gonna run around and catch the fairing.
Kinda fun.
I think you might be able to do the same thing with dragon so if NASA wants us to, we could try to catch dragon.
Made for the fairing, but it would work for dragon too.

James Dean from Florida today  Speaking of those dragons could you give us a status on Commercial Crew and and you know when we might realistically see that astronaut just get into low-earth orbit much less the Moon or Mars

We're making great progress on crew dragon or dragon version 2 - mission assurance is always number one  priority but then the the priority used to be falcon 9 block five and then a month ago I said absolute priority is crew Dragon.  We're pretty much done with falcon 9  block five, almost done with Falcon Heavy, a few tweaks that could occur with falcon heavy block five but they're minor. And so it's all hands on deck for crew dragon and we're aspiring to send crew to orbit  at the end of this year.

I think the hardware will be ready.
Chris Gephardt How quickly can the pad be reconfigured between heavy and Falcon 9 since you need that pad for both?

It's no problem, it can go back and forth this is its designed that way.
And for the block five version of the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy are the does the Falcon having need a dedicated core built for it?
It does. Tthe center core needs to be dedicated, the center core is a special build, the side boosters we can reuse existing Falcon 9s but we need to just replace the interstage with a with a nose cone and and use the upgraded titanium grid-fins, which are sweet.
Those worked out real well I'm really happy about those in fact I'm glad we got the side boosters back because they had the titanium grid-fins,  and the center core diddn't.  So if I have to pick, I would have picked the side boosters. I just picked the center core to explode.  That would be like the least bad. The grid-fins are super expensive and and awesome but their production rate is slow.  We want them back. The most important thing to recover where those gridfins.
 Is there anything inside the spacesuit testing like its ability to function>
Nope, I know it definitely works so you can just like jump in a vacuum chamber with it and be fine.

(He's totally jumped in a vacuum chamber with it)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: theinternetftw on 02/07/2018 06:49 pm
Is there a section for 'current talks' ?

And although this is a special case where there was a unfollowable maelstrom of activity on the SpaceX side of the site, a clearer place to look for stuff like this would also avoid the problem demonstrated below :)

Transcript of the Post-Launch Press Conference:

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/a2ca9540e099621aef851c2ecbbd82fb
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 02/07/2018 07:26 pm
Is there a section for 'current talks' ?

And although this is a special case where there was a unfollowable maelstrom of activity on the SpaceX side of the site, a clearer place to look for stuff like this would also avoid the problem demonstrated below :)

Transcript of the Post-Launch Press Conference:

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/a2ca9540e099621aef851c2ecbbd82fb

Quite - I was moderately annoyed when I found that.

But retyping is an excellent way to remember.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: theinternetftw on 02/07/2018 10:03 pm
But retyping is an excellent way to remember.

Absolutely. By the end of it you have to really know what they're saying. It's a great side effect of the whole business.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Hominans Kosmos on 02/08/2018 08:58 pm
Is there a section for 'current talks' ?

And although this is a special case where there was a unfollowable maelstrom of activity on the SpaceX side of the site, a clearer place to look for stuff like this would also avoid the problem demonstrated below :)

Transcript of the Post-Launch Press Conference:

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/a2ca9540e099621aef851c2ecbbd82fb

Quite - I was moderately annoyed when I found that.

But retyping is an excellent way to remember.

A talks and interviews archive thread would be of great value. Especially since that time not too long ago when youtube started banning accounts that reuploaded just archives of person of interest (Elon) appearances.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/19/2018 02:39 am
Shotwell will be on a panel at Satellite 2018, 4:15-5:15pm EST on March 12. Excitingly, on the same panel will be Stephane Israel of Arianespace, Bob Smith of Blue Origin, Tory Bruno of ULA, and Dr. Ko of Mitsubishi (H-II manufacturer). Should be an awesome time ;D

Launch Services Panel: Breaking Through the Bottleneck
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The process and challenge of launching satellites to orbit breaks down to three basic elements: availability, costs and reliability. While costs and reliability have long been the focal points of industry discussion, the rapidly increasing line of constellations, with thousands of satellites waiting to be launched, has shifted our attention to the problem of availability. In order to meet current demand, the world's leading launch services need to dramatically increase their speed of operations. Some say we need to start seeing weekly launches. How can this be achieved without rushing or risking failure? Is it even physically possible to launch weekly? Will it ever be? This year's launch leaders panel will take a break from costs and focus exclusively on the challenge of availability, and discuss the impact of reusable rockets and other technologies on turnaround times. Open to conference -level attendees.

Another talk features Josh Brost of SpaceX, 10:45-11:45am EST March 14.

Adapting the Government-Commercial Satcom Relationship for the 21st Century
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This panel will explore ideas for creating synergies and establishing collaboration for SATCOM between the US military and industry in an era during which we are seeing increasing commercial space innovation while at the same time threats to space capabilities are growing in number and sophistication. Areas explored will include: Are there mission sets or capabilities for which the USG should establish a "Commercial First" approach? Are there mission sets that require military-designed and operated systems? What initiatives might be undertaken by the Commercial SATCOM industry to foster greater use by the military? Are there practical approaches by which the US Government can achieve globally available, seamless multi-band communications which deliver reasonably resilient, reliable capability for all US Government customers and are there steps the SATCOM industry can take to make such approaches viable?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AncientU on 02/19/2018 11:23 am
These talks should hit on commoditization of space launch and the evolution of the defense market.  Will be interesting to see if Bruno is still in total denial or if the panelists argue to 'not count your chickens before they hatch'.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Semmel on 02/19/2018 11:49 am
These talks should hit on commoditization of space launch and the evolution of the defense market.  Will be interesting to see if Bruno is still in total denial or if the panelists argue to 'not count your chickens before they hatch'.

Nahh.. I expect them to repeat what they always say at these panels and avoid each others strategy. SpaceX will beat down on reusability and FH, ULA on reliability and the upcoming revolution due to IVF, Blue will do its thing with small steps are fastest, Mitsubishi will be proud to be in the business and how great their new product is going to be and Arianespace will act as if they will have the best, cheapest and most successful launcher in the future as they claim to have had in the past. I dont expect any revelations or new developments/announcements. I am still hopeful for some nuggets that get dropped in at the side somehow for us fans.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/19/2018 05:51 pm
These talks should hit on commoditization of space launch and the evolution of the defense market.  Will be interesting to see if Bruno is still in total denial or if the panelists argue to 'not count your chickens before they hatch'.

Nahh.. I expect them to repeat what they always say at these panels and avoid each others strategy. SpaceX will beat down on reusability and FH, ULA on reliability and the upcoming revolution due to IVF, Blue will do its thing with small steps are fastest, Mitsubishi will be proud to be in the business and how great their new product is going to be and Arianespace will act as if they will have the best, cheapest and most successful launcher in the future as they claim to have had in the past. I dont expect any revelations or new developments/announcements. I am still hopeful for some nuggets that get dropped in at the side somehow for us fans.

I expect the reality to be somewhere in the middle of these polar opposites ;D Given the level of banter between Bruno and Musk, as well as Shotwell's near-equal frankness with respect to the status quo, I don't think she's going to simply sit quietly if provoked, and - realistically - I can't even fathom Israel, Bruno, and Smith ALL resisting the urge to make a smug or arrogant comment or two...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AncientU on 02/19/2018 06:57 pm
These talks should hit on commoditization of space launch and the evolution of the defense market.  Will be interesting to see if Bruno is still in total denial or if the panelists argue to 'not count your chickens before they hatch'.

Nahh.. I expect them to repeat what they always say at these panels and avoid each others strategy. SpaceX will beat down on reusability and FH, ULA on reliability and the upcoming revolution due to IVF, Blue will do its thing with small steps are fastest, Mitsubishi will be proud to be in the business and how great their new product is going to be and Arianespace will act as if they will have the best, cheapest and most successful launcher in the future as they claim to have had in the past. I dont expect any revelations or new developments/announcements. I am still hopeful for some nuggets that get dropped in at the side somehow for us fans.

I expect the reality to be somewhere in the middle of these polar opposites ;D Given the level of banter between Bruno and Musk, as well as Shotwell's near-equal frankness with respect to the status quo, I don't think she's going to simply sit quietly if provoked, and - realistically - I can't even fathom Israel, Bruno, and Smith ALL resisting the urge to make a smug or arrogant comment or two...

This one is kinda tee'd up for Gwynne, coming so soon after her recognition as Satellite Executive of 2017 and an 18 launch year (same as her main competition combined*):

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This year's launch leaders panel will take a break from costs and focus exclusively on the challenge of availability, and discuss the impact of reusable rockets and other technologies on turnaround times.

*Atlas V, Ariane 5, and H-II launched six times each in 2017, and NG launched zero
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 02/19/2018 07:51 pm
These launch panels happen a couple of times a year, it's nothing new.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 02/19/2018 08:59 pm
Every now and then we see some fireworks on these panels, such as the notorious (and delicious) CASBAA 2013 launch panel.  I expect the executives on the Satellite 2018 panel will be a little more circumspect, but you never know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-7nNw-04Q
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jabe on 02/19/2018 09:38 pm
Every now and then we see some fireworks on these panels, such as the notorious (and delicious) CASBAA 2013 launch panel.  I expect the executives on the Satellite 2018 panel will be a little more circumspect, but you never know.

this is awesome..thanks for posting again  3:20 is worth the listen
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: IainMcClatchie on 02/19/2018 10:28 pm
This is awesome.  The moderator is fantastic.

The SpaceX guy said Falcon Heavy would go up in 2014.  They slipped from 1 year to 5, but then succeeded.

I think the Araine guy at 15:30 is fascinating.  He says the market for launches is 25/year, limited because they're all going to geostationary.  If you want to launch millions (or thousands), where are you going to put them?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jabe on 02/19/2018 10:38 pm
I think the Araine guy at 15:30 is fascinating. 
The Ariane guys "smugness" was over top..curious how he views this interview now..
lots of good sound bytes...rags in fuel lines etc
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: niwax on 02/19/2018 11:23 pm
I think the Araine guy at 15:30 is fascinating. 
The Ariane guys "smugness" was over top..curious how he views this interview now..
lots of good sound bytes...rags in fuel lines etc

This looks a lot worse in hindsight. As he said, back then SpaceX didn't even do GTO missions, and that $15m to orbit goal was literally announced that morning without any specifics how to get there. At that point they were simply a half price launch service with a somewhat flaky reliability record and questionably fast development practices.

One thing I didn't know about before was how the Chinese built a business model around the restrictions on import/export. If SpaceX hadn't succeeded, that satellite+launch combination could have been really attractive for smaller nations. The same goes for Arianne, from the perspective of an old space manager they were on exactly on the right track with a smaller, mission-specific launcher. That has shifted now of course, but at the time they had a realistic path to slight but steady cost reduction while SpaceX made somewhat unsupported claims.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: matthewkantar on 02/20/2018 12:53 am
The guy from Ariane, at 3:20 or so, says SpaceX is "selling a dream." He says: "Personally, I think reuse is a dream."

I think he might have meant nightmare.

Matthew
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 02/20/2018 05:47 am
The guy from Ariane,
>
I think he might have meant nightmare.

Richard Bowles, managing director Singapore ASEAN Office.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 02/23/2018 06:23 pm
Gwynne Shotwell is sitting down for an interview with SSPI at their hall-of-fame induction event.  The webinar will take place on Wed Feb 28th 2pm-3pm ET.  I imagine it will be available on Youtube not long after.

https://www.sspi.org/events/sspi-promise2purpose-interview-gwynne-shotwell

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Join SSPI for a live online interview with SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell, who will be inducted into the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame in March. In a conversation with SSPI's Robert Bell, Gwynne will talk about her early years, her first role in managing people and the leadership lessons she learned, how she hires and what she has learned about leading a team bringing major innovations to market.

Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO, SpaceX. As VP of business development, Gwynne led the effort to build the Falcon vehicle manifest to over 50 launches representing $5 billion in revenue including commercial resupply services for delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.  She became President and Chief Operating Officer in 2008, and assumed responsibility for day-to-day operations and for managing the customer and strategic relationships that support company growth.  Under her leadership, SpaceX's backlog has grown to more than $7 billion worth of launches while achieving a set of remarkable milestones.

Click here to register to listen to the interview live: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1321935522443512577
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/26/2018 09:47 pm
Joy Dunn (SpaceX's director of new product introduction) is giving a talk at the 2018 LWT Summit (San Francisco, CA) on March 2nd. Hers will be around noon, PST. I think it's only around 10 minutes long at the most.

https://lesbianswhotech.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/5th-Annual-Lesbians-Who-Tech-Allies-San-Francisco-Agenda-2018-__-Public-Version.pdf
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 03/10/2018 08:33 am
Joy Dunn (SpaceX's director of new product introduction) is giving a talk at the 2018 LWT Summit (San Francisco, CA) on March 2nd. Hers will be around noon, PST. I think it's only around 10 minutes long at the most.

https://lesbianswhotech.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/5th-Annual-Lesbians-Who-Tech-Allies-San-Francisco-Agenda-2018-__-Public-Version.pdf

The organizers sure as hell didn't make it easy to find the livestream, even after the fact, but I did and it was pretty awesome. Only downside is that I'll likely be heartbroken until SpaceX publicly releases that amazing-looking CRS-11ish slow-mo footage :'(
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 03/10/2018 09:30 am
Ooooooooh, the rare super awesome MIT lineup with an actual webcast and the promise of an archived video after it ends! All credit to Reddit /u/CProphet for the find.

Paul Wooster, SpaceX's Principal Mars Dev Engineer, will be giving a talk around 1:30pm EST. Livestream is at the link below.
http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meekGee on 03/10/2018 01:22 pm
Ooooooooh, the rare super awesome MIT lineup with an actual webcast and the promise of an archived video after it ends! All credit to Reddit /u/CProphet for the find.

Paul Wooster, SpaceX's Principal Mars Dev Engineer, will be giving a talk around 1:30pm EST. Livestream is at the link below.
http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/
He's the guy to watch.

He joined SpaceX a long time ago, it was the first concrete evidence that SpaceX is actively working on a Mars program...

Back in the very early days of F9 IIRC.

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Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 03/10/2018 01:43 pm
Ooooooooh, the rare super awesome MIT lineup with an actual webcast and the promise of an archived video after it ends! All credit to Reddit /u/CProphet for the find.

Paul Wooster, SpaceX's Principal Mars Dev Engineer, will be giving a talk around 1:30pm EST. Livestream is at the link below.
http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/

Do check the schedule for other things you may be interested in though - Blue for example has a talk soon.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 03/10/2018 06:01 pm
I was pondering doing a transcript for the above - but there is basically no point.
There was no new info, and it repeats some outdated info - for example the slide from IAC with two sea level raptors without any comment that this design has changed.
The IAC 2017 presentation has very slightly more content, but it was basically just re-reading out the speech given there, with some cuts, and no mention of P2P.

There was mention of a offline question session - but obviously - ...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: acsawdey on 03/10/2018 06:05 pm
I was pondering doing a transcript for the above - but there is basically no point.
There was no new info, and it repeats some outdated info - for example the slide from IAC with two raptors without any comment that this design has changed.
The IAC 2017 presentation has very slightly more content, but it was basically just re-reading out the speech given there, with some cuts, and no mention of P2P.

That is my take on this as well. The BFS picture with 2 SL raptors stood out as evidence that he was litterally given Elon's IAC slides and told not to reveal anything new. I think we need to recruit people who will be there in person to hear discussion in the room, for instance there were no questions livestreamed here but probably off-line discussion did occur.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 03/10/2018 06:11 pm
I was pondering doing a transcript for the above - but there is basically no point.
There was no new info, and it repeats some outdated info - for example the slide from IAC with two raptors without any comment that this design has changed.
The IAC 2017 presentation has very slightly more content, but it was basically just re-reading out the speech given there, with some cuts, and no mention of P2P.

That is my take on this as well. The BFS picture with 2 SL raptors stood out as evidence that he was litterally given Elon's IAC slides and told not to reveal anything new. I think we need to recruit people who will be there in person to hear discussion in the room, for instance there were no questions livestreamed here but probably off-line discussion did occur.

My stream was having buffering issues, but apparently he started his talk by saying, "Anyone hoping for major news today, I can say that that is not what's going to be included here." Only mentionables are the confirmation that launch mount booster recovery is still the goal and that first operational cargo missions to Mars are NET "mid-2020s."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rory on 03/10/2018 06:12 pm
That is my take on this as well. The BFS picture with 2 SL raptors stood out as evidence that he was litterally given Elon's IAC slides and told not to reveal anything new. I think we need to recruit people who will be there in person to hear discussion in the room, for instance there were no questions livestreamed here but probably off-line discussion did occur.

The offline conversation sounds riveting so far:

Quote from: Jeff Foust
Question: what orientation will the crews in BFR be in during Mars entry?

Wooster: in an appropriate orientation.
#spaceexploration
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/972548995737321473
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 03/10/2018 06:16 pm
My stream was having buffering issues, but apparently he started his talk by saying, "Anyone hoping for major news today, I can say that that is not what's going to be included here." Only mentionables are the confirmation that launch mount booster recovery is still the goal and that first operational cargo missions to Mars are NET "mid-2020s."

If we're over-analysing this, you could look at the mention of the moon as significant, while some other bits (large satellite launch) were downplayed with the slides being skipped.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Craig_VG on 03/10/2018 08:43 pm
He's the guy to watch.

He joined SpaceX a long time ago, it was the first concrete evidence that SpaceX is actively working on a Mars program...

Back in the very early days of F9 IIRC.


In addition, he took the title "Principal Mars Development Engineer" in November 2017 according to his LinkedIn. Before that he was a Systems Engineer and Spacecraft GNC Manager
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meekGee on 03/10/2018 09:24 pm
He's the guy to watch.

He joined SpaceX a long time ago, it was the first concrete evidence that SpaceX is actively working on a Mars program...

Back in the very early days of F9 IIRC.


In addition, he took the title "Principal Mars Development Engineer" in November 2017 according to his LinkedIn. Before that he was a Systems Engineer and Spacecraft GNC Manager
Yeah, but I originally found him from looking at Mars transfer trajectory work.  The fact they gave him a non-Mars title was cute, since they of course knew who they were hiring...

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Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: CuddlyRocket on 03/11/2018 07:07 am
Elon Musk Crashes Westworld Panel at SXSW 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=438&v=9sc3T8yN4mA) (YouTube)

Rarely hear Elon so emotional!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Danny452 on 03/11/2018 12:44 pm
At 6:26 the Falcon Heavy centre core crashes into the sea---the first time I've seen this.  Is there a better video of the attempted centre core landing?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 03/11/2018 01:19 pm
At 6:26 the Falcon Heavy centre core crashes into the sea---the first time I've seen this.  Is there a better video of the attempted centre core landing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnMRXRlx8JM - a clip from the longer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0FZIwabctw .
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Inoeth on 03/11/2018 02:06 pm
Elon is doing a Q &A at SXSW at 1 pm EST. I imagine it'll be a bit of a shitshow and only a couple questions related to SpaceX and I doubt we'll get any new information, but there ya go.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eagandale4114 on 03/11/2018 05:09 pm
SXSW is live!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj7feFDVdmY


A few BFR questions, first ship currently under construction!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: LucR on 03/11/2018 06:00 pm
Anyone have a working link for SXSW? It went "This video is unavailable" while I was watching it...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: dnavas on 03/11/2018 06:11 pm
Anyone have a working link for SXSW? It went "This video is unavailable" while I was watching it...

I watched the whole thing (the link I used is currently marked as unavailable), and the only spacex thing I heard that seemed worthy of being repeated was the goal of having some short hops of the new rocket in first half of 2019.  [I enjoyed the discussion about pre-Tesla as well, as I had a very similar set of (frustrating) conversations with Tom, but that's not spacex-related in the least.]
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 03/11/2018 06:15 pm
Anyone have a working link for SXSW? It went "This video is unavailable" while I was watching it...

I watched the whole thing (the link I used is currently marked as unavailable), and the only spacex thing I heard that seemed worthy of being repeated was the goal of having some short hops of the new rocket in first half of 2019.  [I enjoyed the discussion about pre-Tesla as well, as I had a very similar set of (frustrating) conversations with Tom, but that's not spacex-related in the least.]

Even that's been said before.

Quote
Well I don't want to get too off-topic but you know I think we might, if we get lucky, be able to do short hop flights with the spaceship part of BFR maybe next year.

(transcript of FH post-launch press conference upthread).

An interesting interview nonetheless, even though almost no technical information was revealed.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: matthewkantar on 03/11/2018 06:19 pm
Anyone have a working link for SXSW? It went "This video is unavailable" while I was watching it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DahRypEoeM4
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: dnavas on 03/11/2018 06:42 pm
...the goal of having some short hops of the new rocket in first half of 2019.

Even that's been said before.

Quote
Well I don't want to get too off-topic but you know I think we might, if we get lucky, be able to do short hop flights with the spaceship part of BFR maybe next year.

(transcript of FH post-launch press conference upthread).

Yeah, it was marginally more specific, and it seemed to move the goal posts *in* from "maybe next year" to "first half of next year"  ~5:45 in the above video.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meekGee on 03/11/2018 07:27 pm
...the goal of having some short hops of the new rocket in first half of 2019.

Even that's been said before.

Quote
Well I don't want to get too off-topic but you know I think we might, if we get lucky, be able to do short hop flights with the spaceship part of BFR maybe next year.

(transcript of FH post-launch press conference upthread).

Yeah, it was marginally more specific, and it seemed to move the goal posts *in* from "maybe next year" to "first half of next year"  ~5:45 in the above video.
Time flies...  Originally I thought they wanted end of 2018...

So it's moved from 100 years before anyone else would have done it to 99.

I'm still happy, and waiting for the first pics from the factory floor.

Lighting the engines in 2019 means there are pieces existing somewhere today.

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ABCD: Always Be Counting Down

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 03/12/2018 07:07 pm
Shotwell will be on a panel at Satellite 2018, 4:15-5:15pm EST on March 12. Excitingly, on the same panel will be Stephane Israel of Arianespace, Bob Smith of Blue Origin, Tory Bruno of ULA, and Dr. Ko of Mitsubishi (H-II manufacturer). Should be an awesome time ;D

Launch Services Panel: Breaking Through the Bottleneck
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The process and challenge of launching satellites to orbit breaks down to three basic elements: availability, costs and reliability. While costs and reliability have long been the focal points of industry discussion, the rapidly increasing line of constellations, with thousands of satellites waiting to be launched, has shifted our attention to the problem of availability. In order to meet current demand, the world's leading launch services need to dramatically increase their speed of operations. Some say we need to start seeing weekly launches. How can this be achieved without rushing or risking failure? Is it even physically possible to launch weekly? Will it ever be? This year's launch leaders panel will take a break from costs and focus exclusively on the challenge of availability, and discuss the impact of reusable rockets and other technologies on turnaround times. Open to conference -level attendees.

Any NSF users attending SatShow 2018? Shotwell's panel begins in 10 minutes. I'd die for a periscope or transcript ;D
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Roy_H on 03/12/2018 08:24 pm
Shotwell will be on a panel at Satellite 2018, 4:15-5:15pm EST on March 12. Excitingly, on the same panel will be Stephane Israel of Arianespace, Bob Smith of Blue Origin, Tory Bruno of ULA, and Dr. Ko of Mitsubishi (H-II manufacturer). Should be an awesome time ;D

Launch Services Panel: Breaking Through the Bottleneck
Quote
The process and challenge of launching satellites to orbit breaks down to three basic elements: availability, costs and reliability. While costs and reliability have long been the focal points of industry discussion, the rapidly increasing line of constellations, with thousands of satellites waiting to be launched, has shifted our attention to the problem of availability. In order to meet current demand, the world's leading launch services need to dramatically increase their speed of operations. Some say we need to start seeing weekly launches. How can this be achieved without rushing or risking failure? Is it even physically possible to launch weekly? Will it ever be? This year's launch leaders panel will take a break from costs and focus exclusively on the challenge of availability, and discuss the impact of reusable rockets and other technologies on turnaround times. Open to conference -level attendees.

Any NSF users attending SatShow 2018? Shotwell's panel begins in 10 minutes. I'd die for a periscope or transcript ;D

Is there a link for this? Where do we watch it?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Inoeth on 03/13/2018 12:15 am
It wasn't live-streamed, tho people like Jeff Foust live-tweeted what happened.

Will be “significant overlap” between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and BFR, given the effort required to develop Falcon vehicles and getting government certification for them. Source

Customers have accepted “flight-proven” first stages much faster than I expected. About half of our launches this year will be on reused first stages. Source

Block upgrades are behind us now, we can get cadence up; 9 flight-proven 1st stages launched so far, and 1/2 of this year's flights will use flight-proven stages. Customer acceptance happening faster than we thought. Source

BFR will probably be orbital in 2020, but you should start seeing hops in 2019. Source

We are going to fly Spaceflight Inc's smallsat group in a dedicated flight this summer. Source

SpaceX and ULA agree - Bruno: “Satellites are getting bigger and smaller.” Shotwell: “Disaggregated systems are very helpful to the launch industry.” Source

Market is not just demand, it's demand with money. A lot of smallsat guys dont have much money. That's why we ended Falcon 1. But with constellation replacement, small launchers may find a market. Source

After demonstrating reusable boosters, it’s now “soul-crushing” to even dispose of payload fairings now. Source

SpaceX needs a fully reusable rocket to get humans to other planets. Source

Hard to say how declining launch prices will affect emerging market for satellite servicing. Interest was driven in part by high launch prices. Source

Edit/gongora:  This was (badly) copied from a Reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/83xx3k/shotwell_is_on_a_panel_with_bruno_israel_and/dvlgelc/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/13/2018 07:37 am
A picture of the panel

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Launcher panel @SATELLITEDC today: Thanks @torybruno for emphasizing how valuable the investment from suppliers is, when it comes to the development of next gen rockets. #SATShow @ulalaunch @blueorigin @SpaceX @Arianespace    @ILSLaunch

https://twitter.com/ruagspace/status/973321579772960768?s=21
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 03/13/2018 12:31 pm
It wasn't live-streamed, tho people like Jeff Foust live-tweeted what happened.

Will be “significant overlap” between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and BFR, given the effort required to develop Falcon vehicles and getting government certification for them. Source

Customers have accepted “flight-proven” first stages much faster than I expected. About half of our launches this year will be on reused first stages. Source

Block upgrades are behind us now, we can get cadence up; 9 flight-proven 1st stages launched so far, and 1/2 of this year's flights will use flight-proven stages. Customer acceptance happening faster than we thought. Source

BFR will probably be orbital in 2020, but you should start seeing hops in 2019. Source

We are going to fly Spaceflight Inc's smallsat group in a dedicated flight this summer. Source

SpaceX and ULA agree - Bruno: “Satellites are getting bigger and smaller.” Shotwell: “Disaggregated systems are very helpful to the launch industry.” Source

Market is not just demand, it's demand with money. A lot of smallsat guys dont have much money. That's why we ended Falcon 1. But with constellation replacement, small launchers may find a market. Source

After demonstrating reusable boosters, it’s now “soul-crushing” to even dispose of payload fairings now. Source

SpaceX needs a fully reusable rocket to get humans to other planets. Source

Hard to say how declining launch prices will affect emerging market for satellite servicing. Interest was driven in part by high launch prices. Source

Was this just copied/pasted from another forum somewhere?  What's with the inactive "Source" at the end of each line?  Please link your sources.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 03/13/2018 12:34 pm
Looks like it came from Twitter.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 03/13/2018 01:06 pm
Looks like it came from Twitter.

It's copied directly from a Reddit post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/83xx3k/shotwell_is_on_a_panel_with_bruno_israel_and/dvlgelc/

Next time I see that I'm just going to delete it.  Link your sources.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Nehkara on 03/13/2018 05:00 pm
Here's a properly formatted version of my Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/83xx3k/shotwell_is_on_a_panel_with_bruno_israel_and/dvlgelc/). These are all quotes from Gwynne Shotwell from the Satellite 2018 conference, with sources from Twitter:

- Will be “significant overlap” between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and BFR, given the effort required to develop Falcon vehicles and getting government certification for them.
Source (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/973296157081382919)

- Customers have accepted “flight-proven” first stages much faster than I expected. About half of our launches this year will be on reused first stages.
Source (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/973298338866106370)

- Block upgrades are behind us now, we can get cadence up; 9 flight-proven 1st stages launched so far, and 1/2 of this year's flights will use flight-proven stages. Customer acceptance happening faster than we thought.
Source (https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/973298447867670528)

- BFR will probably be orbital in 2020, but you should start seeing hops in 2019.
Source (https://twitter.com/CHenry_SN/status/973296165037969408)

- We are going to fly Spaceflight Inc's smallsat group in a dedicated flight this summer.
Source (https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/973301380382429184)

- SpaceX and ULA agree - Bruno: “Satellites are getting bigger and smaller.” Shotwell: “Disaggregated systems are very helpful to the launch industry.”
Source (https://twitter.com/spacesurfingirl/status/973301828677984256)

- Market is not just demand, it's demand with money. A lot of smallsat guys dont have much money. That's why we ended Falcon 1. But with constellation replacement, small launchers may find a market.
Source (https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/973303068421951488)

- After demonstrating reusable boosters, it’s now “soul-crushing” to even dispose of payload fairings now.
Source (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/973305568927649793)

- SpaceX needs a fully reusable rocket to get humans to other planets.
Source (https://twitter.com/IBD_GRich/status/973305680575778818)

- Hard to say how declining launch prices will affect emerging market for satellite servicing. Interest was driven in part by high launch prices.
Source (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/973308273607823360)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Inoeth on 03/13/2018 05:41 pm
My bad. I was in a rush and forgot to credit you and properly  hyper-link the sources. and yes it was from the /r/spacex post...

On another note, is there any word on if Elon will speak at this year's IAC or some other event that will focus solely on SpaceX and the BFR (As compared to the SXSW interview which while interesting and cool, was covering a broad range of his interests, ideas and companies)... I wonder if either towards the end of this year or early next year they'll do a 'BFR Reveal' not unlike the Dragon 2 reveal they did years ago.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 03/14/2018 04:47 am
Another talk features Josh Brost of SpaceX, 10:45-11:45am EST March 14.

Adapting the Government-Commercial Satcom Relationship for the 21st Century
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This panel will explore ideas for creating synergies and establishing collaboration for SATCOM between the US military and industry in an era during which we are seeing increasing commercial space innovation while at the same time threats to space capabilities are growing in number and sophistication. Areas explored will include: Are there mission sets or capabilities for which the USG should establish a "Commercial First" approach? Are there mission sets that require military-designed and operated systems? What initiatives might be undertaken by the Commercial SATCOM industry to foster greater use by the military? Are there practical approaches by which the US Government can achieve globally available, seamless multi-band communications which deliver reasonably resilient, reliable capability for all US Government customers and are there steps the SATCOM industry can take to make such approaches viable?

Oddly enough, Josh appears to have swapped conferences at the last second and will now instead be on a panel at the 2018 Goddard Symposium in Maryland. Thankfully, the vast majority of the Symposium, this talk included, will be streamed here. (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-gsfc-science-and-exploration) Fingers crossed for some juicy CRS/CCP updates.

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Innovative Partnerships: Commercial Perspectives - March 15, 10:50am EST
Moderator: Phil McAlister, Director, Commercial Space Flight Division, Human Exploration and Operations, NASA Headquarters
Panelists:
• Joshua Brost, Senior Director, Government Business Development, SpaceX
• Gregg Burgess, VP Technology and Engineering, Space Systems Group, Sierra Nevada Corporation
• John Reed, Chief Technologist Advanced Programs, United Launch Alliance
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 03/16/2018 08:49 am
Ooooooooh, the rare super awesome MIT lineup with an actual webcast and the promise of an archived video after it ends! All credit to Reddit /u/CProphet for the find.

Paul Wooster, SpaceX's Principal Mars Dev Engineer, will be giving a talk around 1:30pm EST. Livestream is at the link below.
http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/

Video is now up: https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/beyond-the-cradle-2018-03-10-a/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Terra Incognita on 03/16/2018 09:50 pm
Ooooooooh, the rare super awesome MIT lineup with an actual webcast and the promise of an archived video after it ends! All credit to Reddit /u/CProphet for the find.

Paul Wooster, SpaceX's Principal Mars Dev Engineer, will be giving a talk around 1:30pm EST. Livestream is at the link below.
http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/

Video is now up: https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/beyond-the-cradle-2018-03-10-a/
Is it just me or is anyone else having severe problems trying to play/download this?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 03/17/2018 03:48 am
Same here - freezes a lot.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/17/2018 07:29 am
Apart from first few seconds, plays fine in Safari on my iPad.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: LucR on 03/17/2018 01:10 pm
Froze a lot for me as well, I did an overnight full download and just finished watching it without any issues. Would love to put it on YouTube, but I suspect there would be rights issues...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 03/17/2018 01:16 pm
It's a 3.5GB file, so need fast connections. Alternatively, use file downloader to download https://video-dam.media.mit.edu/videos/beyond-the-cradle-2018-03-10-a/beyond-the-cradle-2018-03-10-a.mp4 to your harddrive and play it locally.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/18/2018 06:22 pm
SpaceX intro reel from Paul Wooster’s talk

https://youtu.be/fgwA3Y5tK2s (https://youtu.be/fgwA3Y5tK2s)

Som nice FH slow-mo shots
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 03/27/2018 08:08 pm
Tim Hughes will be speaking for 15 minutes at the 34th Space Symposium, 2-2:15pm MDT April 18. Not a clue if it will be broadcast anywhere :D

https://www.spacesymposium.org/speakers/tim-hughes

Edit: sigh... got an unequivocal "no we are not streaming a single thing" response, so there's that.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: IainMcClatchie on 03/28/2018 12:05 am
Hey in that intro reel, the center core of the Falcon Heavy has white grid fins while the boosters have black grid fins.  Does that mean the center core had aluminum fins?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cppetrie on 03/28/2018 12:13 am
Hey in that intro reel, the center core of the Falcon Heavy has white grid fins while the boosters have black grid fins.  Does that mean the center core had aluminum fins?
Yes. This was discussed when photos of heavy first showed up.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: niwax on 03/28/2018 11:26 am
Hey in that intro reel, the center core of the Falcon Heavy has white grid fins while the boosters have black grid fins.  Does that mean the center core had aluminum fins?
Yes. This was discussed when photos of heavy first showed up.

And after the launch, to roughly quote Musk from memory: "We're happy we only lost the center core, the outer ones had titanium fins. We needed those back."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 03/30/2018 04:09 pm
https://ted2018.ted.com/speakers#gwynne-shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell at TED
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 04/02/2018 06:07 pm
https://ted2018.ted.com/speakers#gwynne-shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell at TED

Wednesday, April 11, 11:00AM - 12:45PM PDT

It's an odd mishmash of random "techy" people, only other person involved in aerospace is Rodin Lyasoff, CEO of Airbus' Silicon Valley startup.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Nehkara on 04/09/2018 07:48 pm
Are there any SpaceX related talks expected for the Space Symposium?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rory on 04/09/2018 07:52 pm
Are there any SpaceX related talks expected for the Space Symposium?

Tim Hughes, SVP of Global Business & Government Affairs, will be speaking on April 18.

https://www.spacesymposium.org/speakers/tim-hughes
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 04/09/2018 08:16 pm
Are there any SpaceX related talks expected for the Space Symposium?

Reply #131 :P
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 04/11/2018 07:17 pm
https://ted2018.ted.com/speakers#gwynne-shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell at TED

Wednesday, April 11, 11:00AM - 12:45PM PDT

It's an odd mishmash of random "techy" people, only other person involved in aerospace is Rodin Lyasoff, CEO of Airbus' Silicon Valley startup.
It's today. Anybody able and willing to post the highlights?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 04/11/2018 07:42 pm
https://ted2018.ted.com/speakers#gwynne-shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell at TED

Wednesday, April 11, 11:00AM - 12:45PM PDT

It's an odd mishmash of random "techy" people, only other person involved in aerospace is Rodin Lyasoff, CEO of Airbus' Silicon Valley startup.
It's today. Anybody able and willing to post the highlights?

I'll have video access NET April 16. Their livestream pricing is basically a scam at $150 for a single day.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: guckyfan on 04/11/2018 08:46 pm
Posted in the reddit SpaceXlounge

https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/984154476226293760

Within a decade, @SpaceX plans to make rocket flights possible, so you'll be able to get from New York to Shanghai in an hour. Gwynne Shotwell #TED2018

A poster did not want to go into details but he said Gwynne Shotwell is BULLISH (in capital letters) on all aspects of BFR. One point above.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 04/11/2018 09:06 pm
Posted in the reddit SpaceXlounge

https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/984154476226293760

Within a decade, @SpaceX plans to make rocket flights possible, so you'll be able to get from New York to Shanghai in an hour. Gwynne Shotwell #TED2018

A poster did not want to go into details but he said Gwynne Shotwell is BULLISH (in capital letters) on all aspects of BFR. One point above.
https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/984151193474580480?s=20

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"We're standing on the shoulders of giants. We got to look at the rocket industry and developments to date and pick the best ideas, leverage them." — Gwynne Shotwell on what makes @SpaceX successful #TED2018
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Nehkara on 04/11/2018 09:29 pm
SpaceX's president revealed a key element that has made Elon Musk's rocket company so successful

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-ted-2018-4

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A key component of SpaceX's success, she said, has been the freedom that engineers there have to design rockets without having to build upon or integrate antiquated systems. As Shotwell described it, rocket scientists have created and constructed their enormous vehicles from a "clean sheet of paper."

Unlike rocket scientists at NASA and companies like Boeing, SpaceX's engineers didn't have any pre-designed technology that they "had to include" in their rockets, according to Shotwell, who is a mechanical engineer by training.

She went on to explain that SpaceX engineers got to look at the development of the rocket industry to date and pick only the "best ideas and leverage them," without having to design around "legacy components that maybe weren't the most reliable, or were particularly expensive."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 04/12/2018 12:58 am
Also, Shotwell talked about Earth P2P within that decade.

Wired.... (https://www.wired.com/story/spacexs-president-is-thinking-even-bigger-than-elon-musk/)

Quote
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The rockets would take off from launch pads on bodies of water outside of major cities, and Shotwell noted that the longest time spent traveling would be on the boat ride. SpaceX aims to introduce this service within a decade.

The moderator expressed skepticism on such an ambitious timeline. Shotwell did not waver in her response. “That’s my time, not Elon time.”
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: OM72 on 04/12/2018 01:18 am
SpaceX's president revealed a key element that has made Elon Musk's rocket company so successful

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-ted-2018-4

Quote
A key component of SpaceX's success, she said, has been the freedom that engineers there have to design rockets without having to build upon or integrate antiquated systems. As Shotwell described it, rocket scientists have created and constructed their enormous vehicles from a "clean sheet of paper."

Unlike rocket scientists at NASA and companies like Boeing, SpaceX's engineers didn't have any pre-designed technology that they "had to include" in their rockets, according to Shotwell, who is a mechanical engineer by training.

She went on to explain that SpaceX engineers got to look at the development of the rocket industry to date and pick only the "best ideas and leverage them," without having to design around "legacy components that maybe weren't the most reliable, or were particularly expensive."

On its face, this is a throwaway comment.  It seems it was intended to be a dig at Boeing.  And it seems it's a dig because Boeing is winning. 

There are no constraints within Boeing to build or design based on "this" or because supplier X has to be included for "that". 

Relative to her comment, there is rationale on learning from the past.  What has worked, what hasn't and correcting that.  This statement, on its face, implies they are better without having that.  And that is false. 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cppetrie on 04/12/2018 01:37 am
SpaceX's president revealed a key element that has made Elon Musk's rocket company so successful

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-ted-2018-4

Quote
A key component of SpaceX's success, she said, has been the freedom that engineers there have to design rockets without having to build upon or integrate antiquated systems. As Shotwell described it, rocket scientists have created and constructed their enormous vehicles from a "clean sheet of paper."

Unlike rocket scientists at NASA and companies like Boeing, SpaceX's engineers didn't have any pre-designed technology that they "had to include" in their rockets, according to Shotwell, who is a mechanical engineer by training.

She went on to explain that SpaceX engineers got to look at the development of the rocket industry to date and pick only the "best ideas and leverage them," without having to design around "legacy components that maybe weren't the most reliable, or were particularly expensive."

On its face, this is a throwaway comment.  It seems it was intended to be a dig at Boeing.  And it seems it's a dig because Boeing is winning. 
Winning at what exactly? I’m not implying their losing either, but what are they winning at?
Quote
There are no constraints within Boeing to build or design based on "this" or because supplier X has to be included for "that". 
SLS is absolutely required to use shuttle legacy bits and suppliers in its design and operation. That’s the whole point of the program.

Quote
Relative to her comment, there is rationale on learning from the past.  What has worked, what hasn't and correcting that.  This statement, on its face, implies they are better without having that.  And that is false.
It says the exact opposite of what you’re implying it says. It says specifically that they are free to look at what has been used in the past, take the best stuff that works well, and forge new ground elsewhere. How’s is that not exactly what you’d want them to be doing?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: OM72 on 04/12/2018 01:44 am
SpaceX's president revealed a key element that has made Elon Musk's rocket company so successful

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-ted-2018-4

Quote
A key component of SpaceX's success, she said, has been the freedom that engineers there have to design rockets without having to build upon or integrate antiquated systems. As Shotwell described it, rocket scientists have created and constructed their enormous vehicles from a "clean sheet of paper."

Unlike rocket scientists at NASA and companies like Boeing, SpaceX's engineers didn't have any pre-designed technology that they "had to include" in their rockets, according to Shotwell, who is a mechanical engineer by training.

She went on to explain that SpaceX engineers got to look at the development of the rocket industry to date and pick only the "best ideas and leverage them," without having to design around "legacy components that maybe weren't the most reliable, or were particularly expensive."

On its face, this is a throwaway comment.  It seems it was intended to be a dig at Boeing.  And it seems it's a dig because Boeing is winning. 
Winning at what exactly? I’m not implying their losing either, but what are they winning at?
Quote
There are no constraints within Boeing to build or design based on "this" or because supplier X has to be included for "that". 
SLS is absolutely required to use shuttle legacy bits and suppliers in its design and operation. That’s the whole point of the program.

Quote
Relative to her comment, there is rationale on learning from the past.  What has worked, what hasn't and correcting that.  This statement, on its face, implies they are better without having that.  And that is false.
It says the exact opposite of what you’re implying it says. It says specifically that they are free to look at what has been used in the past, take the best stuff that works well, and forge new ground elsewhere. How’s is that not exactly what you’d want them to be doing?

1.  CST-100 will be first to ISS

2.  SLS is not the definition of Boeing. 

3.  Ok, I'll give you that.  But that said, am I to assume because she said it, that this is a new thought process unique to only SpaceX?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 04/12/2018 02:00 am
2.  SLS is not the definition of Boeing. 

Boeing's CEO certainly thinks SLS is their rocket: https://www.space.com/39014-will-boeing-beat-spacex-to-mars.html

Quote
According to Fortune, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg was speaking on CNBC today when host Jim Cramer asked whether Boeing or SpaceX would "get a man on Mars first."

"Eventually we're going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket," Muilenburg said, according to Fortune.

BTW Boeing never said anything about CST-100 being first to ISS, they don't frame Commercial Crew as competition, thus there's no need for Shotwell to "dig at Boeing" for CST-100, why should she?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 04/12/2018 02:10 am
1.  CST-100 will be first to ISS

Gonna need a source there, preferably one that is not a crystal ball.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mme on 04/12/2018 02:31 am
...
On its face, this is a throwaway comment.  It seems it was intended to be a dig at Boeing.  And it seems it's a dig because Boeing is winning. 

There are no constraints within Boeing to build or design based on "this" or because supplier X has to be included for "that". 

Relative to her comment, there is rationale on learning from the past.  What has worked, what hasn't and correcting that.  This statement, on its face, implies they are better without having that.  And that is false.
I would not limit it to Boeing. It's a dig at all the US companies that failed to compete in the commercial launch business. SpaceX is clearly doing something differently. Please look at the attached chart and explain how Boeing is "winning." I have no animus toward Boeing but no one can afford to fly their rockets very often (Delta IV and soon SLS).
Title: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cppetrie on 04/12/2018 02:33 am
SpaceX's president revealed a key element that has made Elon Musk's rocket company so successful

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-ted-2018-4

Quote
A key component of SpaceX's success, she said, has been the freedom that engineers there have to design rockets without having to build upon or integrate antiquated systems. As Shotwell described it, rocket scientists have created and constructed their enormous vehicles from a "clean sheet of paper."

Unlike rocket scientists at NASA and companies like Boeing, SpaceX's engineers didn't have any pre-designed technology that they "had to include" in their rockets, according to Shotwell, who is a mechanical engineer by training.

She went on to explain that SpaceX engineers got to look at the development of the rocket industry to date and pick only the "best ideas and leverage them," without having to design around "legacy components that maybe weren't the most reliable, or were particularly expensive."

On its face, this is a throwaway comment.  It seems it was intended to be a dig at Boeing.  And it seems it's a dig because Boeing is winning. 
Winning at what exactly? I’m not implying their losing either, but what are they winning at?
Quote
There are no constraints within Boeing to build or design based on "this" or because supplier X has to be included for "that". 
SLS is absolutely required to use shuttle legacy bits and suppliers in its design and operation. That’s the whole point of the program.

Quote
Relative to her comment, there is rationale on learning from the past.  What has worked, what hasn't and correcting that.  This statement, on its face, implies they are better without having that.  And that is false.
It says the exact opposite of what you’re implying it says. It says specifically that they are free to look at what has been used in the past, take the best stuff that works well, and forge new ground elsewhere. How’s is that not exactly what you’d want them to be doing?

1.  CST-100 will be first to ISS

2.  SLS is not the definition of Boeing. 

3.  Ok, I'll give you that.  But that said, am I to assume because she said it, that this is a new thought process unique to only SpaceX?
Others already replied to 1 and 2. In the case of 1, I’ll also add that it would have been reasonable to assume Boeing would get there first at the beginning of the commercial crew program given their existing knowledge base and experience. That they are no further ahead than they are (and it is very debatable that they are in fact ahead), says something about SpaceX’s ability to develop a crewed vehicle.

On point 3, I don’t think that design philosophy is unique to SpaceX and they certainly didn’t invent it. However, it is pretty common practice for legacy companies to continue holding on to legacy technology rather break with it and forge new directions. Certainly some legacy companies have done it, but it is usually the newcomer that disrupts by forging new ground. I’m also didn’t take her comment as much as a slight against legacy rocket companies and NASA and more just an observation that the freedom to make a clean sheet design has been part of their success.

Edit: typo
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: envy887 on 04/12/2018 02:43 am
3.  Ok, I'll give you that.  But that said, am I to assume because she said it, that this is a new thought process unique to only SpaceX?

She didn't say it was unique to SpaceX, just part of what makes them successful at reaching their particular goals. Boeing and many other aerospace companies certainly subscribe to the theory of "heritage über alles" to a far greater extent than SpaceX does - which is fine for some goals. Less so for others.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: JBF on 04/12/2018 03:47 am
3.  Ok, I'll give you that.  But that said, am I to assume because she said it, that this is a new thought process unique to only SpaceX?

She didn't say it was unique to SpaceX, just part of what makes them successful at reaching their particular goals. Boeing and many other aerospace companies certainly subscribe to the theory of "heritage über alles" to a far greater extent than SpaceX does - which is fine for some goals. Less so for others.

It's not just in aerospace, any old company has this issue to deal with. The engineering department I work in spends about 35% of our time maintaining legacy code and hardware.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 04/12/2018 04:15 am
Take this to the appropriate discussion thread, and leave this thread for us to flag upcoming talks, please.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: woods170 on 04/12/2018 06:26 am
Also, Shotwell talked about Earth P2P within that decade.

Wired.... (https://www.wired.com/story/spacexs-president-is-thinking-even-bigger-than-elon-musk/)

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The rockets would take off from launch pads on bodies of water outside of major cities, and Shotwell noted that the longest time spent traveling would be on the boat ride. SpaceX aims to introduce this service within a decade.

The moderator expressed skepticism on such an ambitious timeline. Shotwell did not waver in her response. “That’s my time, not Elon time.”

Emphasis mine.

It would be good for the readers here to note that Gwynne's prior time-line predictions have been just a tad less unrealistic than Elon's. But generally unrealistic still.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/12/2018 01:27 pm
Different emphasis in this report on Gwynne's talk:

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At the 2018 TED Conference on Wednesday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell seemed for the first time to express an even grander vision than Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars.

Speaking to the crowd, Shotwell said she won't be content to land a SpaceX rocket on Mars, or even to reach more distant planets like Saturn or Pluto. Instead, she revealed that she ultimately hopes to meet up with whoever's out there in other solar systems.

"This is the first time I might out-vision Elon," she said of the SpaceX founder.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4 (http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/12/2018 01:37 pm
A phone-shot video of part of the new Mars BFR animation:

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The first human travel to Mars previewed by Gwynne from @SpaceX at #TED2018

https://twitter.com/parmeshs/status/984154967907844096
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: deruch on 04/12/2018 02:13 pm
Different emphasis in this report on Gwynne's talk:

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At the 2018 TED Conference on Wednesday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell seemed for the first time to express an even grander vision than Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars.

Speaking to the crowd, Shotwell said she won't be content to land a SpaceX rocket on Mars, or even to reach more distant planets like Saturn or Pluto. Instead, she revealed that she ultimately hopes to meet up with whoever's out there in other solar systems.

"This is the first time I might out-vision Elon," she said of the SpaceX founder.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4 (http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4)

Gwynne has in past talks mentioned her dreams of a future where travel to other solar systems is possible. 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ThePonjaX on 04/12/2018 04:33 pm
A phone-shot video of part of the new Mars BFR animation:

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The first human travel to Mars previewed by Gwynne from @SpaceX at #TED2018

https://twitter.com/parmeshs/status/984154967907844096

Me want that video full and HD please. I hope Spacex release it.

The refueling is different than the previous one on ITS.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AbuSimbel on 04/12/2018 04:39 pm
A phone-shot video of part of the new Mars BFR animation:

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The first human travel to Mars previewed by Gwynne from @SpaceX at #TED2018

https://twitter.com/parmeshs/status/984154967907844096

Me want that video full and HD please. I hope Spacex release it.

The refueling is different than the previous one on ITS.

Yep. People on Reddit also claim the rocket is taller than the IAC 2017 design, I wouldn't be surprised since there were some comments by Elon pointing to that. We'll see when the official video is released.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Jdeshetler on 04/12/2018 05:56 pm
Yep. People on Reddit also claim the rocket is taller than the IAC 2017 design, I wouldn't be surprised since there were some comments by Elon pointing to that. We'll see when the official video is released.

Looks like BFR is taller as much as 20% when comparing with water tower after this video was stablized and scaled correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwsGG_omT0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: envy887 on 04/12/2018 06:04 pm
Yep. People on Reddit also claim the rocket is taller than the IAC 2017 design, I wouldn't be surprised since there were some comments by Elon pointing to that. We'll see when the official video is released.

Looks like BFR is taller as much as 20% when comparing with water tower after this video was stablized and scaled correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwsGG_omT0

Pixel measuring and assuming 9 meters diameter, I get 100 meter height from that video. 2017 IAC was 106 meter height.

IMO it's the same height unless they made it wider.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 04/13/2018 03:16 am
Different emphasis in this report on Gwynne's talk:

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At the 2018 TED Conference on Wednesday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell seemed for the first time to express an even grander vision than Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars.

Speaking to the crowd, Shotwell said she won't be content to land a SpaceX rocket on Mars, or even to reach more distant planets like Saturn or Pluto. Instead, she revealed that she ultimately hopes to meet up with whoever's out there in other solar systems.

"This is the first time I might out-vision Elon," she said of the SpaceX founder.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4 (http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4)

Gwynne has in past talks mentioned her dreams of a future where travel to other solar systems is possible.
Indeed. Gwynne is so awesome, and a refreshing change from Musk's leadership style. Musk is clearly an effective leader, but I could easily see being stifled if there wasn't also Gwynne there doing her own leading. They make an incredibly effective pair, and Musk lucked out incredibly by finding her.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Johnnyhinbos on 04/13/2018 05:25 am
Different emphasis in this report on Gwynne's talk:

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At the 2018 TED Conference on Wednesday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell seemed for the first time to express an even grander vision than Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars.

Speaking to the crowd, Shotwell said she won't be content to land a SpaceX rocket on Mars, or even to reach more distant planets like Saturn or Pluto. Instead, she revealed that she ultimately hopes to meet up with whoever's out there in other solar systems.

"This is the first time I might out-vision Elon," she said of the SpaceX founder.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4 (http://uk.businessinsider.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-ted-mars-is-a-fixer-upper-2018-4)

Gwynne has in past talks mentioned her dreams of a future where travel to other solar systems is possible.
Indeed. Gwynne is so awesome, and a refreshing change from Musk's leadership style. Musk is clearly an effective leader, but I could easily see being stifled if there wasn't also Gwynne there doing her own leading. They make an incredibly effective pair, and Musk lucked out incredibly by finding her.
I think Elon agrees...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/984650810909851648?s=21
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/13/2018 08:32 am
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Has the BFR/BFS been stretched in height? The video Gwynne showed at Ted Talks looks taller than the one in the E2E video

https://twitter.com/voltzcoreaudio/status/984664340627275776

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Maybe a little 😉

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/984689905874817029
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Bynaus on 04/13/2018 08:57 am
Perhaps in reaction to the renewed interest in the Moon? E.g., to avoid having to stage from HEO (which is problematic due to radiation exposure), and instead do a lunar landing and return directly after (single?) refueling in LEO?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RotoSequence on 04/13/2018 08:59 am
Perhaps in reaction to the renewed interest in the Moon? E.g., to avoid having to stage from HEO (which is problematic due to radiation exposure), and instead do a lunar landing and return directly after (single?) refueling in LEO?

My burning question is, what changed that lets the rocket handle so much more fuel mass at liftoff?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: nacnud on 04/13/2018 09:25 am
Bigger fuel tanks?

To avoid staging in HEO you could use the performance needed to get from LEO to HEO to increase the mass of the ship by increasing the size of the fuel tanks. Then refuel in LEO for further destinations. This may enable an Earth -> LEO (refuel) Moon -> Earth architecture. You don't have to launch the BFS with fuel tanks full to start with.

As mentioned above the other thought is the thrust of the raptors may have increased which would also mean a stretch would be beneficial.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RotoSequence on 04/13/2018 09:39 am
Bigger fuel tanks?

To avoid staging in HEO you could use the performance needed to get from LEO to HEO to increase the mass of the ship by increasing the size of the fuel tanks. Then refuel in LEO for further destinations. This may enable an Earth -> LEO (refuel) Moon -> Earth architecture. You don't have to launch the BFS with fuel tanks full to start with.

As mentioned above the other thought is the thrust of the raptors may have increased which would also mean a stretch would be beneficial.

If they'd only stretched the ship, that explanation would probably be sufficient, but they made the booster longer, too.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: nacnud on 04/13/2018 09:47 am
Yep, it could also be a little bit of both idea. You'd need to check the ratio of BFB to BFS stretch.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 04/13/2018 09:50 am
Please, this thread is just for raising awareness of SpaceX talks, not discussing them :(
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Chris Bergin on 04/13/2018 01:06 pm
Discuss the above on the relevant threads. This is about upcoming talks and listing them.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jeffkruse on 04/13/2018 03:32 pm
Are there any SpaceX related talks expected for the Space Symposium?

Tim Hughes, SVP of Global Business & Government Affairs, will be speaking on April 18.

https://www.spacesymposium.org/speakers/tim-hughes

This will be my first time attending the Space symposium, will Tim Hughes speech be open to anyone at the symposium?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Cheapchips on 04/19/2018 07:26 pm
Gwynne closing the Skoll conference. No new info other than an answer to which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoHAChEcfY
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 04/23/2018 03:21 am
I saw a couple of SpaceX interviews linked from Reddit threads over the last couple days:

Hans Koenigsmann at NEAF on April 22:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-rXO7kI-8&t=4h3m0s
edit: Hans starts at 4h3m mark.

He talks a lot about the FH launch.  I don't remember hearing before that the center core had used engines.  When he showed the picture of the BFR tooling (9m diameter) he made a point of telling everyone that the project is going to happen but we need to be patient as this is a self-funded project and they need to be flexible in how they do it. (Discussion should go to a FH thread, or make a new thread to discuss the presentation.)



An interview with Gwynne about her background and leadership of SpaceX (not really any technical details in this one):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uidKUNCi4M
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: lonestriker on 04/23/2018 05:26 am
I saw a couple of SpaceX interviews linked from Reddit threads over the last couple days:

Hans Koenigsmann at NEAF on April 22:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-rXO7kI-8&t=4h3m0s

[...]


Hans' talk starts after the 4:00 hour mark in case anyone else wants to save time fast-forwarding in small chunks like I did.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: niwax on 04/23/2018 09:13 am
Some interesting stuff in that talk. I'd like to hear this guy talk more about their tech.

FH has an incredible amount of engine starts, with 28 engines and multiple restarts for landing and orbital maneuvering
FH could do 3x RTLS if they had enough landing pads
The hardest part of ascent is the hill to the launchpad
Booster landing guidance is all GPS with some secret sauce, presumably landing site dGPS
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 04/23/2018 10:44 am
Tom Mueller at the International Space Development Conference:
http://isdc2018.nss.org/speakers/
http://isdc2018.nss.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ISDC-2018-Thursday-SCHEDULE-4-19-18.pdf

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eagandale4114 on 04/23/2018 06:18 pm
Over on reddit there is an AMA tomorrow morning at 9:30 am with Andy Lambert the VP of production. The thread opens at 8:30 am for any questions.

Link to announcement thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/8ecjig/ama_with_andy_lambert_spacex_vp_of_production/?st=jgckbv7o&sh=f6560eef)

edit/gongora:  That's 9:30am PDT (UTC-7)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cletus on 04/23/2018 08:45 pm
Hans Koenigsmann at NEAF on April 22:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-rXO7kI-8&t=4h3m0s
edit: Hans starts at 4h3m mark.

At 4:19:59 the video briefly shows the side booster being integrated. Is that footage available anywhere else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-rXO7kI-8&t=4h19m59s
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/23/2018 09:49 pm
At 4:19:59 the video briefly shows the side booster being integrated. Is that footage available anywhere else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va-rXO7kI-8&t=4h19m59s

It’s just the beginning of SpaceX’s webcast of the FH launch.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Inoeth on 04/24/2018 01:35 am
Is it just me or has SpaceX (mostly Gwyenne but sometimes others) been participating in more talks lately than in the past?

On that note, is there any word on if Elon (or perhaps someone else) will be at the IAC this year? When did we learn that Elon was going to be at the last one- i think it was around June ish that we found out?

I wonder about the possibility of SpaceX holding off on IAC this year and doing a presentation of BFR(S) in the new LA factory when that's built sometime next year - kind of like how they originally showcased Dragon 2... tho this being on a much larger scale...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 04/24/2018 05:08 am
Is it just me or has SpaceX (mostly Gwyenne but sometimes others) been participating in more talks lately than in the past?

On that note, is there any word on if Elon (or perhaps someone else) will be at the IAC this year? When did we learn that Elon was going to be at the last one- i think it was around June ish that we found out?

I wonder about the possibility of SpaceX holding off on IAC this year and doing a presentation of BFR(S) in the new LA factory when that's built sometime next year - kind of like how they originally showcased Dragon 2... tho this being on a much larger scale...
Thought the very same thing. It seems there is a coordinated PR campaign going on.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RotoSequence on 04/24/2018 09:56 pm
Thought the very same thing. It seems there is a coordinated PR campaign going on.
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It's probably necessary, if they want broad, general public support of SpaceX collecting Government funding for vehicle development.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 04/24/2018 11:15 pm
This is not a general discussion thread.  Also even if you are posting these thoughts in a general discussion thread, you may want to consider whether the thing you're trying to tie to the current round of talks even makes any sense.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 04/28/2018 09:21 pm
Tom Mueller at the International Space Development Conference:
http://isdc2018.nss.org/speakers/
http://isdc2018.nss.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ISDC-2018-Thursday-SCHEDULE-4-19-18.pdf

Just confirmed again: https://twitter.com/ISDC/status/989990916990668800

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SpaceX CTO of Propulsion Development Tom Mueller is joining the luminaries speaking at http://isdc2018.nss.org/ ! Mueller led the development of the famed Merlin engine and the new Raptor engine powering the new fully reusable Big Falcon Rocket. #SpaceX #ElonMusk #FalconHeavy #BFR
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 05/02/2018 07:18 am
Josh Brost, SpaceX Senior Director, Government Business Development (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-brost-3156a23) on May 8, 2018 at The Humans to Mars Summit (https://h2m.exploremars.org/).
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 05/08/2018 10:48 am
Josh Brost, SpaceX Senior Director, Government Business Development (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-brost-3156a23) on May 8, 2018 at The Humans to Mars Summit (https://h2m.exploremars.org/).

That's today. Anybody there to keep us informed?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 05/08/2018 11:14 am
Josh Brost, SpaceX Senior Director, Government Business Development (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-brost-3156a23) on May 8, 2018 at The Humans to Mars Summit (https://h2m.exploremars.org/).

That's today. Anybody there to keep us informed?

All the SpaceX stuff is Wednesday. Regardless, I belief most events will be streamed.
https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2018
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: biosehnsucht on 05/08/2018 10:10 pm
Will we be able to rewind the live streams or catch them after the fact on Youtube the same day? Or do we have to be watching at exactly the right time?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 05/08/2018 11:28 pm
Will we be able to rewind the live streams or catch them after the fact on Youtube the same day? Or do we have to be watching at exactly the right time?

It's likely others will screen capture the livestreams and upload elsewhere. Livestream.com doesn't have replays.

Edit: Actually, looks like Livestream does now archive streams after the fact. Today's are already watchable.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 05/09/2018 06:28 pm
::) ::) ::) sigh... Josh Brost is definitely not on the 2-5pm Exploration Architectures panel today, no warning or comment from the moderator.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 05/09/2018 06:41 pm
Yea, looks like he was replaced.  I didn't think there would be anything new anyhow. 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 05/09/2018 07:41 pm
Yea, looks like he was replaced.  I didn't think there would be anything new anyhow.

Hey, the talk that proceeded it was extremely interesting :) He's an exceptional speaker, especially when there are other foils on the panel. He didn't necessarily give anything uniquely new, but it did reiterate SpaceX's BFR targets, Block 5, and just generally adds another layer of data to the SpaceX canon.

Super useful as a journalist to have actual employees who aren't just figureheads speak at length about their company and answer questions. Jogs the memory :) I was very much looking forward to a THREE HOUR panel :o But shouldn't be surprised that he couldn't swing that, he is a valuable and senior employee.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 05/09/2018 07:50 pm
Yes it was very good to hear those points reiterated to provide more confidence. 

It occurs to me though that if someone like Buzz wants an office for Moon/Mars exploration to better integrate the Blue/SpaceX plans into NASA plans, they could start with these conferences.  There is a clear distinction between SpaceX plans and NASA plans.  Near the end of the afternoon session someone mentioned Josh was originally supposed to be on the panel and that he would have provided some contrast (not the right word but close).

I'd like to see the essence of what Buzz asked come about.  Find a way to coalesce the ideas that Blue and SpaceX have with NASA without any interference, stumbling blocks or slowdowns.

I am hopeful that something comes of the idea of Exploration Zones to ease pressure from planetary protection.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cebri on 05/09/2018 08:06 pm
https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2018/videos/174579723

Link to the talk. Begins around 02:40:00
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 05/09/2018 09:05 pm
::) ::) ::) sigh... Josh Brost is definitely not on the 2-5pm Exploration Architectures panel today, no warning or comment from the moderator.

Joshua Brost you say?

Twitter... (http://"https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/994240069744676864?s=19")

Jeff Foust ✓ @jeff_foust (Space News)
Brost: as early as the first half of next year well start doing vertical takeoff and landing tests of our first BFR upper stage. #HumansToMars
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 05/09/2018 09:10 pm
::) ::) ::) sigh... Josh Brost is definitely not on the 2-5pm Exploration Architectures panel today, no warning or comment from the moderator.

Joshua Brost you say?

Twitter... (http://"https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/994240069744676864?s=19")

Jeff Foust ✓ @jeff_foust (Space News)
Brost: as early as the first half of next year well start doing vertical takeoff and landing tests of our first BFR upper stage. #HumansToMars

That is from the morning session
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 05/11/2018 03:20 am
Yes it was very good to hear those points reiterated to provide more confidence. 

It occurs to me though that if someone like Buzz wants an office for Moon/Mars exploration to better integrate the Blue/SpaceX plans into NASA plans, they could start with these conferences.  There is a clear distinction between SpaceX plans and NASA plans.  Near the end of the afternoon session someone mentioned Josh was originally supposed to be on the panel and that he would have provided some contrast (not the right word but close).

I'd like to see the essence of what Buzz asked come about.  Find a way to coalesce the ideas that Blue and SpaceX have with NASA without any interference, stumbling blocks or slowdowns.

I am hopeful that something comes of the idea of Exploration Zones to ease pressure from planetary protection.

Buzz is hilarious to me. He always stands by the microphone at these conferences waiting to speak (and is often the last question). I think a lot in the space community find it super annoying, but I just love his ramblings for the spectacle of it.

I hope I'm like him as an old man.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: niwax on 05/11/2018 07:53 am
Buzz is hilarious to me. He always stands by the microphone at these conferences waiting to speak (and is often the last question). I think a lot in the space community find it super annoying, but I just love his ramblings for the spectacle of it.

I hope I'm like him as an old man.

I kinda like it, it gives everyone the chance to recap and say a few final words.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AncientU on 05/16/2018 01:23 pm
Tom Mueller:
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SpaceX Founding Employee Tom Mueller to Speak at International Space Development Conference
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Mueller will be providing the Thursday, May 24th Plenary Address at the ISDC in Los Angeles, CA. If you attend, you have a chance to hear the latest information on SpaceX's Mars plans.
:D
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=55128
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 05/20/2018 07:53 pm
Tom Mueller at the International Space Development Conference:
http://isdc2018.nss.org/speakers/
http://isdc2018.nss.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ISDC-2018-Thursday-SCHEDULE-4-19-18.pdf

Just confirmed again: https://twitter.com/ISDC/status/989990916990668800

Quote
SpaceX CTO of Propulsion Development Tom Mueller is joining the luminaries speaking at http://isdc2018.nss.org/ ! Mueller led the development of the famed Merlin engine and the new Raptor engine powering the new fully reusable Big Falcon Rocket. #SpaceX #ElonMusk #FalconHeavy #BFR
Reminder: Still on track for next Thursday.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 05/22/2018 12:27 am
Tweet from Jodi Gralnick (https://twitter.com/jodigralnick/status/998692403241402368)
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ALL DAY TOMORROW ON @CNBC: @MorganLBrennan has an exclusive look at @SpaceX, including a sitdown with President & COO Gwynne Shotwell. Starting 810amET on @SquawkCNBC
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 05/22/2018 01:53 am
Tweet from Jodi Gralnick (https://twitter.com/jodigralnick/status/998692403241402368)
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ALL DAY TOMORROW ON @CNBC: @MorganLBrennan has an exclusive look at @SpaceX, including a sitdown with President & COO Gwynne Shotwell. Starting 810amET on @SquawkCNBC

expect the worst, hope for the best...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AncientU on 05/22/2018 10:21 am
CNBC:
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ALL DAY TOMORROW ON @CNBC: @MorganLBrennan has an exclusive look at @SpaceX, including a sitdown with President & COO Gwynne Shotwell. Starting 810amET on @SquawkCNBC
https://twitter.com/jodigralnick/status/998692403241402368
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Chris Bergin on 05/22/2018 10:20 pm
Let's keep this thread on pointers to upcoming talks, as that's what the thread title is. ;)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 05/22/2018 10:31 pm
Tweet from Jodi Gralnick (https://twitter.com/jodigralnick/status/998692403241402368)
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ALL DAY TOMORROW ON @CNBC: @MorganLBrennan has an exclusive look at @SpaceX, including a sitdown with President & COO Gwynne Shotwell. Starting 810amET on @SquawkCNBC

Discussion Thread: CNBC Interview with Gwynne May 22, 2018 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45719.0)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: paolozamparutti on 05/24/2018 11:39 am
are there news about Tom Mueller speak?
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=55128
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 05/24/2018 02:35 pm
Too early.  Has not spoken yet 8:30AM California time = 11:30AM Eastern time
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/24/2018 04:25 pm
Too early.  Has not spoken yet 8:30AM California time = 11:30AM Eastern time

Started a new thread for Tom's keynote: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45729.0 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45729.0)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ZachF on 06/12/2018 03:41 pm
Looks like Elon Musk will be on Marques Brownlee's/MBKHD's youtube channel and Joe Rogan's podcast sometime soon.

https://twitter.com/Off_thewalls/status/1005876071797936128

Wouldn't expect huge new juicy SpaceX info, but should be interesting.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 07/29/2018 11:50 pm
Could be BFR update?

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Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, @SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/92y2sn/paul_wooster_principal_mars_development_engineer/

Edit to add: according to draft convention schedule (http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf) talk is at 9:30am.

http://www.marssociety.org/conventions/2018/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: deruch on 07/31/2018 08:54 am
Could be BFR update?

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Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, @SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/92y2sn/paul_wooster_principal_mars_development_engineer/

Edit to add: according to draft convention schedule (http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf) talk is at 9:30am.

Frankly, I don't think anyone not named Elon is going to be giving any significant updates to BFR/SpaceX's Mars plans/etc.  SpaceX is pretty disciplined about who presents their messaging.  For business, it's Gwynne.  For technology and futurism, it's Elon.  Other team members may talk about their respective areas, but don't break significant new ground.  For them, it's usually lots of "This is how we've gotten here", where here is whatever Elon's latest public roadmap shows.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Cheapchips on 07/31/2018 05:17 pm
From the SX reddit, Paul Wooster gave a talk to MEPAG back in Feb.  I wonder if his Aug talk is essentially a revision of the material.  From pdf summary, with a FH/BFR capacity mix up.

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A walk-on presentation was given by Paul Wooster of SpaceX which highlighted the recent successful test of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle with its potentially very large payload capacity (100 metric tons). Using the Falcon Heavy and development of an even larger Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) launcher are the basis of their ambitious plans for the future exploration and colonization of Mars, potentially launching missions to Mars within the early 2020s. SpaceX’s current landing site candidates for Mars were shown, having been chosen to provide access to near-surface ice, few landing site hazards (such as large rocks), and enough space for potentially growing a sizeable outpost. The ice sites are in high mid-latitudes and the search for lower latitude candidates, which are preferred, continues. Previously, MEPAG had been told that SpaceX could transport for-fee payloads to the Mars surface. In response to questions, Paul iterated that there is likely to be capacity for secondary payloads on either the Falcon Heavy or BFR launchers, although details remain to be negotiated once the launcher capabilities are firmly established.

https://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/meeting/2018-02/MEPAG%20VM1%20Notes%20v3.pdf
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Norm38 on 08/10/2018 05:17 pm
Is Musk not at IAC2018 this year?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 08/10/2018 07:34 pm
Is Musk not at IAC2018 this year?

Not scheduled to present this year as he was for the past 2 years.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mlindner on 08/12/2018 02:32 pm
There's a SpaceX press conference apparently happening on Monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEQbWs7214&feature=youtu.be&t=1072
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/12/2018 03:10 pm
Yes, it's the crew meet and greet like the Starliner one the other day. We have Jack going there for NSF.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 08/16/2018 01:57 am
The Air Force Air, Space & Cyber Conference next month has a spot carved out for "SpaceX Remarks" 17-Sep-2018. 

https://www.afa.org/events/Conference/Agenda1 (https://www.afa.org/events/Conference/Agenda1)

Bezoz is a keynote speaker.

Gwynne is speaking.

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SpaceX President to Speak at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spacex-president-to-speak-at-afas-air-space--cyber-conference-300697733.html)
     
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Air Force Association (AFA) announced today that Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, will provide a keynote address during AFA's 2018 Air, Space & Cyber Conference held September 17-19, 2018 in National Harbor, Md.

Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 70 launches, representing more than $10 billion in business.

"Our Air Force needs to work closer with industry than ever to fulfill our space mission," said AFA President Gen Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret). "AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference is the perfect venue to facilitate strengthening that great partnership."

As the world's leading launch services provider, Shotwell will discuss partnering with the Air Force in space from the SpaceX perspective.

SpaceX achieved the first re-flight of an orbital class rocket in 2017, and the company now regularly launches flight-proven rockets. In 2018, SpaceX began launching Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two.

More than 9,000 attendees registered for the 2017 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, a 24 percent increase from the previous year. This year, the event will feature exhibits from 137 companies and organizations, displaying their latest technological advancements throughout the 100,000 square foot exposition hall.

Over 100 distinguished speakers will participate on more than 35 panels and sessions, including major addresses by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein, and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright. 

Learn more and register for the 2018 Air, Space & Cyber Conference at www.afa.org/airspacecyber. 

The Air Force Association is a non-profit, independent, professional military and aerospace education association. Our mission is to promote a dominant United States Air Force and a strong national defense, and to honor Airmen and our Air Force Heritage.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Callezetter on 08/17/2018 08:42 am
Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th, 9:30 AM

https://forums.teslarati.com/threads/paul-wooster-principal-mars-development-engineer-spacex-will-address-mars-society-convention.13005/

http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf?mc_cid=7697afa7af&mc_eid=a2614453fb
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 08/24/2018 08:45 am
Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th, 9:30 AM

https://forums.teslarati.com/threads/paul-wooster-principal-mars-development-engineer-spacex-will-address-mars-society-convention.13005/

http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf?mc_cid=7697afa7af&mc_eid=a2614453fb

Reminder: That's tomorrow!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: geza on 08/24/2018 02:59 pm
Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th, 9:30 AM

https://forums.teslarati.com/threads/paul-wooster-principal-mars-development-engineer-spacex-will-address-mars-society-convention.13005/

http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf?mc_cid=7697afa7af&mc_eid=a2614453fb
Video-link?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 08/24/2018 03:07 pm
Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th, 9:30 AM

https://forums.teslarati.com/threads/paul-wooster-principal-mars-development-engineer-spacex-will-address-mars-society-convention.13005/

http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf?mc_cid=7697afa7af&mc_eid=a2614453fb
Video-link?

Just go to www.marssociety.org (http://www.marssociety.org) home page.  They have the streaming feed there.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Nomadd on 08/24/2018 06:33 pm
Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th, 9:30 AM

https://forums.teslarati.com/threads/paul-wooster-principal-mars-development-engineer-spacex-will-address-mars-society-convention.13005/

http://www.marssociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Schedule_21st_Mars_Society_Convention.pdf?mc_cid=7697afa7af&mc_eid=a2614453fb
Video-link?

Just go to www.marssociety.org (http://www.marssociety.org) home page.  They have the streaming feed there.
Not a bad place. I've asked a few questions about TESS and Kilopower and am trying to think of some for Paul, but I think there's going to be some competition for that. It's the 30 minutes that a lot of people are here for.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Johnnyhinbos on 08/25/2018 04:09 pm
I believe Paul Wooster is going to speak at 12:30 EDT today (9:30 PDT), but the livestream doesn't seem to be following the schedule. Anyone else watching the stream (which, by the way, is horrible - the bandwidth is so low it has rendered the audio almost unintelligible)?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 08/25/2018 04:14 pm
UPDATE: started new thread for Paul’s talk to avoid cluttering this one:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46249.0 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46249.0)

Direct stream link for convenience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzo8BWBCkc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzo8BWBCkc)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: geza on 08/25/2018 04:16 pm
I am watching the a live stream (I suppose) on the Mars Society page; it should be the lecture before the SpaceX one, about the rovers. Almost unintelligible...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: kdhilliard on 08/25/2018 05:34 pm
Paul Wooster, Principal Mars Development Engineer, SpaceX Will Address Mars Society Convention On SpaceX's Plans For Mars on August 25th, 9:30 AM

Discussion thread: Paul Wooster, Mars Society Convention Talk, August 25th 2018 (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46249.0)

Summary: No new information, just a rehash of what we have already heard.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 08/31/2018 06:29 am
Gwynne Shotwell in Madrid:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/9bnya4/questions_for_gwynne_shotwell/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: speedevil on 08/31/2018 10:54 am
Gwynne Shotwell in Madrid:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/9bnya4/questions_for_gwynne_shotwell/
"next week" - on a post on Thursday 30th.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 09/06/2018 12:12 am
Is Elon supposed to be interviewed by Joe Rogan tonight?
Yes.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 09/06/2018 01:18 pm
Rogan @9:30PM Pacific Time

Miss it live?

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/07/2018 06:09 am
https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI (https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 09/07/2018 06:34 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI)

This is so so so bad, I strongly recommend not watching this and just reading whatever articles come out of it tomorrow. Elon's Elon but the interviewer basically could not be any more useless.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mme on 09/07/2018 06:22 pm
...


This is so so so bad, I strongly recommend not watching this and just reading whatever articles come out of it tomorrow. Elon's Elon but the interviewer basically could not be any more useless.
So far all I've seen mentioned is that he drink whiskey and smoked a joint and people are freaking out about that. Joe Rogan annoys me and since you seem to have suffered through it can you report on anything else?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 09/07/2018 06:45 pm
It was a talk show, not an interview with a space journalist.  It really wasn't SpaceX related, so not much reason to discuss it here.  (I didn't think it was that bad, but I also didn't expect it to be the BFR update or anything like that.)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: envy887 on 09/07/2018 07:54 pm
It was a talk show, not an interview with a space journalist.  It really wasn't SpaceX related, so not much reason to discuss it here.  (I didn't think it was that bad, but I also didn't expect it to be the BFR update or anything like that.)

Space got 16 mentions, rocket 7 mentions, and Mars 2 mentions. Doesn't appear to be anything new about SpaceX or BFR, so probably not even worth a splinter thread.

https://fluiddata.com/episode/view/139281611?term=rocket
https://fluiddata.com/episode/view/139281611?term=mars
https://fluiddata.com/episode/view/139281611?term=space
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Callezetter on 09/07/2018 09:38 pm
The Joe Rogan talk is a really great and somewhat rare look into a very personal and naked part of Elon. What a treat!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 09/08/2018 07:12 pm
It was a talk show, not an interview with a space journalist.  It really wasn't SpaceX related, so not much reason to discuss it here.  (I didn't think it was that bad, but I also didn't expect it to be the BFR update or anything like that.)

Space got 16 mentions, rocket 7 mentions, and Mars 2 mentions. Doesn't appear to be anything new about SpaceX or BFR, so probably not even worth a splinter thread.

https://fluiddata.com/episode/view/139281611?term=rocket
https://fluiddata.com/episode/view/139281611?term=mars
https://fluiddata.com/episode/view/139281611?term=space

I am not watching the video based on respected comments here (thanks for saving me) can we conclude that the BFR update Musk promised "in a month or so" going on 3 months now has yet to happen?  Wait for another tweet?

In other words, "These are not the droids you're looking for"
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 09/11/2018 01:31 am
IAC2018

Hans Koenigsmann

Vice President of Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX

Reusability: The Key to Reliability and Affordability

Wednesday 3 October 2018, 11:20 – 12:20

Location: Bremen Conference Center – DLR Hall

Link...(statement) (http://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2018/global-networking-forum/wednesday-dlr-hall-1120-1220-reusability-the-key-to-reliability-and-affordability/)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Joffan on 09/11/2018 07:30 pm
Some snippets coming through from Gwynne Shotwell on the launch services panel at World Satellite Business Week in Paris, e.g. Jeff Foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) tweeting:

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Shotwell: decline in GEO business is not a “crushing blow” for us. Seeing strong growth in DOD business, but also later with commercial crew: “7 billion potential payloads” #WSBW

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Shotwell: Falcon 9 first stages come back in much better shape than anticipated. Have refurbishment time down to four weeks; goal is still a one-day turnaround next year. #WSBW
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 09/12/2018 07:16 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWPaopcU_hE

Transcript (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/9eysmj/september_10th_gwynne_shotwell_qa_session_45min/e5t88c9) from reddit thanks to Jack Lishman (https://www.reddit.com/user/jclishman):

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02:10
Before SpaceX even made orbit, customers were brought to the factory, and were excited to be a part of something different.

03:09

    Q: "What's been the biggest challenge being in the industry that's so male-dominated?"

    A: "I've been really lucky to work for companies where there wasn't an obvious bias. For sure at SpaceX. The only thing that matters at SpaceX is how good your work is. Sex, who you're sleeping with, whether you go church or not, what color is your skin, that doesn't matter."

04:30

    Was in slippers and a robe in her hotel room for the launch, could rely on all 7,000 employees.

06:50

    BFR will allow incredible flexibility. Could be used to retrieve a satellite in it's payload bay. BFR will allow people to work and live in space, and deploy technology that could not be previously. Will have an 8.5m diameter payload bay, which is "Big... big."

07:08

    Will be an announcement soon on SpaceX tourism.

08:15

    Q: "How will the recent discovery of liquid water on Mars change SpaceX's colonization strategy?

    A: "There has to be water on Mars for our system to work, because it's a LOX/Methane system. Knowledge of liquid water on the surface definitely makes things more exciting, though.

09:30

    Q: "What will SpaceX's relationship with the ESA look like?"

    A: "We won't be going to Mars on our own, will be doing it on collaboration with NASA and the ESA. There's so many elements of the trip that we're not thinking about, that we're hoping other organizations pitch in. Living on the surface of Mars will be like extreme camping, for a hundred years."

11:30

    A lot of Falcon 1 was made by other people, notably the structure/airframe. SpaceX wanted to own the engines, operations, and software. Electronics were 50/50.

    Europe has quite good composite technology compared to the US, could be collaboration there.

14:15

    We broke our HR team growing the company so fast. Will try not to do that again.

    "I try to meet with every employee once a year/year and a half."

14:50

    Q: "After Mars colonization, does SpaceX see itself being in charge of the politics/government?"

    A: "We'll have to figure out what the right way to start a settlement on Mars is. I don't think we should be in charge of the government there."

16:20

    Asteroid mining is an important business, but only to use as a capability to go further. Don't know if it'll ever be cost effective.

17:10

    Tourism is inevitable, need to make sure we don't do it too soon. Bring up test pilots first, and families after.

18:35

    Q: "How have you managed to keep a startup mentality in a company that's grown so big, especially in an industry that's generally moved in a bureaucratic way?"

    A: "We're not as startup-y as we want to still be. Have had bureaucracy creep in, have tried to beat it back by engaging with employees. My suggestion box is really important. Employees know that if something's in their way, some dumb rule, that they're supposed to raise their hand and tell us. We do try to maintain that culture. The key is to continue to have really insanely ambitious goals. Every new project is a startup, even if the company isn't. Doing that next big thing is really hard, and it keeps people motivated."

20:00

    Q: "How have US regulations limited the amount you can collaborate with other countries?"

    A: "The State Department makes our lives very difficult from that perspective. There is almost no collaboration we can do, unless it's under the auspices of government-to-government agreements. Even hard to hire international employees. The US does not have a corner on the market of great engineers. We want to be able to hire talent wherever it sits."

23:00

    Software team is relatively small, ~100 people.

    Vast majority of the employees at SpaceX are technical. Tiny communications team, medium-ish sized finance team.

26:00

    Putting people in space is incredibly important to humanity. Since the advent of SpaceX, everyone in the space industry is happy (except other launch providers). Everybody has dropped their price.

28:30

    Q: "What is your relationship managing a company with Elon?" (Might have butchered this question, but I think that's what he meant.)

    A: "Elon is my boss. He's the chairman of the board, primary shareholder. Just to be clear, I run the company the way he wants me to. We do divide our time. He focuses on technology and innovation, and I focus on day-to-day operations. I love working for Elon. I've worked for him for 16 years. He's funny, really smart, very straightforward. The media casts him in two ways: One that he's this god that no one gets near, which is also foolish, because he can be very down-to-earth. Or that he's this evil person, which is also ridiculous. He just wants to do great things for people. He started SpaceX because he wanted to go to Mars, and he didn't see that any other organization was going to go do it. He's an extraordinary man. I would not want to be him, by the way. Anything you do. Anything! Shows up in the media, it's ridiculous. You can't live your life that way."

32:30

Question from r/SpaceX!

    Q: "How will ITAR work with BFR Earth-to-Earth? (He uses landing at Shanghai as an example)"

    A: "We'll land on our own platform that's out at sea. Largely because cities probably won't want something hovering over their billion dollar buildings. It's also very loud. (Notably sonic booms.) Will land in international waters."

    Q: He also asks how women at SpaceX balance work and family, maternity leave, etc. "Rocketry is known as a man's field."

    A: "I didn't know rockets were a man's business. That's new to me. [Laughter and applause]

    "Sorry, that was bad phrasing. My bad!"

    "It's okay! We have extraordinary women at SpaceX. We do give them maternity leave. We give baby bonding leave to fathers as leave. What we try to do is just be fair. Women get more time off, of course. In fact, our retention rate for women is higher than our retention rate for men. So we've clearly created an environment in which women are comfortable. 22% of our new interns are female.

35:00

    Q: "You've said that travel to mars will be available within the next decade. Will people with absurd ambitions to work on Mars be able to in that time? (She's an architecture student, so she uses that as her example)"

    A: "Yes." [Laughter] "Something terrible will have to happen in SpaceX for us to not be on our way to Mars and back in 10 years."

36:30

    Q: "What characteristics do you look for when hiring a new engineer?"

    A: "People who can work on a ship, and are very good working large mechanical structures as well as electronics. Will need a lot of builders, and very creative people."

    Q: "What to people need to do to prepare for a future trip to mars?" (In terms of health, skills, etc)

    A: "Mechanical people, people good with electronics, people who know how to make methane from Martian regolith, that would be great."

        Q: "What about soft skills?"

        A: "Soft skills are great, especially during the journey. It'll be like you're in a large aircraft for 3-6 months. We need to make sure that we know how to do that and we aren't putting everyone to sleep, so you'll be interacting. I think it will be fantastic. There will be windows. Lots of windows." [Laughter]

39:00

    Q: Something about suborbital flight, I can't hear him too clearly. When will suborbital business be happening?

    A: "Blue is working on it, along with Virgin. They're just trying to make the system safe and reliable. Blue has a little bit more technology to go. Virgin I think is just trying to do it safely. Because they go right to tourists. They're not taking astronauts/test pilots. They're going right to regular population. Although, sort of "regular", you need $200,000 to spend on the five minutes of suborbital flight. They say that they're going to do it this year, I think that it's a year, maybe two, away."

        Q: Something something "SpaceX" I think he was talking about BFR for suborbital flight.

        A: "Oh, you mean that? Well, I need that new rocket. I think we're going to fly that new rocket in 2021... and we never make our deadlines. [Laughter] It will be the first half of next decade.

    Q: "Are there any links between SpaceX and Elon's other companies?" (Not verbatim, but something along those lines)

    A: "There are some synergies between them. We use Tesla batteries in our technology. We gave Tesla our enterprise information system. I think the first cars on Mars will be Teslas. I also think that we're be boring tunnels on Mars to live in. — Talking to the architecture student from earlier — "One of your mediums of expertise has to be rock." [Laughter]

    Q: Last question, can't make out what she asks unfortunately.

    A: Talks about her technical background, and her love for people. Thinks her people skills have been a greater characteristic than her technical background.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Roy_H on 09/12/2018 08:34 am
Does anybody know of a link where I can watch this conference?
https://spacenews.com/amid-geo-downturn-launch-operators-look-for-new-markets/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 09/12/2018 03:42 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWPaopcU_hE

Transcript (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/9eysmj/september_10th_gwynne_shotwell_qa_session_45min/e5t88c9) from reddit thanks to Jack Lishman (https://www.reddit.com/user/jclishman):

It's worth listening to the video for more context and exact phrasing on some of the answers.  The information from reddit is a good guide to the talk but it's not an exact transcript.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Callezetter on 09/17/2018 05:05 pm
AIAA Space 2018, Commercial Crew — The Newest Ride to LEO
Tuesday, Sept 18th 1400–1530 EDT

MODERATOR: Kathy Lueders, Program Manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA

PANELISTS:
John Mulholland, Vice President and Program Manager, Commercial Crew Programs, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
Benjamin Reed, Director, Commercial Crew Mission Management, SpaceX

Dont seem to be livestreamed, but will be uploaded later.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/18/2018 11:13 am
The Air Force Air, Space & Cyber Conference next month has a spot carved out for "SpaceX Remarks" 17-Sep-2018. 

https://www.afa.org/events/Conference/Agenda1 (https://www.afa.org/events/Conference/Agenda1)

Bezoz is a keynote speaker.

Write-up of Gwynne's talk (it's not just about weapons!):

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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell: ‘We would launch a weapon to defend the U.S.’
by Sandra Erwin — September 17, 2018

During an appearance on Monday at the Air Force Association’s annual symposium, Shotwell was thrown a question she said she had never heard before: “Would SpaceX launch military weapons?”

https://spacenews.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-we-would-launch-a-weapon-to-defend-the-u-s/ (https://spacenews.com/spacex-president-gwynne-shotwell-we-would-launch-a-weapon-to-defend-the-u-s/)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 09/20/2018 01:15 am
I hate headlines that are written just based on a response to a leading question like that.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Markstark on 09/20/2018 01:33 am
I hate headlines that are written just based on a response to a leading question like that.
Same. I would’ve expected that from a different publication. In any case, I’m happy with her response to the question.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: yg1968 on 09/20/2018 01:35 am
AIAA Space 2018, Commercial Crew — The Newest Ride to LEO
Tuesday, Sept 18th 1400–1530 EDT

MODERATOR: Kathy Lueders, Program Manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA

PANELISTS:
John Mulholland, Vice President and Program Manager, Commercial Crew Programs, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
Benjamin Reed, Director, Commercial Crew Mission Management, SpaceX

Dont seem to be livestreamed, but will be uploaded later.

See link below:
https://livestream.com/AIAAvideo/Space2018/videos/180468218
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Elthiryel on 10/02/2018 11:51 pm
As you probably all know, tomorrow Hans Koenigsmann is going to speak during IAC.

However, today there was a meeting with Hans at the University of Bremen booth, where he was speaking about starting a career in the space sector. It was announced on the @IAC2018 Twitter account just 2,5h before the meeting, so there weren't actually many people attending. I know the quality of the sound is not that great, but it was in the Exhibition Hall, where many people where passing by and talking, so it's the best we could get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs2LBeLCo_s
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/03/2018 12:30 am
As you probably all know, tomorrow Hans Koenigsmann is going to speak during IAC.

However, today there was a meeting with Hans at the University of Bremen booth, where he was speaking about starting a career in the space sector. It was announced on the @IAC2018 Twitter account just 2,5h before the meeting, so there weren't actually many people attending. I know the quality of the sound is not that great, but it was in the Exhibition Hall, where many people where passing by and talking, so it's the best we could get.

I thought that was a good talk.  He didn't really say any new information but just getting more context around the information and hearing the tone in which he says it can still help with interpreting the information we've heard from other people.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/03/2018 03:32 pm
Thread for the Hans Koenigsmann presentation at IAC 2018:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46493.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 10/08/2018 12:28 pm
#dearMoon interview with Yusaku Maezawa 2:30 UTC, Oct 9:

https://youtu.be/cGMPfs8j8-s

https://twitter.com/dearmoonproject/status/1047421175729516546

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Press Conference for #dearMoon with @yousuck2020 @fccjapan on October 9th 11:30am - 12:30pm in Tokyo. Live Stream information to follow. http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/press-events/icalrepeat.detail/2018/10/09/5084/30/press-conference-yusaku-maezawa-dearmoon-host-curator-entrepreneur-and-ceo-of-zozo.html?filter_reset=1 …
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/10/2018 08:44 am
https://twitter.com/yousuck2020/status/1049920623135387650

Follow-ups to BFR moon mission discussion thread:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46387.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/23/2018 09:58 am
As you probably all know, tomorrow Hans Koenigsmann is going to speak during IAC.

However, today there was a meeting with Hans at the University of Bremen booth, where he was speaking about starting a career in the space sector. It was announced on the @IAC2018 Twitter account just 2,5h before the meeting, so there weren't actually many people attending. I know the quality of the sound is not that great, but it was in the Exhibition Hall, where many people where passing by and talking, so it's the best we could get.

That video appears to have been removed, but here's another

https://youtu.be/yLtnf_rEgDE
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Elthiryel on 10/23/2018 11:23 am
Yes, it has been removed on an IAC organizers request (I guess they noticed it because it was embedded on our website that we were accredited through). I received a message to remove it because it's unsolicited and unauthorized and because the frame was not intended for publication. I had not realized earlier that these should not be published, as there had been no clear rules posted anywhere.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Lar on 10/23/2018 01:43 pm
Yes, it has been removed on an IAC organizers request (I guess they noticed it because it was embedded on our website that we were accredited through). I received a message to remove it because it's unsolicited and unauthorized and because the frame was not intended for publication. I had not realized earlier that these should not be published, as there had been no clear rules posted anywhere.
Shame on them for not being clearer but once you knew, you did what they wanted. ... Full marks and thank you for doing the right thing.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Aurora on 10/26/2018 09:00 pm
Lars Hoffman, Senior Director of Government Sales spoke at Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, Huntsville, AL this week.  Substitute for Joshua Brost - no explanation for last minute substitution.

http://astronautical.org/vonbraun-live/

Session 2, Launch panel starts about 1:15:00 with Mike Gold as moderator.    Includes presentations by ULA, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

No new news from SpaceX:   5 missions scheduled before the end of 2018, BFR being built, with hop test in Texas to start in 2019.

edit/gongora: alternate URL for that session: https://livestream.com/accounts/563450/events/8423330/videos/182438803

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/01/2018 09:26 am
SpaceX likely to be only a small part of this Elon interview but I’m sure still worth a listen:

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1057882519004041216
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/06/2018 06:29 pm
https://twitter.com/aopa/status/1059846104370606080

https://twitter.com/iridiumboss/status/1059885869086269441
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 11/07/2018 03:04 am
SpaceX is virtually hosting an info session at Texas Tech on Nov 8.

Schedule (Central Time):
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4:45PM Check-In
5:00PM SpaceX Presentation
5:45PM Questions and Answers
https://www.rawlsisa.org/spacex
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/08/2018 12:29 am
Gwynne’s chat with Matt Desch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjpAep8BWMw

Having watched much yet, and doubt anything new, but always good listening to Gwynne.

Edit to add: someone has now posted the highlight reel that was part of Gwynne’s talk

https://youtu.be/QtvJ9Mk0JDk
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 11/09/2018 03:55 am
Gwynne’s chat with Matt Desch:  https://youtube.com/watch?v=KjpAep8BWMw

Dang it, it's been deleted.  Anyone got another source for the video?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/09/2018 03:51 pm
Gwynne’s chat with Matt Desch:  https://youtube.com/watch?v=KjpAep8BWMw

Dang it, it's been deleted.  Anyone got another source for the video?

Not yet I’m afraid. But I have added the new SpaceX highlights reel that Gwynne showed.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: programmerdan on 11/15/2018 02:01 pm
Caught me by surprise, but Paul Wooster gave a short pep-talk at LEAG2018 a few minutes ago. The meeting is live-streamed, and marked as recorded, so I would not be surprised if it was posted in the future.

Didn't catch anything new in his direct remarks, and due to other interruptions I've missed the Q&A afterwards, but it was as part of an interesting panel on launch & moon landing providers at LEAG2018's Thursday morning session. If I figure out where it is posted for future retrieval, I will either update this post or make a new post.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 11/25/2018 03:05 pm
Full interview on HBO on Sunday, Nov. 25 at 6:30 PM ET/PT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfg1n7Lh62Q

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1065352255837102081

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: getitdoneinspace on 12/15/2018 03:15 pm
I really appreciate this thread to read and listen to information directly from the source. I haven't yet seen posted the recent Gwynne Shotwell interview on NPR's Marketplace. So here it is:

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/12/12/business/corner-office-marketplace/why-gwynne-shotwell-believes-well-be-mars-decade
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: getitdoneinspace on 01/02/2019 05:16 pm
A relatively recent talk by Gwynne Shotwell expressing the importance of software at SpaceX and recruiting for those talents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1mp1j0ef8c
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 02/05/2019 02:15 pm
From reddit: SpaceX’s VP of Commercial Sales to speak at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View, CA this week. (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/an4zrc/spacexs_vp_of_commercial_sales_to_speak_at_the/)


Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/06/2019 11:46 pm
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1093299889470095361

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Hofeller: SpaceX is interested in doing dedicated rideshare missions like SSO-A on a regular basis. Would be great to do them one or two times a year. #smallsat2019

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1093304287495704576

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Hofeller says SpaceX will be rolling out a “more formalized” smallsat launch plan in the near future. #smallsat2019
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Rondaz on 03/10/2019 12:32 pm
Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Developing Innovative Space Technology


Posted By: William McCormickon: March 08, 2019 In: News, Wash100

https://blog.executivebiz.com/2019/03/gwynne-shotwell-president-and-coo-of-spacex-inducted-into-2019-wash100-for-developing-innovative-space-technology/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/24/2019 06:11 am
Elon’s talk at Flint school, including the new Starship Mars video, has its own thread:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47737.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/29/2019 09:31 pm
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1133833831394545666

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Dava Newman welcomes Gwynne Shotwell to MIT. Gwynne is giving a talk here in 10-250

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1133841447453691909

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Gwynne gave an inspiring talk about SpaceX. Nice discussion of Starship point-to-point.  I also appreciated her straightforward acknowledgement of past failures among the successes, a refreshing break from corporate-speak.

Gwynne’s response to Q re Starlink impact on astronomy is here (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36552.msg1951635#msg1951635).

https://twitter.com/rocketjoy/status/1133818584482947072

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Great to see @GwynneShotwell at MIT today! She says 18 months until Starship flies and <5 years until @SpaceX puts cargo on Mars.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: grythumn on 05/31/2019 11:37 pm
Not upcoming, but Paul Wooster gave two talks at the 2019 Humans to Mars Summit a few weeks ago. https://h2m.exploremars.org/
 
Human Exploration Extensibility from Moon to Mars. Fairly standard overview of SpaceX vehicles, but with more of a lunar emphasis than I've seen before. Paul starts at 00:23:00.

Living off the Land: In-Situ Resource Utilization. Paul starts at 7:35:45 in the long stream. Not sure if anything there is new information, but I learned some things.

https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2019/videos/191286998
(Just the ISRU session) https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2019/videos/191337604

-Bob
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: lonestriker on 06/01/2019 12:19 am
Not upcoming, but Paul Wooster gave two talks at the 2019 Humans to Mars Summit a few weeks ago. https://h2m.exploremars.org/
 
Human Exploration Extensibility from Moon to Mars. Fairly standard overview of SpaceX vehicles, but with more of a lunar emphasis than I've seen before. Paul starts at 00:23:00.

Living off the Land: In-Situ Resource Utilization. Paul starts at 7:35:45 in the long stream. Not sure if anything there is new information, but I learned some things.

https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2019/videos/191286998
(Just the ISRU session) https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2019/videos/191337604

-Bob

Stark contrast between NASA SLS architecture and plans for moon and Mars vs. SpaceX to say the least.  Seeing so many SLS rockets on that master slide made me cringe; if SLS flies that many times, that's going to a large portion of the entire NASA budget.  It amazes me that those two presenters could keep a straight face and discuss two approaches that are diametrically opposed.  One obviates the other to such an extent that you're comparing different generations of technology, separated by 50 years.  Apollo (not even Shuttle because SLS is a throw-away step backward) vs. New Space.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/01/2019 01:02 am
Not upcoming, but Paul Wooster gave two talks at the 2019 Humans to Mars Summit a few weeks ago. https://h2m.exploremars.org/

Thanks for posting. Here are corresponding YouTube links for Paul's talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmARauyhBQ#t=1379

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmARauyhBQ#t=27346
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: grythumn on 06/01/2019 01:49 am
Stark contrast between NASA SLS architecture and plans for moon and Mars vs. SpaceX to say the least.  Seeing so many SLS rockets on that master slide made me cringe; if SLS flies that many times, that's going to a large portion of the entire NASA budget.  It amazes me that those two presenters could keep a straight face and discuss two approaches that are diametrically opposed.  One obviates the other to such an extent that you're comparing different generations of technology, separated by 50 years.  Apollo (not even Shuttle because SLS is a throw-away step backward) vs. New Space.

Yeah, they were definitely talking past each other, had their scripts and had to stick to it.

I would've liked to have seen some SpaceX ISRU demos/tests/updates... they're making visible progress on Starship, but autonomous ISRU on the scale required has to be a long-lead project as well.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 06/01/2019 02:59 am
Humans are the best autonomous systems we have.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: SpacedX on 06/01/2019 01:13 pm
Humans are the best autonomous systems we have.

OK, maybe the best. But humans will be way too expensive as autonomous systems get better.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 06/01/2019 03:30 pm
Humans are the best autonomous systems we have.

OK, maybe the best. But humans will be way too expensive as autonomous systems get better.
Unless you make human support systems cheaper. Moore’s Law has nearly flatlined.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Roy_H on 06/01/2019 10:14 pm
Holy crap! That Notional SLS flight scenario to Mars blows me away. 16 SLS launches up to 2033 at what $1B per launch. Two years floating in space for 2 - 3 weeks on the surface of Mars! Astronauts that have spent 1 year on the ISS have had sever physical problems re-adapting to earth gravity. Those astronauts landing on Mars won't be able to walk. This is a suicide mission or at least destroy your body for many years and will be astoundingly expensive.

Edit: copied my post to here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47993.msg1952865#msg1952865
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 06/01/2019 11:53 pm
Just to nip this in the bud, this thread is focused on awareness of upcoming SpaceX talks and links to records of them afterwards.  Please take SLS, HSF and Mars discussions to the appropriate section of NSF, perhaps here:  https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=21.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 06/01/2019 11:55 pm
Not upcoming, but Paul Wooster gave two talks at the 2019 Humans to Mars Summit a few weeks ago. https://h2m.exploremars.org/

Thanks for posting. Here are corresponding YouTube links for Paul's talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmARauyhBQ?t=1379

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmARauyhBQ?t=27346

Those links don't work.  For the second "?", you need to use "#" instead, like this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmARauyhBQ#t=1379

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmARauyhBQ#t=27346

Also, FYI, "#t=12m34s" syntax also works.

FutureSpaceTourist, how did you suppress the auto-embed of the Youtube videos?  The only way I know how to do that is to delete the leading "www.", but you didn't do that.  Hidden &nbsp?  (or maybe the semi-broken ?v / ?t link suppressed the embed :) )
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/02/2019 05:00 am
Strange, the links work fine for me (on iOS, haven’t tried Windows or anything else). I used the iOS YouTube app to generate them for me and didn’t look at the format! I’ve changed to use # now and as a result they now embed ...

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 07/17/2019 02:44 pm
The slides for Paul Wooster’s talk are now available:
https://h2m.exploremars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0515_0850_Pwooster.pdf
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 08/18/2019 05:07 am
The Space Show podcast with Dr. Garrett Erin Reisman, former SpaceX Director of Space Operations, currently Senior Advisor at SpaceX: https://thespaceshow.com/show/16-aug-2019/broadcast-3357-dr.-garrett-erin-reisman

Some interesting tidbits:
1. Dragon 2 ECLSS is developed mostly/entirely in house
2. Starship Mars ECLSS is not on the critical path yet, unlike NASA, SpaceX always focus on the things on the critical path
3. Dragon 2 IVA suit glove has good dexterity when pressurized, he feels it's a big improvement over the EVA suit glove he has worn.
4. The current exercise regimen used on ISS has entirely stopped bone loss due to zero-g, so bone loss is no longer an issue in terms of flight to Mars, thanks to ISS.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: guckyfan on 08/18/2019 10:14 am
4. The current exercise regimen used on ISS has entirely stopped bone loss due to zero-g, so bone loss is no longer an issue in terms of flight to Mars, thanks to ISS.

That sounds like a major surprise to me. My impression has always been they can avoid muscle loss, but not loss of bone density and structure. Does osteoporosis medication play a major role there?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mikelepage on 08/18/2019 10:57 am
4. The current exercise regimen used on ISS has entirely stopped bone loss due to zero-g, so bone loss is no longer an issue in terms of flight to Mars, thanks to ISS.

That sounds like a major surprise to me. My impression has always been they can avoid muscle loss, but not loss of bone density and structure. Does osteoporosis medication play a major role there?

Su27k's assertion is a common misinterpretation of the data that has caused much confusion.  Repeating what I learnt in a NASA talk at IAC 2017:

What the ISS exercise regime has stopped is loss of bone *mass*, but you still get extensive bone remodelling resulting in an osteoporosis-like phenotype.  In osteoporosis and exercising astronauts, trabecular bone tissue (the spongy stuff in the middle of the bone) is lost and remodelled into cortical bone (the hard outer layer of bone), meaning that the mass stays the same but the voids inside bones become much bigger - resulting in the bone becoming more brittle and susceptible to breaks.  Doing the exercise means you avoid losing bone mass as well as bone density, but it doesn't mean the basic problem is solved.

 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meberbs on 08/18/2019 04:05 pm
Su27k's assertion is a common misinterpretation of the data that has caused much confusion.  Repeating what I learnt in a NASA talk at IAC 2017:
Su27k didn't make any assertions. He summarized statements from Dr. Garrett Erin Reisman, a former astronaut currently working for SpaceX.

He stated that the IRED device he used resulted in 1% bone density loss per month (~3% for him after 3 months), which came back for him when he returned to Earth, but not entirely in the same places (which seems to be what you are describing in your post.)

He said that they now have the ARED device on the ISS, and that now there is "no loss at all" with the new device which prioritizes high load, low rep exercise which is more effective than low load, high rep.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 08/19/2019 04:06 pm
Hans Koenigsmann has just given a talk at the 2019 AIAA Propulsion and Enerygy Forum.

Various quotes appearing on twitter on Dragon test anomaly (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=48357.msg1981140#msg1981140), Starship (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47730.msg1981148#msg1981148), reusability and innovation.

Some tweets here that don’t have obvious homes elsewhere:

https://twitter.com/stephenclark1/status/1163476514530385920

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SpaceX’s Koenigsmann: We have Falcon Heavy as the product for cargo services in support of NASA’s Artemis program. Falcon 9 will soon be able to provide crew transportation, too. Then we’ll phase in new vehicles like Starship.

https://twitter.com/stephenclark1/status/1163476091761307649

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SpaceX’s Koenigsmann on Starship: “We clearly want to innovate, and it's hard to innovate in this industry. I'm not sure what it is, but there's a certain amount of resistance for continuous innovation.” Can use F9 and Dragon to test Starship technology, and vice versa.

https://twitter.com/emrekelly/status/1163475518097899520

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#SpaceX's Koenigsmann on Starship: "It's hard to innovate in this industry. There's a certain amount of resistance to continuous innovation." Says in order to do it properly, you have to have a solid fleet flying while developing new hardware on the side.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 08/19/2019 04:21 pm
The talk is available at https://livestream.com/AIAAvideo/PropEnergy2019/videos/195239866
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: mulp on 08/20/2019 08:11 am
Hansen really justifies reuse and high tempo, with crew flying once a month, in order to reach high reliability. How to get to that tempo he punted being heads down on getting crew dragon past the first couple human flights. But that's in stark contrast to the others, at 1-2 per year. All agreed ISS is needed to incubate commercial/tourist human flight.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 08/20/2019 01:58 pm
Hansen really justifies reuse and high tempo, with crew flying once a month, in order to reach high reliability. How to get to that tempo he punted being heads down on getting crew dragon past the first couple human flights. But that's in stark contrast to the others, at 1-2 per year. All agreed ISS is needed to incubate commercial/tourist human flight.

Hans didn't say he thought SpaceX would get to that tempo with Crew Dragon, he was just saying launching at that frequency would be good for operations to stay sharp without being overloaded.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Callezetter on 09/19/2019 05:23 pm
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that this year’s Saturday evening banquet (October 19) at the 22nd Annual International Mars Society Convention will include an address by senior SpaceX representative Paul Wooster, providing an update about the company and its ongoing efforts to revolutionize space flight technology with the goal of enabling humanity to settle the solar system.

http://www.marssociety.org/conventions/2019/?mc_cid=2e4fd888f6&mc_eid=30ebf5b547
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 09/26/2019 03:57 am
IAC talk D2.1 Falcon Launch Vehicle Lessons Learned and Reusability (http://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2019/technical-programme/keynotes/#squelch-taas-accordion-shortcode-content-9)
Oct. 21 at 3pm (Eastern time)

Gary Henry will discuss the status and progress of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy vehicles, with emphasis on some of the key lessons learned from flying boosters multiple times.

Gary Henry joined SpaceX in February 2019 as Senior Director of National Security Space Solutions after a 27 year USAF career (in which he served as director of the EELV program) and some time at Boeing's Phantom Works.

h/t to u/Straumli_Blight (https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/cyre83/rspacex_discusses_september_2019_60/f1eje7o/)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Raj2014 on 09/26/2019 10:35 pm
Does anyone know what time Elon Musk will start his presentation on Saturday?   
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: 50_Caliber on 09/27/2019 01:29 am
Does anyone know what time Elon Musk will start his presentation on Saturday?   
It was just posted in another thread it will be at 7PM central.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Dragon029 on 09/28/2019 12:39 pm
6 or 7PM CST, but if you need an exact time, 7PM would likely be the better bet:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1177621843219365888
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Draggendrop on 09/28/2019 01:45 pm
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1177938839949627392 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1177938839949627392)
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Post by: Draggendrop on 09/28/2019 09:28 pm
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1178058268331012096 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1178058268331012096)
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Post by: Joey S-IVB on 09/29/2019 12:38 am
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1178058268331012096 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1178058268331012096)
Don't know if I can trust "Ed the Sock," he seems to be a sock puppet. :-) ;D :P
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Post by: Bananas_on_Mars on 10/01/2019 04:55 pm
Not an upcoming event, but recently released:

1 hour long interview with Benji Reed about Crew Dragon, by NASA Podcast "Houston we have a Podcast" (https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/the-spacex-dragon)

Released on september 27th, but the interview took place on August 20th.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/05/2019 07:10 am
https://twitter.com/xprize/status/1180155677668335616

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Our first guest speaker is Gwynne Shotwell, COO of @SpaceX #visioneering
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Post by: Rondaz on 10/13/2019 06:23 pm
SpaceX’s Paul Wooster to Speak at Mars Society Convention Banquet..

Posted byu/EdwardHeisler 10/13/2019

https://www.marssociety.org/news/2019/09/19/spacexs-paul-wooster-to-speak-at-mars-society-convention-banquet/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Robotbeat on 10/15/2019 03:03 am
The slides for Paul Wooster’s talk are now available:
https://h2m.exploremars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0515_0850_Pwooster.pdf
Nice high resolution images!
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/16/2019 05:15 pm
https://twitter.com/bluemoondance74/status/1184504734448795648

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According to @SpaceNews_Inc, Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX will be on a panel today (Wed 10/16) at the annual meeting of The Association of the United States Army in Washington DC. ausameetings.org/2019annualmeet…
(*Uncertain at this time if there will be coverage. Will update as necessary.)

https://ausameetings.org/2019annualmeeting/events/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/16/2019 09:29 pm
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SpaceX sees U.S. Army as possible customer for Starlink and Starship
by Sandra Erwin — October 16, 2019

https://spacenews.com/spacex-sees-u-s-army-as-possible-customer-for-starlink-and-starship/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: km22 on 10/20/2019 03:42 am
From Paul Wooster's Mars Society presentation:
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Post by: docmordrid on 10/20/2019 04:50 am
From Paul Wooster's Mars Society presentation:

Rotated & cleaned up

Good grief, we have an elevator!
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Post by: philw1776 on 10/20/2019 02:31 pm
Video of Wooster's Mars Society presentation.  Q&A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bysu8XN5OfY

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Post by: curtquarquesso on 10/20/2019 08:09 pm
Video of Wooster's Mars Society presentation.  Q&A.

Thanks for snipping this clip for us. QA session had some pretty good questions in it. Totally expected Bob to lift that little Starship model off of Paul while he wasn't looking...  ;)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/20/2019 08:47 pm
A few points from Paul’s talk that struck me (in order they occurred; by no means a comprehensive list):

Building right now the capability to manufacture large quantities of the heat shield tiles material

Raptor tests have been up to 105% power

Mk 1 prototype is for testing landing sequence
Mentioned static fires for Mk 1

Acceleration for entry from LEO is 2 to 3g. Entry on return from Mars is limited to 5g, even with the fast transit times SpaceX are aiming for.

Cargo missions to Mars in 2022 ‘still on the table’.

Possibility of some ablative component to the heat shield for high velocity (e.g. Mars return) re-entries. Given frequency of such missions not such a need for super high reuse.
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Post by: gongora on 10/20/2019 09:05 pm
One other thing is he mentioned the thickness/mass of the material being used as a difference between the Boca and Florida builds, with the Florida build being lighter (but still heavier than the future builds).
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Post by: LiamS on 10/20/2019 09:53 pm
https://twitter.com/bluemoondance74/status/1184504734448795648

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According to @SpaceNews_Inc, Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX will be on a panel today (Wed 10/16) at the annual meeting of The Association of the United States Army in Washington DC. ausameetings.org/2019annualmeet…
(*Uncertain at this time if there will be coverage. Will update as necessary.)

https://ausameetings.org/2019annualmeeting/events/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past

I found a recording of the panel https://www.dvidshub.net/video/715388/ausa-day-3-cmf-7-ausa-ilw-contemporary-military-forum-delivering-force-modernization (https://www.dvidshub.net/video/715388/ausa-day-3-cmf-7-ausa-ilw-contemporary-military-forum-delivering-force-modernization)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: M.E.T. on 10/21/2019 03:36 am
A few points from Paul’s talk that struck me (in order they occurred; by no means a comprehensive list):

Building right now the capability to manufacture large quantities of the heat shield tiles material

Raptor tests have been up to 105% power

Mk 1 prototype is for testing landing sequence
Mentioned static fires for Mk 1

Acceleration for entry from LEO is 2 to 3g. Entry on return from Mars is limited to 5g, even with the fast transit times SpaceX are aiming for.

Cargo missions to Mars in 2022 ‘still on the table’.

Possibility of some ablative component to the heat shield for high velocity (e.g. Mars return) re-entries. Given frequency of such missions not such a need for super high reuse.

Watched the video. Such great questions asked. Clearly a very informed audience.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/22/2019 02:39 pm
https://twitter.com/superclusterhq/status/1186642773799247873

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#SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is in the house at #IAC2019 for an "Industry Story Telling" panel.

We'll livestream on Instagram:

Scheduled for 10:20 AM EDT

instagram.com/superclusterhq/
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Post by: Semmel on 10/22/2019 03:16 pm
Nice.. their slogan "Space for everyone" would need a footnote: as long as you create an Instagram account. I guess I wait for a re-host or write-up.
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Post by: gongora on 10/22/2019 03:26 pm
https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/1186657117668691969
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Post by: sanman on 10/22/2019 06:57 pm
Gwynne Shotwell talk on youtube:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfleQ2CTeBc


Starship @ 10:33
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: theinternetftw on 10/22/2019 10:02 pm
Gwynne Shotwell talk on youtube

Highlighting one bit from this: "We definitely want to land [Starship] on the moon by 2022. We want to basically stage cargo there, to make sure that there's resources for the folks that ultimately land on the moon by 2024."
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/25/2019 04:05 pm
https://twitter.com/bluemoondance74/status/1187752868939468801

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.@SpaceX President/ COO Gwynne Shotwell speaking to Baron Funds CEO/ CIO Ron Baron at the annual Baron Investment Conference at the @MetOpera
Conf details: baronfunds.com/baron-conferen…
(Be sure to see full thread below)

Michael Sheetz’s twitter thread quotes (https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1187741337455648768) some key points from Gwynne’s remarks.

She throws some shade at Blue Origin for not yet making orbit.
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/25/2019 10:25 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1187854399449763841

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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell was more candid in her comments today about competitors than I've ever heard before, laying out at investor conference what @elonmusk's company thinks of Blue Origin, OneWeb, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Write-up of Gwynne’s remarks:

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SpaceX president knocks Bezos’ Blue Origin: ‘They have a billion dollars of free money every year’
PUBLISHED 9 MIN AGO
Michael Sheetz @THESHEETZTWEETZ

KEY POINTS
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell spoke candidly at an investor conference in New York City on Friday.
“They have a billion dollars of free money every year from him,” Shotwell said of SpaceX’s competitor Blue Origin and its founder Jeff Bezos.
Shotwell also claimed SpaceX’s internet network Starlink is far ahead of Softbank-banked OneWeb, saying “we have far more capacity per satellite than our competitors.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/25/spacex-shotwell-calls-out-blue-origin-boeing-lockheed-martin-oneweb.html

These are clearly not off-the-cuff remarks, I do wonder why now?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meberbs on 10/25/2019 10:47 pm
These are clearly not off-the-cuff remarks, I do wonder why now?
I see 2 reasons:
1. Up until now Shotwell has made many conservative statements about Starlink being experimental and having to see how it works out. With 1 full load deployed on orbit for months, and them being about to start launching production satellites monthly or more starting within weeks, they are now past the crucial decision point. They have finished the initial studies and can now make definitive statements. (Not that they aren't still developing, and making improvements as they go.)
2. The audience appears to have been investors. To proceed with the pace of launches they have planned, it wouldn't be strange if they will look for some investment to keep things moving smoothly.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RocketGoBoom on 10/26/2019 02:25 am

I see 2 reasons:

1. Up until now Shotwell has made many conservative statements about Starlink being experimental and having to see how it works out. With 1 full load deployed on orbit for months, and them being about to start launching production satellites monthly or more starting within weeks, they are now past the crucial decision point. They have finished the initial studies and can now make definitive statements. (Not that they aren't still developing, and making improvements as they go.)

2. The audience appears to have been investors. To proceed with the pace of launches they have planned, it wouldn't be strange if they will look for some investment to keep things moving smoothly.

I think also that Musk and Shotwell recognize that this is a competition and they have the opportunity to strangle OneWeb early in the process. Shotwell made some comments about OneWeb misleading investors and not being able to fulfill their promises.

OneWeb needs to raise another $5 billion or so in order to fund their 20+ launches in the next 2-3 years. Shotwell seems to be trying to undermine the ability of OneWeb to raise that money by making some negative comments.

Clearly SpaceX/Starlink has a cost advantage on launch costs, launch schedule, etc. This seems like a Starlink vs OneWeb race and Amazon Kuiper is MIA with a paper plan that is clearly 3-5 years behind Starlink and OneWeb.

If Starlink and OneWeb can get most of their satellites into orbit before Amazon Kuiper is ready, does that consume the available bandwidth? Isn't it a "use it or lose it" type of bandwidth competition? Whoever gets there first gets the bandwidth.
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Post by: M.E.T. on 10/26/2019 06:02 am
As I’ve said many times now, it is in SpaceX’s interest to crush any and all competition, whether it be in the smallsat market, heavy launch market or orbital constellation market.

Their goals are revolutionary (Starship, Mars etc), and require a LOT of money. Every launch that BO gets, or every customer than Oneweb acquires, takes dollars away from SpaceX achieving those goals faster.

If they can bankrupt Rocketlab to get 1% more profit per year, they will do it. And that’s not a bad thing. Because they use those profits to move technology and space access forward faster than anyone else. And we all get to go along for the ride.

These comments by Shotwell reiterates this point clearly.

If the others want to compete, maybe they should be converting water towers into ground breaking experimental rockets too.
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Post by: aero on 10/26/2019 03:51 pm
In other words, take a page from Bill Gate's Book of Microsoft. He undercut all competition for operating systems to the point of "Free." And that started well before Windows was introduced. Say what you will but you can't deny that Windows is the winner of paid operating systems.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: meberbs on 10/26/2019 05:28 pm
As I’ve said many times now, it is in SpaceX’s interest to crush any and all competition, whether it be in the smallsat market, heavy launch market or orbital constellation market.
You have that backwards. Musk has made it clear on multiple occasions if someone stepped forward to compete with them. His goals are not about making a profit, but colonizing Mars and expanding humans into the solar system. That cannot sustainably be driven and supported by a single company.

Crushing the competition is just a side effect of the fact that no one else is moving forward fast enough compared to them. One Web's constellation is too small and expensive for its size. SpaceX is dropping costs for big rockets so low that they can beat out much smaller rockets on a per launch price. Others will have to innovate faster to keep up or they need to get out of the way so that others who can keep up can fill the gap.

Shotwell has stated (https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlink-broadband-services-in-2020/) about Stalink: “If we do well and make money, there will be competitors.” She knows they won't crush all competition, but the other competitors are going to have to do better than what is currently being shown to truly compete.
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Post by: RocketGoBoom on 10/26/2019 11:10 pm

You have that backwards. Musk has made it clear on multiple occasions if someone stepped forward to compete with them. His goals are not about making a profit, but colonizing Mars and expanding humans into the solar system. That cannot sustainably be driven and supported by a single company.

I like Elon Musk and his companies as much as the next superfan. But I think we can be honest and recognize that Elon does want to make lots and lots of profits. Don't always buy into the PR on altruism. Profits and access to massive amounts of fresh capital are the only way to fulfill his goals. He has Tesla and SpaceX give him very large stock option packages every few years (approx 5% of the company each time). Elon definitely is in this for the money also.

In fact, the entire reason they started Starlink is because in 2012 Elon and his board of directors recognized that their customers (commercial Satellite operators) have much higher profit margins and way more revenue than the rocket launch companies.

Elon has no problem wiping out multiple other satellite operators, even though they are also his customers. Frankly, if Starlink becomes fully operational, it could make even the satellites in geosynchronous orbit far less profitable by stealing some of their customers. Broadband LEO constellations can do many of the same things (only faster) that those slow high orbit sats are doing right now.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: M.E.T. on 10/27/2019 12:29 am

You have that backwards. Musk has made it clear on multiple occasions if someone stepped forward to compete with them. His goals are not about making a profit, but colonizing Mars and expanding humans into the solar system. That cannot sustainably be driven and supported by a single company.

I like Elon Musk and his companies as much as the next superfan. But I think we can be honest and recognize that Elon does want to make lots and lots of profits. Don't always buy into the PR on altruism. Profits and access to massive amounts of fresh capital are the only way to fulfill his goals. He has Tesla and SpaceX give him very large stock option packages every few years (approx 5% of the company each time). Elon definitely is in this for the money also.

In fact, the entire reason they started Starlink is because in 2012 Elon and his board of directors recognized that their customers (commercial Satellite operators) have much higher profit margins and way more revenue than the rocket launch companies.

Elon has no problem wiping out multiple other satellite operators, even though they are also his customers. Frankly, if Starlink becomes fully operational, it could make even the satellites in geosynchronous orbit far less profitable by stealing some of their customers. Broadband LEO constellations can do many of the same things (only faster) that those slow high orbit sats are doing right now.

Elon wants to make money yes, but for a singular goal - to fund the colonization of Mars. He has stated openly that the reason he is accumulating assets is to fund his Mars ambitions.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: M.E.T. on 10/27/2019 12:34 am
As I’ve said many times now, it is in SpaceX’s interest to crush any and all competition, whether it be in the smallsat market, heavy launch market or orbital constellation market.
You have that backwards. Musk has made it clear on multiple occasions if someone stepped forward to compete with them. His goals are not about making a profit, but colonizing Mars and expanding humans into the solar system. That cannot sustainably be driven and supported by a single company.

Crushing the competition is just a side effect of the fact that no one else is moving forward fast enough compared to them. One Web's constellation is too small and expensive for its size. SpaceX is dropping costs for big rockets so low that they can beat out much smaller rockets on a per launch price. Others will have to innovate faster to keep up or they need to get out of the way so that others who can keep up can fill the gap.

Shotwell has stated (https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlink-broadband-services-in-2020/) about Stalink: “If we do well and make money, there will be competitors.” She knows they won't crush all competition, but the other competitors are going to have to do better than what is currently being shown to truly compete.

SpaceX wants to colonize Mars. That will cost billions - probably trillions, in fact. To do that, launch revenues aren’t enough. That’s why they started Starlink. But to get to the point where Starlink can generate the tens of billions per year that it promises, it needs a lot of upfront investment. So SpaceX needs to get through the next 2-3 years by whatever means necessary. And if that means killing the competition to do so, that’s exactly what they will do.

The only thing they need to make a city on Mars a reality is lots and lots of money. If they have enough money to do it all themselves, they will do so. Where they don’t, they will look for partners.

Money is the only obstacle, hence their quest for as much of it as possible.
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Post by: RocketGoBoom on 10/27/2019 01:22 am

SpaceX wants to colonize Mars. That will cost billions - probably trillions, in fact. To do that, launch revenues aren’t enough. That’s why they started Starlink. But to get to the point where Starlink can generate the tens of billions per year that it promises, it needs a lot of upfront investment. So SpaceX needs to get through the next 2-3 years by whatever means necessary. And if that means killing the competition to do so, that’s exactly what they will do.

They have to do more than just kill their satellite competitors. I checked the annual revenue of SES and Eutelsat each had revenue of $2 billion and $1.5 billion. The other top sat operators were less than that.

In order for Starlink to reach $10 billion in annual revenue, then Starlink needs to be a viable replacement for land based telecom companies. Will customers in the USA dump their current cable broadband internet provider and put a Starlink dish on their roof? If Starlink can become a competitor for Xfinity, Spectrum, AT&T, etc then they can certainly bring in enough revenue to meet their goals of $10 billion plus in revenue. But it clearly will require more than just killing the other satellite companies in orbit.

I saw one article that indicated Starlink's initial goal is to capture 3% of global internet connectivity revenue, which would be $30 billion per year out of a $1 trillion market.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/spacex-valuation-33point3-billion-after-starlink-satellites-fundraising.html

While SpaceX’s annual launch revenue is estimated at about $2 billion, Musk sees that topping out at $3 billion in the coming years. But Starlink he said could bring in revenue of “more like $30 billion a year.”

“Total internet connectivity revenue in the world is about $1 trillion and we think maybe we can access about 3%” with Starlink, Musk said.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: aero on 10/27/2019 02:27 am
It's interesting that they are estimating based on existing Internet customers and not mentioning service to new markets such as the currently underserved and not served peoples of the world.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RocketGoBoom on 10/27/2019 11:23 am
It's interesting that they are estimating based on existing Internet customers and not mentioning service to new markets such as the currently underserved and not served peoples of the world.

Cheap used cell phones are available to most of the 3rd world and developing. 3G data plans in India costs 1/10 of what we pay in the USA. So internet is available to most of the people of the world. The 3 billion people that don't have internet, it is mostly because they live on $5 per day and there is no price where it is affordable. SpaceX won't be fixing that.

Here are the potential markets where Starlink will have a huge advantage quickly and these markets are likely where it will strike first.

Cruise ships. There are 300+ cruise ships of significant size and there were 28 million plus passengers in 2018. They get pathetic slow satellite internet service plans right now and I recall paying $14 per day for that slow service. Cruise companies are definitely going to switch to buying internet service from Starlink in bulk as soon as it is available.

Airlines. The company Gogo had $900 million (Mostly USA only) in revenue in 2018 providing 3G internet service (very slow) to airlines. Gogo is a publicly traded stock (GOGO). I am considering shorting it. The market opportunity here for Starlink is way bigger than just the $900 million that Gogo makes in the USA/Canada market. Europe and Asia are also another few billion dollars $$$ in opportunity for Starlink.

Also basically every boat of any size is a potential customer of Starlink.

Container ships = 50,000
Mega Yachts = 10,000+
Regular Yachts = 250,000+ (wealthy doctors, investment bankers, small business owners, etc)
Commercial fishing ships = hundreds of thousands of large commercial fishing boats out there

300+ cruise ships carried over 28 million people in 2018.

There is several billion dollars in market opportunity right with that list. Starlink broadband will likely dominate these markets within a few years of being available. The current internet data speeds provided by satellites are just way too slow to compete.

Just my opinion.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/27/2019 02:17 pm
This isn't the Starlink discussion thread.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/05/2019 05:51 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1191774894796759040

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is the "surprise guest" for #AFSpacePitchDay in San Francisco, speaking at 11:30 a.m. PT (19:30 UTC). More to come!

Photo via @amanda_m_macias
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/05/2019 06:52 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1191803279392563201

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaking at #AFSpacePitchDay in San Fancisco

Livestream via @maxhaot:

Edit to add: oh well

https://twitter.com/timfernholz/status/1191811057477570560

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And that's a wrap. Pretty anodyne stuff but some good customer relationship management for SpaceX
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/06/2019 05:45 am
Couple of Starship snippets:

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A single Starship will expend about $900,00 worth of fuel and oxygen for pressurization to send “at least 100 tons, probably 150 tons to orbit,” Musk said. SpaceX’s cost to operate Starship will be around $2 million per flight, which is “much less than even a tiny rocket,” he added.

https://spacenews.com/elon-musk-space-pitch-day/
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Post by: jpo234 on 11/06/2019 09:42 am
Couple of Starship snippets:

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A single Starship will expend about $900,00 worth of fuel and oxygen for pressurization to send “at least 100 tons, probably 150 tons to orbit,” Musk said. SpaceX’s cost to operate Starship will be around $2 million per flight, which is “much less than even a tiny rocket,” he added.

https://spacenews.com/elon-musk-space-pitch-day/

What's that number? $900 (most probably not), $90K or $900K (missing a zero)?

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 11/06/2019 02:29 pm
Couple of Starship snippets:

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A single Starship will expend about $900,00 worth of fuel and oxygen for pressurization to send “at least 100 tons, probably 150 tons to orbit,” Musk said. SpaceX’s cost to operate Starship will be around $2 million per flight, which is “much less than even a tiny rocket,” he added.

https://spacenews.com/elon-musk-space-pitch-day/

What's that number? $900 (most probably not), $90K or $900K (missing a zero)?


Having just listened to that segment, the quote was $900K for propellant, $2M marginal cost for launch. At the end he pitched the value of developing reusability, even for small launchers.

Also interesting was the question of how wrong are you?  The goal is to be less wrong tomorrow.  That is contrasted by the typical question folks ask about whether they or their idea is right.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/07/2019 10:33 am
Video of Elon’s chat. Not sure how much us missing from start and sound quality is poor at times but does include Elon’s remarks on Starship (which are about 15 mins in).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bJEJawMAQ
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Rondaz on 11/09/2019 11:53 pm
"The situation in Germany is a challenge for rocket launches"

SpaceX chief engineer Hans Koenigsmann talks about the mistakes of the European space program and explains what he is arguing about with Elon Musk.

Nele Husmann 07.11.2019

Requires Translation..

https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/spacex-chefingenieur-im-interview-die-lage-deutschlands-ist-eine-herausforderung-fuer-raketenstarts/25190580.html?ticket=ST-73671586-yEYjCpgs31f6aECALkfT-ap6
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 11/10/2019 12:21 am
Google English:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/spacex-chefingenieur-im-interview-die-lage-deutschlands-ist-eine-herausforderung-fuer-raketenstarts/25190580.html&prev=search
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: TorenAltair on 11/10/2019 12:26 am
Google English:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/spacex-chefingenieur-im-interview-die-lage-deutschlands-ist-eine-herausforderung-fuer-raketenstarts/25190580.html&prev=search

Had a quick look, translation seems to be correct. Although he says nothing „spectacular“.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: scdavis on 11/10/2019 04:49 pm
Google English:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=de&amp;u=https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/spacex-chefingenieur-im-interview-die-lage-deutschlands-ist-eine-herausforderung-fuer-raketenstarts/25190580.html&amp;prev=search

Tweaking Ariane’s nose:

“I've changed my strategy and, in principle, given up trying to convince Ariane executives of reusability. When I say that Ariane should continue like before, I seem to make more people think. Although the project to continue to build a disposable rocket is about the same as developing a good analog phone now.”
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/10/2019 07:56 pm
Video of Elon’s chat. Not sure how much us missing from start and sound quality is poor at times but does include Elon’s remarks on Starship (which are about 15 mins in).

youtube.com/watch?v=77bJEJawMAQ

Heres the complete chat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS3nIyetS4I
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 12/11/2019 02:34 pm
Musk to keynote Satellite 2020 on Monday, March 9 at 4:00 p.m. EST at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C.

https://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2019/12/10/spacexs-elon-musk-to-keynote-satellite-2020/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: matthewkantar on 12/11/2019 04:07 pm
Video of Elon’s chat. Not sure how much us missing from start and sound quality is poor at times but does include Elon’s remarks on Starship (which are about 15 mins in).

youtube.com/watch?v=77bJEJawMAQ

Heres the complete chat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS3nIyetS4I

Don't know who this guy is, but he is the best Elon interviewer ever. Asks good questions, waits patiently until Elon formulates his answer and spits it out, listens and understands answers, and bases next question on that understanding. 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 01/07/2020 02:39 am
Quote
Elon Musk to Keynote Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium
Press Release From: Air Force Association
Posted: Monday, January 6, 2020

Elon Musk,  SpaceX’s Chief Engineer, will participate in a fireside chat with Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, during the Air Force Association’s 2020 Air Warfare Symposium, Feb. 26 – 28.

“We are honored to welcome Mr. Musk, a brilliant entrepreneur and engineer to speak at one of the premier Air Force leadership events for defense and aerospace professionals around the world,” said AFA President Lt. Gen. Bruce “Orville” Wright, USAF (Ret).

This year’s symposium theme, “Multi-Domain Operations: Vision to Reality” will be held at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando. Distinguished speakers will present more than 12 panels and sessions, including major addresses by Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein, and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright.

Learn more and register for the 2020 Air Warfare Symposium.

// end //

http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=55072
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 01/07/2020 12:56 pm
Don't know who this guy is, but he is the best Elon interviewer ever. Asks good questions, waits patiently until Elon formulates his answer and spits it out, listens and understands answers, and bases next question on that understanding.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif. (https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108394/lieutenant-general-john-f-thompson/)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DanseMacabre on 01/16/2020 08:42 am
Elon will have a Keynote talk at SatShow (SATELLITE) 2020. March 9 at 4 PM local, 8PM UTC (DST just kicked in the day before!).

https://www.satshow.com/elon-musk/ (https://www.satshow.com/elon-musk/)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: TorenAltair on 01/17/2020 11:29 pm
Nearly 3 hour interview with Hans Koenigsmann in German
https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2020/01/17/rz083-spacex/
Not sure if anybody would be interested in a translation or if Raumzeit would approve this..
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Kang54 on 01/18/2020 08:17 pm
Nearly 3 hour interview with Hans Koenigsmann in German
https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2020/01/17/rz083-spacex/
Not sure if anybody would be interested in a translation or if Raumzeit would approve this..
Reddit user Ti-Z has translated the main points of the interview here (https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/epzayc/german_raumzeit_podcast_with_hans_koenigsmann/feobsfz/). There are some interesting notes, but most of it is known.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Mandella on 01/19/2020 02:03 am
Nearly 3 hour interview with Hans Koenigsmann in German
https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2020/01/17/rz083-spacex/
Not sure if anybody would be interested in a translation or if Raumzeit would approve this..
Reddit user Ti-Z has translated the main points of the interview here (https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/epzayc/german_raumzeit_podcast_with_hans_koenigsmann/feobsfz/). There are some interesting notes, but most of it is known.

While most might be known, I found it really informative to have it all talked about in one sitting. Plus some of the interesting notes were *very* interesting.

Would it be bad form to copy that summery here for prosperity's posterity's sake?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AC in NC on 01/19/2020 12:46 pm
Nearly 3 hour interview with Hans Koenigsmann in German
https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2020/01/17/rz083-spacex/
Not sure if anybody would be interested in a translation or if Raumzeit would approve this..
Reddit user Ti-Z has translated the main points of the interview here (https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/epzayc/german_raumzeit_podcast_with_hans_koenigsmann/feobsfz/). There are some interesting notes, but most of it is known.

While most might be known, I found it really informative to have it all talked about in one sitting. Plus some of the interesting notes were *very* interesting.

Would it be bad form to copy that summery here for prosperity's sake?

AIUI that should be welcomed with appropriate link and citation of source for crediting.  But do it for posterity, not prosperity.   ;)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Mandella on 01/19/2020 08:29 pm
Summery translation of the Raumzeit (https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2020/01/17/rz083-spacex/) podcast by Reddit member Ti-Z, original thread here (https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/epzayc/german_raumzeit_podcast_with_hans_koenigsmann/feobsfz/).

I have left in Ti-Z's opening summery.

[spoiler]
I think it is very worthwhile to listen to Hans speaking here if one understands German. The discussion seems to be aimed at an audience with technical knowledge, but which is not necessarily familiar with SpaceX or rocket science in general. Host seems to pretend to have almost no knowledge, but from the discussions it is clear that he certainly is familiar with the topic and is well-prepared. Which I think is a good way to ensure that the discussion remains understandable to non-experts throughout.

I tried to write down all pieces of information which are beyond a certain threshold of technical detail, i.e., I left out parts explaining very basic things like what a two-stage vehicle is and that you would want to encapsulate your satellite in a fairing. I don't think that any of the information shared is entirely new.

Translating and summarising at the same time in addition to Hans attempts to formulate technical details in a commonly understandable way might have lead to misleading items below. If your are particularly interested in a specific point please let me know and I (or someone else) might be able to provide an accurate translation of the corresponding passage.

With that out of the way, the podcast in chronological order:

4th engineer when joined in May 2002

since then the 3rd left, so he considers himself the 3rd now
met Elon together with Gwynne (she was his boss back then) in early 2002

at an amateur rocket launch meet-up
two months later, Elon contacted Hans and asked whether he would join a new company
Elon moved from Silicon valley to LA for SpaceX (since talent is there)
Elon from the beginning hat his philosophy of making life multiplanetary

first task: build a rocket one can build with a small number of people
make most of the key components in-house
solve the most difficult problems first (i.e. first the engines)
1st Falcon-1 start was really expected to succeed

some weld in/near the engine failed and things burned
company culture (from the beginning)

communication really important
the best idea is supposed to win in a discussion regardless of rank
much freedom for engineers (e.g. to buy stuff)
time is money, but not just that; hence work as fast as possible
-> Elon used his personal plane to carry employees between LA and McGregor to save time
-> have extremely ambitious timelines, since projects take longer in any case
development

what is physically necessary?
what is there in the space industry and what of it actually makes sense?
also taking inspiration from other industries (e.g. cars)
engine was developed rather independently
-> Merlin initially had 25 valves, which got significantly reduced since then
-> Merlin was initially optimised to be built in-house, later optimised for performance
software & electronics

use modern equipment, but test for radiation-resistance
launch software rather easy, landing software was/is a challenge
-> initially 1-2 software engineers for Falcon-9
Linux-based operating system (own SpaceX-Version), much OpenSource used
company culture (as the company grows)

initially aimed at as few people as possible due to increasing complexity
communication between specialists tends to be difficult
1st Falcon-1: about 250 employees
4th Falcon-1: about 300 employees
weekly meetings with Elon and VPs to ensure communication (technical meetings)
reuseability

despite quick success of SpaceX, failures were present
-> efforts to recover Falcon-1 via parachutes was seen internally as a failure
-> likewise early landing tests of Falcon-9 were seen internally as failures
learning recoverability while having successful primary missions was useful
sat-dish on ADAS causes loss-of-signal
learning from failures (e.g. landings) can take weeks or months
fairing recovery
-> large area and low mass, thus theoretically easy to reenter
-> in practice: took some time to get this properly done
Falcon-1 and transition to Falcon-9

initially thought that there is a market for it (intended to keep it)
-> eventually realised that the market is just to small
-> started Falcon-9 development prior to 4th Falcon-1 launch
Falcon-9 to actually make money
-> satellite market
-> dragon
each Merlin of Falcon-9 has its own computer (ethernet connection to main computer)
Falcon-1 launch site (Kwajalein, Marshall Islands)
-> because clearance for AirForce bases (Vandy,Cape) was difficult to get
-> in hindsight: convenient that failures were not that publicly visible
moved to the Cape due to the airport of Kwajalein being unable to handle the weights of satellites
Falcon-9

frequent iterations did indeed happen, but main changes in the block-changes
subsequent block-5 boosters nowadays sometimes do not feature changes
how does a launch of Falcon-9 play out?

choice of launch pad due to inclination
-> does not mention polar orbits from the cape
-> can change launch pads for a mission if known sufficiently far in advance
once static fire is completed, mission timeline is stringent
-> fleet has to depart in advance
upper level wind shear
-> if wind direction changes rapidly, rocket has to correct which causes stress on the vehicle and could potentially break up
launch hazard area
-> works well with planes (pilots can loose license if entering)
-> works less well with ships (USAF will send helicopters if ships are in exclusion zone, first just hover over them, but if they don't leave drop a bottle with a message "please leave")
start-up fully automated days in advance
-> press a button a few days prior to launch to initiate and then monitor
-> GSE first, Falcon-9 joins later
ignition 2-3 seconds prior to liftoff
-> Hans did not know that ArianeSpace uses L-0s for ignition and thinks it is strange (should liftoff at 0s, obviously)
dragon-1 is close to the edge between return-to-launch-site and ASDS (which type of landing is used depends on the mission mass)
pneumatic separation between the stages
how does a landing of Falcon-9 play out?

flip of Falcon-9 is such that the rotation is canceld by the Merlin, not the thrusters (thus ignition needs to be quite precise)
4-6g of acceleration if using 3 Merlins on empty stage
first stage has almost identical navigation hardware
-> gyroscopes (fibre-optical) & accelerometers
-> GPS (exemption from the hight-limit)
-> GPS primary, gyroscopes & accelerometers secondary (will diverge after approximately 1 minute due to measurement error)
-> flight computer
entry burn at about 30 km (just prior to reentry)
grid fins could also have been normal fins, but grid fins more compact and easier to retract
from grid fin movement one can deduce how hard Falcon-9 has to work (slow, smooth movement indicates that rocket is on course)
landing development
-> Grasshopper was managed by ~20 people
-> F9R did not get high enough to properly test grid fins, but could test on actual missions
boostback does not have to be so precise (~100m), entry burn more precise (~10m), finally landing burn (~1m)
landing sequence
-> needs GPS for position and uses radar to determine high
-> shutdown during hoverslam for has to precise (~0.1 seconds)
-> usual landing accuracy of ~3-4 meters (determined by GPS and wind)
droneship landing

ASDS landing very worth it indeed (ships may be expensive to operate but the most expensive thing by far is the rocket)
names for ASDS were Elon's idea (names for fairing catchers might have been suggested by others)
first landing

NatGeo asked whether they could film the first land landing, and Hans thinks that they did a great job
Elon went to see the landing, Hans & control room monitored the second stage
falcon heavy

no added difficulty for landing, the side boosters just do their own thing ignoring the other
STP-2 mission was a very demanding mission
several FH missions in manifest
reuseability

have a lot of first stages lying around everywhere
building one rocket instead of ten which is very worth it
refurbishment has a learning curve (which parts have to be very closely inspected, which can just briefly be checked)
mass production vs reuseability (host notes that reusing rockets means loosing mass production benefits)
-> mass production only beneficial at ~10000 units, thus only minor benefits there
-> reusing rockets, however, has large benefit
-> added value of being able to inspect the rocket after flight
-> if there is something strange found at inspection (e.g. leak), put a camera (GoPro) there (a few per flight at varying locations in addition to ~10 cameras on board which send video to ground during flight)
-> Hans would really like to have the same option for the 2nd stage (currently problems found on 1st stage are sometimes applied to 2nd stage, too, if systems are similar)
customers initially were sceptical using flight-proven rockets, but now some even prefer once-flown rockets
Hans hopes/believes that rockets will become much safer due to the possibility of inspection after flight
2nd stage recovery

would need heat shield which is difficult and heavy
there where experiments with 2nd stage reentries which proved that point
2nd stage is more than 10% of cost of the vehicle (more redundancy, main flight computer) [note: host suggests 10% because 1 of 10 engines, and Hans says "well it is certainly more than that"]
innovations by SpaceX / things SpaceX learned over time

sub-cooled propellant
many small things (e.g. size of dampers in landing legs)
GSE changes
Mars

does Elon want to got to Mars personally? Yes, Hans thinks so
why steel?
-> steel becomes stronger when cold
-> steel can handle high temperatures during reentry
Starship & Super-Heavy
-> hight of Starship 68m, Super-Heavy ~100m
-> development cannot compared to - say - SLS where there is billions of $$$, which SpaceX does not have (Starship is self-financed); thus scrappy
Hans is sure that when Starship flies to Mars, there will be scientific payload on board
plan is to prove the concept now; once that is done, search for customers
refilling at orbit makes the architecture cheap (due to reuseability)
manned mission to Mars "will take a while", there will certainly be a cargo flight first
preparation for Mars missions
-> there is active work at SpaceX regarding radiation protection, etc.
-> likewise, work is being done to develop propellant production and Mars logistics
-> main focus is building Starship, since in other areas partners can help
~10 Raptors built so far [podcast was recorded 18.11.2019]
-> transition period from development engines to production engines
-> has been 2 years of raptor development
-> less soot should help with reuseabilty compared to Merlin
first manned mission
-> propellant production has to be prepared by cargo mission
-> navigation might be a challenge, manned mission needs to land near previous cargo mission
Hans expects delays in the program
-> SpaceX needs to find partners in the final stages (nations, agencies, e.g. NASA, ...)
SpaceX vs other organisations ("SpaceX diplomacy")

SpaceX is a close partner of NASA
-> NASA helped SpaceX at a critical point for the company (F9 development)
-> SpaceX helpes NASA to return human launch capability to the US
-> 2020-21 SpaceX wants to approach NASA regarding Mars missions and coordinate with them
-> SpaceX wants to participate in Artemis programme
NASA and USAF contracts were helpful, but also much own development by SpaceX (e.g. FH)
other organisations/agencies
-> mainly competition
-> there is a trend by nations to use their rockets for their payloads
dragon

dragon-1 is reusable (so far up to three times)
dragon-2 improvements
-> electronics & avionics
-> solar panels on trunk sufficient
-> docking instead of berthing (Hans jokes: what happens if CanadaArm breaks?)
Starlink

Hans does not know whether the first two Starlink satellites are still in orbit
maximal size of constellation 30k satellites
-> want to make sure that the upper bound is high enough to never encounter problems with it
-> first 700 satellites should be sufficient for basic coverage at certain latitudes
Hans is not really involved in Starlink and claims to have no detailed knowledge
Starlink is a new kind of project due to having millions of customers
-> want to learn from Tesla & SolarCity
upper stages rotates for Starlink satellite deployment making use of centrifugal force to make sure that satellites separate
few weeks for the satellites to reach final orbit
can reuse dragon ground stations for Starlink
if Starlink were to use higher frequencies in the future, receiver might become smaller
Hans does not think that Starlink satellites will cause trouble for astronomy
-> solar panel faces the sun thus most of the surface of the satellites reflects light back to the sun and hence causes no trouble
-> initial Starlink train is misleadingly well visible and thus not representative
-> there should only be half a dozen satellites visible at any time
Hans would like more companies to develop more things themselves and be innovative in the space industry

Hans does not want to fly to Moon or Mars (but maybe to the ISS?)

[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 02/02/2020 08:38 am
https://youtu.be/H-bzK9V0fd4
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Johnnyhinbos on 02/02/2020 01:44 pm
Great presentation - but who is presenting? The user who posted YouTube video gave no credit.


Could someone please give this guy credit?


Thanks,
John
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Cheapchips on 02/02/2020 01:54 pm
And context.  Who was he addressing?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 02/02/2020 02:33 pm
And context.  Who was he addressing?

Must have been a general event. At 5:01 he mentions a previous presentation from Colonel Henderson which is probably Scott Henderson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-henderson-0625b831/), previously SpaceX's director of Mission Assurance and Integration and now Orbital Launch Director at Blue Origin.
Time frame must have been between 01/20 (after the IFA) and before 01/26 (before Starlink 3 slipped to 1/29).
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Johnnyhinbos on 02/02/2020 02:48 pm
And context.  Who was he addressing?

Must have been a general event. At 5:01 he mentions a previous presentation from Colonel Henderson which is probably Scott Henderson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-henderson-0625b831/), previously SpaceX's director of Mission Assurance and Integration and now Orbital Launch Director at Blue Origin.
Time frame must have been between 01/20 (after the IFA) and before 01/26 (before Starlink 3 slipped to 1/29).
I asked to poster to add credit and context, which he’s now done.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 02/02/2020 02:50 pm
I asked to poster to add credit and context, which he’s now done.

" by Christopher Couluris, Director of Vehicle Integration, Space X"
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Semmel on 02/02/2020 03:32 pm
Very interesting talk. Some specifics that I didnt know before:

at 7:15: Price of F9 recoverable: 30 Million (I think he means cost, as price is what the customer pays and cost is what SpaceX spends on it)

at 10:50: Maximum wave height or drone ship recovering is 12 feet. Thou frequency is more important: 12 feet waves at 12s intervals is fine. 12 feet waves at 6s intervals is bad.

at 13:20: stage refurbishment by maintenance crew, following air-plane model. Takes about 30 days to return a booster to flight.

at 15:15: 11 F9 boosters ready to fly at the cape.

at 18:50: flight abort in space by just re-entering without ejection.

at 26:10: We are at Raptor SN20 (read this earlier today. This seems to be the source).

at 27:20: a Starship ring fabricated in 10 minutes, entire stack possible in 1 day using a water tower machine (oohh god..)


@edit: added clarification to the last two points. Was too absorbed in the talk to notice I wrote out of context.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: matthewkantar on 02/02/2020 05:42 pm
Was watching this at 1:40 eastern time on February 2nd, it went private one third of the way through. Oh well.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 02/02/2020 05:54 pm
at 7:15: Price of F9 recoverable: 30 Million (I think he means cost, as price is what the customer pays and cost is what SpaceX spends on it)

At 23:50 he mentions a $28 million cost.  As you say, he seems to be mixing up price and cost a lot.  If that's the price, then wow...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: billh on 02/02/2020 06:33 pm
Was watching this at 1:40 eastern time on February 2nd, it went private one third of the way through. Oh well.
Yeah, it just stopped in the middle of the presentation while I was watching it. I guess that's what happened to me, too.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/02/2020 09:37 pm
Anyone manage to rip a copy in the very short time it was up? 😭
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: niwax on 02/02/2020 10:54 pm
at 7:15: Price of F9 recoverable: 30 Million (I think he means cost, as price is what the customer pays and cost is what SpaceX spends on it)

At 23:50 he mentions a $28 million cost.  As you say, he seems to be mixing up price and cost a lot.  If that's the price, then wow...

I'm pretty sure he meant actual price. I made a note of this and the ring construction speed in particular but haven't had a chance to rewatch before it was taken offline.

Also interesting (or fairly anti-climactic if you will): The design of both Starship and booster was entirely unchanged since the last official presentations.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Mandella on 02/02/2020 11:00 pm
Was watching this at 1:40 eastern time on February 2nd, it went private one third of the way through. Oh well.
Yeah, it just stopped in the middle of the presentation while I was watching it. I guess that's what happened to me, too.

The whole recorded bit of the presentation was only twenty something minutes (28, by memory), and it did stop abruptly, even before it was made private (I watched it before one o'clock).

Edited to add: I really don't think there was any reason the video was taken down other than that it was supposed to be a private talk to a particular group who may have even paid to get in.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 02/03/2020 08:43 am
The whole recorded bit of the presentation was only twenty something minutes (28, by memory), and it did stop abruptly, even before it was made private (I watched it before one o'clock).

The last Frame was at 28:19 min. I captured it:
(https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=49328.0;attach=1610753;image)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Cheapchips on 02/10/2020 09:00 am

Garrett Reisman (SpaceX advisor, ex Director of Space Operations and Astronaut) interviewed on Joe Rogan.  About an hour before he talks anything SpaceX and nothing particularly new there.  Always interesting to hear astronauts talk about their experiences though.

Video

https://youtu.be/3RG5pXTpLBI

Audio

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/garrett-reisman
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AndrewRG10 on 02/16/2020 05:50 am
Was watching this at 1:40 eastern time on February 2nd, it went private one third of the way through. Oh well.
Yeah, it just stopped in the middle of the presentation while I was watching it. I guess that's what happened to me, too.

I know I'm late but I decided to get into contact with the guy who posted it and apparently he got pressured to remove it. I presume by SpaceX who didn't want a private talk being shown around the space community.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 02/16/2020 01:55 pm
The next NASA Advisory Council HEO Committee meeting is March 3-4
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/14/2020-02956/nasa-advisory-council-human-explorations-and-operations-committee-meeting
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 02/21/2020 05:56 pm
NAC HEO agenda: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nac_heo_public_agenda_march_3-4_finalrev1.pdf

Tuesday, March 3, 2020  * All times are Eastern Time *

1:05 - 2:00 HEOMD Update Mr. Doug Loverro
2:00 - 2:30 Budget
2:45 - 3:45 Advanced Exploration Systems
3:45 - 4:45 Gateway

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

8:35 - 9:30 Exploration Systems Development
9:30 - 10:30 ISS
10:45 - 11:45 Commercial Crew

Dial-In (audio): 1-800-593-9971 or 1-517-308-9316
  passcode: 4648477

WebEx: https://nasaenterprise.webex.com/nasaenterprise/
   meeting number is 900 509 394
   password is Exploration2020# (case sensitive).
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/26/2020 02:44 pm
Starting shortly ...

https://twitter.com/spacepadreisle/status/1232692137717911553

Quote
Join me live from 10-11am CST for the Brownsville 2030 Space City panel discussion with @STARSocietyRGV and @SpaceX

SpaceX are giving a presentation. Hopefully will touch on future plans for BC?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/26/2020 02:55 pm
Live stream (hopefully) not yet started

Edit to add: stream now live, although talk not yet started

Stream changed too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fN8rfQ-on0

Nothing new in the SpaceX intro. Showed existing animations and video of Starhoppers flight. Talked about testing of Starship this year at BC but no specifics.

UPDATE: stream has now been deleted (although it was a public event). I'll keep an eye out in case it's added later
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Olaf on 02/27/2020 02:48 pm
https://twitter.com/waynehale/status/1233047419870380033
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 02/27/2020 03:49 pm
https://twitter.com/waynehale/status/1233047419870380033

This is in regards to the March 3-4 NAC HEO meeting being postponed.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: pyromatter on 02/28/2020 02:10 pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

10:55 am - 11:55 am   

Keynote/Fireside Chat

Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer and Lt Gen John F. Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base

Source https://www.afa.org/events/airwarfare/agenda
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/28/2020 03:27 pm
https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233422408729710593

Quote
SpaceX @elonmusk onstage at #AWS2020 for fireside chat with @SMC_CC Gets rousing ovation

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233422872212918272

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Musk: the creation of the Space Force is cool. It makes sense there’s a branch for every domain

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233423611303690241

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Musk: we can make Starfleet real but we have to make radical innovations. We won’t get there with expendable rockets

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233423959988822016

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Musk: US has to create breakthrough innovation , incremental is not good enough #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233424701512396803

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Musk: US has to innovate or it will be second in space. How ? Reusability is extremely fundamental for assured access to space

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233425124239511552

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Musk: vehicle we’re working on #starship is the holy grail which is full reusability #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233425586258923520

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Musk: it would be good to have other companies develop competing reusable vehicles like Starship . He mentions the F-35. Would be nice to have competition ... hmmmm

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233426204214079488

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Musk: failure has to be an option . What you want is to reward success but there should be minor consequences for trying and not suceeding. And major consequences for not trying #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233427004210413569

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Musk: volume production and volume launch of a reusable system is super super hard. Not reusable like the Space Shuttle. Has to be agile like an aircraft. Shuttle too expensive #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233427459959382017

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Musk: building a city in Mars will require fully reusable vehicles to lift 5 million tons of cargo #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233428138056658945

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Musk: Starlink satellites are being produced faster than we can launch them. We need Starship for launch costs to come down  #AWS2020

Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233429634076860416

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Musk: in the next five years one of the most transformative technologies will be AI . I tell young people to study computer science and physics #AWS2020
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/28/2020 03:31 pm
twitter.com/joroulette/status/1233426010311401473

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Musk at #AWS2020 on an incentive structure for amping innovation: innovation is awarded [rewarded?] and lack of innovation is punished. "If someone is completely failing to innovate... then they should either not be promoted or exited. And let me tell you, you’ll get innovation real fast."

https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1233427150675509249

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Musk: Designing a rocket is "a piece of cake." The hard part is producing it and launching frequently.

Rapid reuse is essential. Not like the Shuttle, whose turnaround was slow and incomplete.

twitter.com/joroulette/status/1233428033580797953

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Musk: Starlink production is going well, "we made many iterations on Starlink prototypes... Now the sats are being launched [produced?] at a rate faster than we can launch them" and the cost has gone down, and will keep coming down as we design improvement.

https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1233428661992411138

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Musk says SpaceX will need to use Starship to launch the full Starlink constellation rapidly.

On satellite design, Musk says it's important to blend design with the manufacturing process. "We brought up the Starlink production line before we had the design finalized."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/28/2020 03:50 pm
https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233430618089848832

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Musk: When you have assured low cost access to space other technologies will be enabled. Many things are possible once the transport problem is solved . Establishing a self sustaining base on Mars opens opportunities #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233431192638234624

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Musk: the future of air warfare is in autonomous drone warfare. But we still want to retain authority with a person in the loop. The fighter jet era has passed #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233432436106833921

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Musk: how do we protect our IP at Tesla? We don’t . We have open source patents . IP protection is done by innovating rapidly and staying ahead of competitors #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233433132319301633

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Musk: China has a lot of smart hard working people. They’re going to do a lot of interesting things. China’s economy is going to be at least twice or three times the size of the US economy #AWS2020

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233434163128172544

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Musk: in order for US to be militarily competitive with China we need radical innovation. At SpaceX we have an incentive structure so big mistakes don’t come with a big penalty but not trying is worse #AWS20

https://twitter.com/sandra_i_erwin/status/1233434578305548289

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Musk: final message to #AWS20 ‘we have to make starfleet happen’ while we’re still alive. Try to make it happen ASAP
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Tulse on 02/28/2020 05:44 pm
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the future of air warfare is in autonomous drone warfare. But we still want to retain authority with a person in the loop. The fighter jet era has passed
That can't have made the fighter cabal happy. Elon is treading on some Air Force toes there.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Vettedrmr on 02/28/2020 06:11 pm
That can't have made the fighter cabal happy. Elon is treading on some Air Force toes there.

Trust me, AF knows about autonomous vehicles for a long time.  Probably treading on fewer toes than would popularly be thought, as many of those toes are planning (or should be at least) to pivot to autonomous vehicle ops.

Have a good one,
Mike
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 02/28/2020 08:15 pm
Video of the interview...

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Events-2020/videoid/741194/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/28/2020 09:14 pm
Someone has uploaded to YouTube

https://youtu.be/IwYWmSMuVmM
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rashomon on 02/28/2020 10:06 pm
https://twitter.com/acqtalk/status/1233442400074420225?s=21
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/02/2020 09:08 pm
https://twitter.com/erdayastronaut/status/1234600343880785921

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I’m excited to announce I’ll be hosting a panel about whether humans should explore the moon or Mars next at @sxsw this year (assuming it’s not canceled) Check out our awesome panel featuring @SpaceX’s Hans Koeningsmann, @TheSpaceGal and @AmyShiraTeitel!

It’s on March 18th at 5pm local, Austin Texas (so 11pm UTC)

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2020/events/PP1137524
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/06/2020 09:09 pm
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2020 EVENT UPDATE
City of Austin Cancels SXSW March Events


The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions.

We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation.

As recently as Wednesday, Austin Public Health stated that “there’s no evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer.” However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and respect the City of Austin’s decision. We are committed to do our part to help protect our staff, attendees, and fellow Austinites.

We are exploring options to reschedule the event and are working to provide a virtual SXSW online experience as soon as possible for 2020 participants, starting with SXSW EDU. For our registrants, clients, and participants we will be in touch as soon as possible and will publish an FAQ.

We understand the gravity of the situation for all the creatives who utilize SXSW to accelerate their careers; for the global businesses; and for Austin and the hundreds of small businesses – venues, theatres, vendors, production companies, service industry staff, and other partners that rely so heavily on the increased business that SXSW attracts.

We will continue to work hard to bring you the unique events you love. Though it’s true that our March 2020 event will no longer take place in the way that we intended, we continue to strive toward our purpose – helping creative people achieve their goals.

https://www.sxsw.com/2020-event-update/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RocketGoBoom on 03/08/2020 08:55 pm
Elon is giving the keynote address Monday March 9th at the Satellite 2020 show.

https://www.satshow.com/

Elon speaks at 4:00 PM eastern time.
There is a live stream.

https://www.satshow.com/stream/

Also, at 9:30 AM Jonathan Hofeller is participating in a discussion on Constellation Space Systems for Global Connectivity.
SpaceX Vice President of Starlink, Commercial Sales

https://www.satshow.com/conference-program/

I suspect Elon has something to say about Starlink, otherwise he would not have accepted this invitation to this particular show.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/09/2020 01:19 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1237014736409104388

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Hofeller also mentions the development of Starship, noting that SpaceX will talk more about that rocket "later today" (i.e., Musk's keynote)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/09/2020 04:32 pm
Live stream link for Elon’s talk in about 2.5 hours

Edit: stream link has changed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPV8Xp3pEpI
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: GWH on 03/09/2020 06:49 pm
All aboard the hype train:
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1237101441787015168


Hardly what I would call "sprinting" but hey, looks like folks are excited.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/09/2020 07:14 pm
Elon is delayed - talk now expected to start at half past (so about 16 minutes)

Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1237113117328527363

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A half hour after the ten-minute warning, we get the five-minute warning for Musk’s talk. #SATSHOW
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: envy887 on 03/09/2020 08:27 pm
Elon is delayed - talk now expected to start at half past (so about 16 minutes)

Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1237113117328527363

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A half hour after the ten-minute warning, we get the five-minute warning for Musk’s talk. #SATSHOW

That was a terrible interview. Only new thing I heard was that the Starlink IPO in not really on the table right now, it needs to be a stable business before spinning off.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: theinternetftw on 03/10/2020 01:09 am
It's better read than watched, and he gets more into real stuff the longer the interview goes on.

Here's the transcript:

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/02cef17d21ede6a59ec5001704b65880
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: oiorionsbelt on 03/10/2020 02:34 am
There was something poignant about his intensity to innovate after being asked about Crew Dragon.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: theinternetftw on 03/10/2020 08:35 am
Here's the new intro that was used in the SATELLITE 2020 talk.

https://streamable.com/3qsis
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: M.E.T. on 03/10/2020 12:46 pm
I like this version of Musk. Too tired for the niceties, so he just tells it like it is.

Crew Dragon is - similar to Soyuz- 50’s dead end technology. Starship is what matters.

The moon is a pointless sideshow. Mars should be the destination.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: thirtyone on 03/10/2020 07:22 pm
Does anyone know if other talks from Satellite 2020 are or will be available? (Like the rocket panel with Shotwell or satellite panels)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/23/2020 12:15 am
https://twitter.com/hackclub/status/1253073891049734150

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We’re excited to announce that @ElonMusk is doing an AMA this Friday at 1pm PT / 4pm ET with Hack Club students! 🚀🛰☀️🚘🧠🕳

Follow us at @hackclub we'll post a link to the livestream 20 min before the AMA starts so you can tune in!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Kang54 on 05/07/2020 01:26 pm
This is bound to be interesting: https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1258278935361654784
Hopefully not too interesting; it's been prerecorded and seemingly a while ago.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: codav on 05/07/2020 04:51 pm
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with Elon Musk was just released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: soltasto on 06/05/2020 10:34 am
There is going to be soon a reddit AMA with SpaceX software engineers on r/SpaceX. More info to come soon
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: soltasto on 06/05/2020 07:35 pm
Here is the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/

Post your questions there, they will be answered tomorrow!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/05/2020 08:09 pm
Here is the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/

Post your questions there, they will be answered tomorrow!

Worth noting who the SpaceX people are and what they do:

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We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything!

Hi r/spacex

We're a few of the SpaceX team members who helped develop and deploy software that flew Dragon and powered the touchscreen displays on our human spaceflight demonstration mission (aka Crew Demo-2). Now that Bob and Doug are on board the International Space Station and Dragon is in a quiescent state, we are here to answer any questions you might have about Dragon, software and working at SpaceX.

**We are**:

* Jeff Dexter - I run Flight Software and Cybersecurity at SpaceX
* Josh Sulkin - I am the software design lead for Crew Dragon
* Wendy Shimata - I manage the Dragon software team and worked fault tolerance and safety on Dragon
* John Dietrick - I lead the software development effort for Demo-2
* Sofian Hnaide - I worked on the Crew Displays software for Demo-2
* Matt Monson - I used to work on Dragon, and now lead Starlink software

We'll be here answering your questions on Saturday, June 6 from 12:00 to 1:30pm PT.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: soltasto on 06/06/2020 07:40 pm
The event has started, many questions already answered!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/06/2020 08:53 pm
The event has started, many questions already answered!

I think this nicely demonstrates Elon’s and SpaceX’s philosophy:

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What is the single craziest/most impossible thing management (aka Elon) has asked you to do?

spacexfsw Official SpaceX
27 minutes ago
I recall for F9-14 I was in Elon's cube telling him the news that there was no way we could get all of the new S1 landing code done in time for the upcoming launch in 2 weeks. After some thought, he looked over to Lars Blackmore who was there with us and asked if we implement the code, what was our probability of landing. Lars said around 90%. Paraphrasing, Elon looked at us and basically said "can you give me 50%". I said in 2 weeks we can definitely write enough of the logic to get to a 50% probability of landing! We didn't land F9-14 (you can see it on our blooper reel) but we learned a LOT from it, and it was instrumental in eventually landing F9-21. A critical part of our success is our willingness to fail in ways that won't compromise the mission, as long as we are constantly learning from our failures. - Jeff
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 06/07/2020 11:35 am
Full Q&A copied from reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/):

Quote from: Turcik
Congrats for the huge achievement, and thanks for doing this AMA!

1. What is the most used programming language for developing the F9 and Dragon software? Is it C or C++?
2. What programming paradigm are you using to develop the software for F9 and Dragon? Procedural, Object Oriented, Functional, a combination?
3. Are you using any open source software (I am mostly referring to libraries)? If the answer is "yes", which one is used the most (or the most important/relevant)? If the answer is "no", do you at least use the standard library provided by the language (e.g. C++ STL), or is everything implemented in-house?
4. How do you perform error detection and correction during flight?
5. Is the software composed of small (sometimes independent) modules, or is everything integrated in one big module? For example, how tight is the integration of the Crew Dragon GNC module with the module that handles the Crew Dragon environment (pressure, oxygen level, temperature etc.)?
6. If you were to delete the entire codebase, how much time do you estimate it would take to reimplement everything from scratch (having the current team and the accumulated know-how)? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? Do you think the result would be better than the current implementation? What would you do different from what is currently done?
7. Maybe a bit related to #6: how often do you completely reimplement a module in order to make it better (faster/cleaner/safer etc.), instead of refactoring existing code?

spacexfsw: All of the application-level autonomous software is written in C++. We generally use object oriented programming techniques from C++, although we like to keep things as simple as possible. We do use open source libraries, primarily the standard C++ library, plus some others. However, we limit our use of open source libraries to only extremely high quality ones, and often will opt to develop our own libraries when it is feasible so that we can control the code quality ourselves. In terms of error handling, there are a lot of different facets to that. Radiation induced errors in computers are handled by having multiple redundant computers and voting on their outputs. Errors in sensors are handled by having multiple different sensors. Errors in data transmission are handled by using error-detecting or error-correcting codes attached to payloads. The software is definitely composed of multiple small modules, the design of which was one of the main things I worked on. There is a hierarchy to the design from low-level component, to sub-system, to entire vehicle. Different subsystems are generally isolated from each other, sometimes in the same computer, sometimes across different computers, with narrow interfaces between them. I'm not sure how long it would take us to re-write the code base from scratch. We don't plan on deleting it any time soon. – Josh


Quote from: hero-sl
Congratulations on the successful launch of an amazing spacecraft! Here are my Questions 1. Please give a very high level overview of the control program of Falcon9 and Dragon. What kind of communication links used in between Dragon and Falcon9?

1. Does the control software running on Falcon9 is a custom build made for mission (LEO Satellite launch, ISS resupply etc)? Or it's the same base software with different set of parameters/goals/scripts?

2. How does AFTS software work?

3. Please name a few open source software used for Falcon/Dragon other than Linux kernel and Chromium

4. Do software engineering teams of Falcon/Dragon play any role on the actual launch day?

Thanks a lot guys. Keep up the amazing work. All the best!

spacexfsw:
1. At a very high level, we have many computers on the vehicle, each built and configured to best suit the task it's assigned. They all run in time synchronization with each other, and the flight computer oversees all actions. Almost everything can be expressed as a real-time control loop: you read some sensors, you make a decision (combination of your sensors and past state), and then issue the outputs of that decision back to the hardware. This happens many times per second. - Dietrick

2. We run the same source on Falcon for every mission, though we're still updating that software pretty regularly and usually have new code on each mission. We also have configs for the software that are provided from other engineering groups that typically change every mission. These make changes to things like state machines, fault tolerance thresholds, day of launch winds, etc. that the software leverages to fly the vehicle. - Jeff

3. The Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS - it's all about safety) software runs on a set of microcontrollers independent from the flight computer. It receives sensor inputs directly (e.g. IMU measurements) as well as some computed inputs from the flight computer. A Mission Data Load configures the AFSS for which conditions might require termination of the flight, such as the rocket going way off course, losing all acceleration, etc. - Jeff

4. Das U-Boot, Buildroot, MUSL. Outside of the OS and the Crew Displays software, we don't use as much outside software as you might think – we try to keep our programs simple, slim, and based on code we understand throughout. - Dietrick

5. Absolutely, although nominally it's in a support / double-check capacity. We spend a lot of time poring over data from the live vehicle before the mission gets started, and we have software folks in Mission Control throughout all the important phases of flight, just in case something comes up. We have a great mission training team that pits our Mission Control operators against a variety of scenarios in simulations before flight, and our hope is that the real launch day is a lot more boring than those sims! I'm happy to say that for Demo 2 so far, that's been the case! - Dietrick

Fun fact – Josh and Wendy both sat on console in mission control for Demo-1 and Demo-2 flights, and John supported docking for both flights! Look for us on the webcast :) - Wendy


Quote from: captaincool
How do you address technical debt within your organization? Does the constant pressure to deliver that Elon companies are famous for prevent you from going back and revisiting past designs?

Do you track performance of your code? I'd imagine it's a critical design parameter for an embedded software system with critical timing constrains like yours, so I'm wondering how your approach compares to something like the videogame industry, where such a practice is common but likely not as rigorous as what would be required for spaceflight.

What level of rigor is being put into starlink security? How can we, as normal citizens, become comfortable with the idea of a private company flying thousands of internet satellites in a way that's safe enough for them to not be remote controlled by a bad actor? This has potential multi-generation impacts if your team gets this wrong, so it would be awesome if you could speak publicly about the strategy.

spacexfsw: We're mindful of outstanding tech debt, and because we're a small team any kind of inefficiency is very prominent flight over flight. For many of our vehicles that we fly often, we strive to invest in an operational team to ensure we can burn down this tech debt and make each subsequent flight as painless as possible. There is always a lot going on though, so with any decision of how to spend our time we need to think about the right balance between moving the needle forward in terms of features and burning down existing debt. - Wendy

We do – we use a continuous integration system such that our code is always being tested, but we also analyze this data real-time to ensure our performance metrics are within expected bounds. The cases are set up such that if we violate any key performance indicators, the case 'fails' and an engineer takes a look. - Wendy

In general with security, there are many layers to this. For starters, we designed the system to use end-to-end encryption for our users' data, to make breaking into a satellite or gateway less useful to an attacker who wants to intercept communications. Every piece of hardware in our system (satellites, gateways, user terminals) is designed to only run software signed by us, so that even if an attacker breaks in, they won't be able to gain a permanent foothold. And then we harden the insides of the system (including services in our data centers) to make it harder for an exploited vulnerability in one area to be leveraged somewhere else. We're continuing to work hard to ensure our overall system is properly hardened, and still have a lot of work ahead of us (we're hiring!), but it's something we take very seriously. – Matt


Quote from: zlsa
Hi! Congratulations on the picture-perfect launch of Bob and Doug!

1. It's known that Crew Dragon displays are running Chromium and JS. Are you using a reactive library, and if so, is that developed in-house or is it an existing library/framework?
2. Was the docking simulator developed by the Crew Displays software team itself, or was it a separate project?
3. In some shots of mission control, I noticed UI very similar to the displays in Crew Dragon. Can the exact same crew display software be served from a server on the ground, feeding off of live telemetry from Dragon while in flight? If so, can/will this software be used to monitor Cargo Dragon as well on future flights?
4. Is there any chance of getting high-resolution screenshots of the crew displays? It's hands-down the prettiest UI I've ever seen in aerospace.
5. One regarding Starlink: how did creating the Crew Display software affect the development of the Starlink interface for SpaceX operations (map views, data visualizations, etc.)?
Thanks for the AMA!

spacexfsw:
1. Yes we use Chromium and we do use a reactive library that we developed in house. - Sofian

2. The docking simulator is completely separate code from what's actually in the Crew displays, though it was developed by our Crew displays team. It started out as a fun project from Shane Mielke and Mike Westenhaver before we decided to finish it up and put it on the web before Demo-2. - Jeff

3. We can and do run the exact same code that's on the Crew displays on the ground. The only limitation is that we don't necessarily get all of the same telemetry that we have in the cockpit on the ground due to limitations in our RF budget. We could but we generalize prioritize getting other critical telemetry instead. - Jeff.

4. We definitely want to share some high res screenshots of the Crew displays. We'll see if we can get this approved so we can show you what Bob and Doug were able to see up close. - Jeff

5. The tech from the crew displays (especially the map and alerts) formed the basis of our UI for the first couple Starlink satellites (Tintin). It's grown a ton since then, but it was awesome to see Bob and Doug using something that somehow felt familiar to us too. – Matt


Quote from: btimar
SpaceX is known for its hardware-in-the-loop testing:

* What fraction (roughly) of SWE person-hours go into developing these systems?
* What does the development cycle for flight simulators look like (for the Falcon systems, say)? How frequently are they updated based on telemetry? What's the hardest part of the launch cycle to model?
* With a few hundred starlink satellites in orbit, are there parts of individual or constellation operation that you've come to realize are not well covered in testing?
* How far down into physics do the starlink tests go? E.g. if you're trying to estimate latencies for inter-satellite or satellite-ground communication, can you treat the radio channels as a black box, or do you try to model the phased array operation as well?

I'm also curious about computing hardware - SpaceX is famous for building components in-house. With Starlink eyeing tens of thousands of satellites in earth orbit, are there any areas where custom ASICs would be cheaper than COTS solutions? Are there instances of components that are "over-engineered" to the Starlink ~< 10 year lifespan (perhaps for radiation tolerance) that could be rebuilt for a significant cost savings?

Finally, any insights you have on system design (hardware + software from physics level up) for packet delivery with minimal latency would be fascinating.

Thanks very much in advance!

spacexfsw: When making changes, we expect our engineers to think critically (and question each other) about functional testing (how do I know that my change works?) and regression testing (how will I know if I broke something else, or if this breaks in the future?). Building test cases we can run on the ground is a great way to answer these questions, and we do a lot of that, but it's not the only way.

For Starlink, we need to think of our satellites more like servers in a data center than special one-of-a-kind vehicles. There are some things that we need to be absolutely sure of (commanding, software update, power and hardware safety), and therefore deserve to have specific test cases around. But there's also a lot of things we can be more flexible about -- for these things we can take an approach that's more similar to the way that web services are developed. We can deploy a test build to a small subset of our vehicles, and then compare how it performs against the rest of the fleet. If it doesn't do what we want, we can tweak it and try again before merging it. If we see a problem when rolling it out, we can pause, roll back, and try again. This is a hugely powerful change in how we think about space vehicles, and is absolutely critical to being able to iterate quickly on our system.

We've definitely found places where our test cases had holes. Having hundreds of satellites in space 24/7 will find edge cases in every system, and will mean that you see the crazy edges of the bell curve. The important thing is to be confident about the core that keeps the hardware safe, tells you about the problem, and then gives you time to recover. We've had many instances where a satellite on orbit had a failure we'd never even conceived of before, but was able to keep itself safe long enough for us to debug it, figure out a fix or a workaround, and push up a software update.

And yes, we do a lot of custom ASIC development work on the Starlink project. – Matt


Quote from: Keavon
Could you talk about how Crew Dragon touch screens used Chromium and what challenges that created? What fault-tolerant measures were taken (when such a large underlying codebase powers it) and what efforts went into rad hardening? Was this a good choice in hindsight, and will the same web-based approach go into Starship in the future? What was the user experience (UX) process like with design and user testing?

(I'm a frontend web developer/UX designer/graphics programmer/3D artist/graphic designer straddling the design and engineering disciplines, and it's been my dream to work for SpaceX when I graduate this August. Crew Dragon's user interface has been right down my alley, although current SpaceX job listings are mostly for embedded systems. How can I find the right graphical software project to apply to? I have some contacts at SpaceX, are there any fitting teams or projects I could ask them to send my resume to in particular? Graphical simulations for Starship? Something customer-facing with Starlink?)

spacexfsw: The use of Chromium and Javascript in mission critical environments is a popular question. In order for me to answer this question clearly, we have to understand that chromium in this context is used as a UI rendering engine only. The Flight Software interaction layer with the displays and the fault tolerant is well defined and resides outside the displays boundary. That said, we follow the same development process for all vehicle code regardless of the technology stack. We cross train our developers to write vehicle code in C++ and to carry the same mentality toward writing reliable software. We take reliability & performance very seriously, and just like other vehicle software, we test extensively under different conditions to understand all failure modes. We have alerts & procedures in place to act on those failures in case we encounter them. All of that added to hundreds of hours of sims that we run on flight hardware to train the crew.

While we faced many challenges along the way, we are very happy with our displays and most importantly our 2 customers (so far) are too. Starship ground software is already using the crew displays tech stack and it won't be too long before we start designing human interfaces for Starship. Make sure to apply!

– Sofian

You'll also notice in certain images too that there still exist some hardware buttons in the capsule right below the displays; this is also ensure that in case the displays are unusable for whatever reason, the astronauts can still use hardware buttons to initiate critical actions, such as responding to a fire in the cabin. - Wendy


Quote from: wesleychang42
Hey SpaceXers, thanks for taking the time to do this.

1. I'm in high school, what can I do if I want to get a software job at SpaceX sometime in the future?
2. I live nowhere near Hawthorne. Does SpaceX have jobs based on the East Coast, and if not will SpaceX consider doing so in the future?
3. (for Jeff Dexter) Can you go into some detail into contingency plans during flight? (eg engine failure during ascent, something going wrong during landing, etc.)
4. (for Josh Sulkin) Did the software design team take feedback from Bob and Doug during training?
5. (for Wendy Shimata) How do you calculate LOM (loss of mission) and LOCV (loss of crew/vehicle) numbers for Dragon?
6. (for John Dietrick) Does SpaceX use AI in any of its software?
7. (for Sofian Hnaide) What type of display technology does Dragon use? (eg LCD, IPS, OLED, etc.)
8. (for Matt Monson) When do you expect laser links to be a thing on Starlink satellites?
9. Please make an official SpaceX Kerbal Space Program mod (not a question, but it would be really cool if you actually do this)
Again, thanks for your time!

spacexfsw: Get your CS degree (or something) similar. Spend time to really make sure you know how things work - engineers who do well at SpaceX are meticulous in their understanding of how their code works, how the network works, how Linux works, how the hardware works, etc. Get real world experience building things and solving hard problems, either through hobby projects or in internships (at SpaceX!) - Jeff

Our software engineers are mainly located in Seattle and Hawthorne, though some also work from our Texas sites. If you're seriously interested in joining SpaceX, we're always looking for great engineers, so reach out - never hurts to chat and see if we can make it work. - Jeff

Contingency comes in many forms in our software. As noted, we triplicate almost everything so we can tolerate loss of any one flight computer, sensor, actuator, etc. on Falcon, and any 2 on Dragon. At a system-level, Falcon and Dragon are designed so that loss of things like engines are thrusters can be tolerated, and our algorithms compensate. We can also add certain contingencies to our state machines. For example, the Dragon state machine is designed to autonomously switch from approach to a breakout if certain failures are observed. - Jeff

Yes, the entire software team took feedback from Bob and Doug on all aspects of the software. While they were primarily focused on the displays, button panel, and audio system, Bob and Doug were also very interested in how the software as a whole worked, especially backup capabilities that might be necessary in emergencies. Their feedback was invaluable in making the system better. – Josh

I actually don't know! We have a distinct team in Flight Reliability whose main job is to calculate these numbers and ensure its kept up to date given various hardware and conops changes. - Wendy

Dragon does not use any AI. - Dietrick

Dragon does use some computer vision, though, for navigation. – Josh

LCD - Sofian


Quote from: lucid8
1. How do you test your code before "deploying" it to flight hardware?
2. Do you use Rust for any systems or have thought about it?
3. How important is latency for various software components in Dragon? Does every action have to be instantaneous or there is some wiggle room?
4. What's the amount of telemetry (in GBs) you usually get from Falcon / Dragon / Starlink? Do you run some machine learning / data analysis tools on it?

spacexfsw:
1. For each vehicle, we have a hardware in the loop simulator (all flight critical hardware plus simulated physics and sensing) that we run a huge suite of tests on before ever deploying it to a production vehicle or for flight. Any time we take new software changes (which happens frequently for a development vehicle!) we ensure we run through both unit tests for the code, functional tests to ensure the software works as intended, and system level testing for mission phases for both nominal and off-nominal cases. - Wendy

2. We do not currently, though it comes up once in a while in our internal chat rooms - Wendy

3. Great question - it's very important, and maintaining a fault tolerant computing system relies of ensuring correct timing between all the flight computers. For slower-responding subsystems like life support or thermal control, the response timing has a little more slack (on the order of seconds, depending on the fault we take). - Wendy

4. For Dragon, its in the hundreds of GBs for a typical mission and we do a fair amount of data review after every flight to ensure we understand if the system behaved as we intended. - Wendy

4b. For Starlink, we're currently generating more than 5TB a day of data! We're actively reducing the amount each device sends, but we're also rapidly scaling up the number of satellites (and users) in the system. As far as analysis goes, doing the detection of problems onboard is one of the best ways to reduce how much telemetry we need to send and store (only send it when it's interesting). The alerting system we use for this is shared between Starlink and Dragon. – Matt


Quote from: Nufflee
Hi, thank you so much for organizing this cool AMA and congrats on DM-2!

I have a couple of questions:

1. Are you using Tesla hardware/touchscreens on the Crew Dragon?
2. There were rumors about Crew Dragon UI running in Chromium (wrapped in Qt), is that true? If so, why did you go with web tech instead of straight up native/Qt UI?
3. What kind of CPUs does Crew Dragon run in comparison to regular desktop CPUs? I know that there are multiple CPUs for redundancy but how would one of those units compare to, let's say, a desktop i9 9900k?
4. And most importnatly, do you play KSP?
5. Did you ever consider adding some games to Dragon?

Thank you again and can't wait to see the first operational Crew Dragon mission soon.

EDIT: added 5.

spacexfsw:
1. No, our hardware is not the same as the one Tesla has. - Sofian

2. That's correct, we do use Chromium as the rendering engine for the displays UI. This project started as a simulator prototype to showcase the design vision to NASA. We then attempted to run it on a flight hardware and with modifications it worked pretty well. We gained more confidence in that stack as we developed the prototype and we then designed the Flight Software around it with that in mind. We liked all the moderns features that comes in with browsers out of the box, we also liked having access to talent that is already trained in that stack. Perhaps we are not afraid of doing things slightly differently here in SpaceX. We like taking a first-principles approach to problem solving, as opposed to just relying upon industry standards. - Sofian

3. We use a dedicated quad core processor, similar in power to a 5 year old phone. - Sofian

4. Of course we play KSP :) - Sofian

5. We don't have any yet but I can see this happening in the future. Vote for your favorite game! - Sofian


Quote from: pinpinbo
* What are your tech stacks? Are they mostly open source or in-house frameworks?
* What's your front-end tech stack for the display?
* What is your Linux distro?
* How do you test your software?
* How do you make the video streams pretty much real-time without lag?
* Do you use any Machine Learning techniques?
* Is the rocket landing automated (without human control)?
* What is your software release cycle look like?
* I am sure there are tons of redundancy strategies you guys implemented. Care to share some?

spacexfsw:
1. We use C & C++ for flight software, HTML, JavaScript & CSS for displays and python for testing. – Sofian

2. We use HTML, JavaScript & CSS. We use Web Components heavily. - Sofian

3. We don't use any off-the-shelf distro – we have our own. - Dietrick

4. Every way we can think of! Unit tests, containerized integrated tests (you can run these on your own machine with a full physics simulation), and full-up "HITL" (hardware-in-the-loop) tests on real flight hardware – again, with full simulation. Mating the flight software up against the simulator is the most powerful tool we have, especially when it's run on the real hardware. We can simulate an entire mission, and even many detailed fault scenarios, with the vehicle hardware just sitting on a table in the lab. - Dietrick

5. On the vehicle (for Bob and Doug's displays), this is pretty easy. For getting it down to ground, we have some great communications links and ground-side networking that allows us to get a lot of data back from the vehicle, very quickly. - Dietrick

6. Dragon and Falcon do not use any ML tech, but that's not to say things like this aren't in SpaceX's future! -Dietrick

7. Yes, the rocket landing is completely automated. - Dietrick

8. On Dragon, we cut releases periodically for use when the vehicle is being integrated and tested and run that release through a series of tests and data review. Similarly, we cut a release when we're reading for flight and run the full suite of cases against specific revisions of our code. - Wendy

9a. On Dragon, we have a lot of redundancy on the hardware side (multiple computers, sensors, actuators, etc) but also employ software to handle responses to faults. NASA requirements are such that our vehicle must be 2 fault tolerant (ie, capable of being safely retreating from the space station and/or returning home safely for crewed vehicles) so we do both analysis and testing to ensure we meet this fault tolerance. – Wendy

9b. On Starlink, we've designed the system so that satellites will quickly passively deorbit due to atmospheric drag in the case of failure (though we fight hard to actively deorbit them if possible). We still have some redundancy inside the vehicle, where it is easy and makes sense, but we primarily trust in having system-level fault tolerance: multiple satellites in view that can serve a user. Launching more satellites is our core competency, so we generally use that kind of fault tolerance wherever we can, and it allows us to provide even better service most of the time when there aren't problems. – Matt


Quote from: Captain_Hadock
@Matt Monson
1. How different is the development experience and the rate of change on production software between the rarely flown Dragon and NASA scrutinized (assuming Dragon V2, less true if V1) and the bi-monthly launched and purely internal starlink batches.
2. How often do you remotely upgrade already flying sats software?
3. Are starlink sats programmed to de-orbit themselves in case they aren't able to communicate back for a given amount of time? (antenna damage on an otherwise healthy sat)

spacexfsw: The tools and concepts are the same, and many of the engineers on the team have worked on both projects (myself included), but being our own customer on Starlink allows us to do things a bit differently. The Starlink hardware is quite flexible – it takes a ton of software to make it work, and small improvements in the software can have a huge impact on the quality of service we provide and the number of people we can serve.

On this kind of project, pace of innovation is everything. We've spent a bunch of time making it easier, safer, and faster to update our constellation. We tend to update the software running on all the Starlink satellites about once a week, with a bunch of smaller test deployments happening as well. By the time we launch a batch of satellites, they're usually on a build that already older than what's on the rest of the constellation! Our ground services are a big part of this story as well – they're a huge part of making the system work, and we tend to deploy them a couple times a week or more.

And about deorbit – the satellites are programmed to go into a high-drag state if they haven't heard from the ground in a long time. This lets atmospheric drag pull them down in a very predictable way. – Matt


Quote from: dfshk
Fantastic work guys! Really love what you've done. A couple of questions:

1. How was the UI designed? Did you follow any specific design principles? How did you take into account the specific conditions of space flight (vibration, helmet limiting visibility,...)
2. Can you give more details on the specific visualisation and interface components? Any cool ideas that got dropped?
3. How did you test the UI and specifically touch interaction with gloves?

spacexfsw: We followed a Human Centered Design process, starting by defining the main guiding principles that closely follow the vision of Dragon being a 21st-century, fully-autonomous spacecraft. One example is identifying minimum crew interaction as a success criteria (i.e. a "don't press the button" paradigm). We believe that presenting information well means minimizing the required interaction it takes to monitor and control the vehicle. Overall, we based the design around a detailed understanding of crew tasks, capabilities, situational awareness needs, and environmental conditions throughout the flight, which allowed us to focus on clarity, simplicity and removing clutter. Our developer/pilot Mike Westenhaver developed a tool that allowed us to map crew tasks to display features and functions, allowing us to fully track requirements and how they are implemented in our software.

As part of our testing and qualification, we do test for vibration and visibility conditions under different seat configurations. The crew did many suited sims interacting with the displays while wearing gloves. - Sofian


Quote from: eth0izzle
Jeff: what does cybersecurity look like for you guys? I imagine you are constantly under attack from state nations/APTs etc to steal confidential IP. Do you have to follow any regulations relating to ITAR in this regard or is that more high level and what you deem proportionate?

In theory, how hard would it be to hack a rocket? I would love for you guys to put up a bounty system similar to Tesla’s and (virtualised) rocket systems.

spacexfsw: We have a lot of the traditional cybersecurity you'd expect, protecting our corporate networks, monitoring for threats inside and outside our networks, phishing campaigns, etc. We also need to analyze potential attacks against our vehicles, especially around the command paths and the pedigree of the code that ends up on the vehicles. We have a dedicated team that identifies how our vehicles and satellites could be hacked so we can eliminate or prohibit these sorts of threats when we're building our vehicles. We also take full advantage of static and dynamic analysis on our code. ITAR mostly limits what we can share - sorry ahead of time if we can't answer all of your questions. We're working to get a bug bounty system up shortly. - Jeff


Quote from: Shanduur
1. As far as we know now, your rockets runs on Linux - but which “mainstream” distribution is closest to your kernel?
2. Are there any fancy changes you did, about which you can tell us more?
3. What CPU architecture are you using? ARM, MIPS or something else?

spacexfsw: Yes, we run Linux, with the PREEMPT_RT patch applied in order to get better real-time performance. We don't use any third-party distribution, but maintain our own copy of the kernel and associated tools. We have made small changes to the kernel over the years, although it is mostly unmodified. The only exception to that is the addition of several custom drivers to interface with our hardware. We use a variety of hardware architectures. I can't go into much detail other than to say it is a distributed system made up of many individual computers. – Josh

For some level of scope on Starlink, each launch of 60 satellites contains more than 4,000 Linux computers. The constellation has more than 30,000 Linux nodes (and more than 6,000 microcontrollers) in space right now. And because we share a lot of our Linux platform infrastructure with Falcon and Dragon, they get the benefit of our more than 180 vehicle-years of on-orbit test time. – Matt


Quote from: MajorRocketScience
What is the single craziest/most impossible thing management (aka Elon) has asked you to do?

spacexfsw: I recall for F9-14 I was in Elon's cube telling him the news that there was no way we could get all of the new S1 landing code done in time for the upcoming launch in 2 weeks. After some thought, he looked over to Lars Blackmore who was there with us and asked if we implement the code, what was our probability of landing. Lars said around 90%. Paraphrasing, Elon looked at us and basically said "can you give me 50%". I said in 2 weeks we can definitely write enough of the logic to get to a 50% probability of landing! We didn't land F9-14 (you can see it on our blooper reel) but we learned a LOT from it, and it was instrumental in eventually landing F9-21. A critical part of our success is our willingness to fail in ways that won't compromise the mission, as long as we are constantly learning from our failures. - Jeff


Quote from: MohanBhargava
How are Doug and Bob to work with? Did they ever make any particular suggestion which spiralled into a major change in Crew Dragon over time?

spacexfsw: Bob & Doug have been working closely with the SpaceX team since the start of the program. They have spent a lot of time in Hawthorne with the teams designing the vehicle. They brought a wealth of experience that spans multiple shuttle flights and they were generous in sharing it. That said, and to their credit, they came in with a clean slate and with the will to accept that many things are done differently in this vehicle. We all see them now in their fancy space suits or doing flips in space, but those guys put a ton of hours flying in at Hawthorne, spending time away from their family, training while providing feedback all with a smile and without a complain. Their work ethic is truly inspirational and that's what makes them do the things they do.

We can not wait for the debrief in Hawthorne when they get back--I'm sure they will have plenty of feedback for us. Especially Bob. He always does :)

--Sofian


Quote from: Nehkara
What are the strangest bugs that you ran into while developing and testing the software for Crew Dragon?

spacexfsw: I can't go into too much detail on specific problems, but kernel bugs are definitely the most "fun" and memorable. Most of our control software is single-threaded to avoid the non-determinism that synchronization issues can introduce, but there are of course a lot of things going on in the OS at any given time. We've gone to a lot of effort to turn Linux into a dependable platform for real-time control that has a much higher degree of determinism than you'd see in your desktop OS. As mentioned elsewhere, we use the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch, which is a huge help. But even still, in earlier development, we'd sometimes catch the system not performing as real-time as we'd like it to, and digging into those problems is always an adventure. - Dietrick


Quote from: Sea_Outside
In your opinion, what is the coolest thing Dragon can do with the software inside of it?

spacexfsw: Dragon can do so many cool things, it's hard to pick any one. But I think our last two flights have really demonstrated how versatile the vehicle is: it can manage a complicated, delicate, zero-G rendezvous with the ISS, and it can also fly itself to safety in a supersonic, many-G abort in the thickest parts of the atmosphere. - Dietrick

Although we hope it's never used with a crew on-board, I think the launch escape system is one of the coolest parts of Dragon. I remember when I watched the pad abort test live in Cape Canaveral I was pretty shocked by how fast the vehicle leapt off the pad. (youtu.be/1_FXVjf46T8) It was equally amazing to see in the in-flight-abort test. Dragon separated smoothly from F9, opening up a large separation distance, while F9 exploded underneath it. It looked like a sci-fi movie, except it was real! (youtu.be/mhrkdHshb3E?t=1167) - Josh


Quote from: _pechora_
First of all, Congratulations!

1. Where can I find the code/pseudocode for the G-FOLD algorithm (Falcon-9's landing algorithm)? I tried going through Lars Blackmore's original paper but as a Computer Science major student, some terminologies just went over my head.

2. I know SpaceX mostly uses standard off-the-shelf CPUs for its flight systems with modified Linux distro. Is the redundant computing managed by the Linux kernel itself or by the C++ application running in the Linux environment? If possible, can you explain the practices involved in implementing hardware-level Lockstep computing?

Congratulations once again and thank you for making Space Exploration cool again!!

spacexfsw: Unfortunately I can't go into much detail on the F9 landing algorithms. Linux is only used to run our applications and interface with hardware. All of the fault management and computing redundancy is handled at the application layer in custom software that we've developed. Time synchronization uses a combination of hardware and software features, some industry-standard and some in-house. – Josh


Quote from: Tchalla_
First and foremost, congratulations on a successful mission. Despite the troubled times, we were honored to witness such a great achievement.

I have to say that Falcon 9 has one pretty interface, and as UI engineer myself self I have many questions about it, allow me to minify them as much as possible.

In previous AMA, there was mention of Javascript and LESS as some of the tools used by your team, and I am very interested in the application of web technologies in SpaceX.

* What are some use cases of Javascript and LESS?
* How does the UI development process look like, and how is the UI tested?
* What open-source libraries does SpaceX team use if any?
* At what level and which web technologies do you use other than ones mentioned above?
* What code editors do you use?
* What is the longest method name you have in your codebase?

spacexfsw: The Crew Displays onboard Dragon runs Chromium with HTML, Javascript & CSS. We don't use LESS. - Sofian

We follow an agile process, we have high bar for unit test coverage and we have integration tests that runs with and without flight hardware. We also take a lot of pride in manually verifying and documenting our new features to make sure they work as intended and we have no regression. - Sofian

We use Web Components extensively. - Sofian

We use a reactive programming library that we developed in house. - Sofian

Different team members uses different editors, I use VSCode but I might be just a little bit biased :) - Sofian

I will have to get back but overall code is our craft here and we make sure it's clean and tidy. I wouldn't expect something too outrageous. Fair warning, we have linters on everything. - Sofian


Quote from: DUKE546
I am a software engineer and my wife won’t let me apply to work at SpaceX because she said she’ll never see me again, is she right to make that assumption? Or can you actually have a work life balance?

spacexfsw: You can definitely have a good work/life balance at SpaceX. SpaceX is definitely not a 9 to 5, and we have times where evenings and weekends are required to support the mission, as we had in the lead-up to Demo-2 and in our aggressive Starship campaign in South Texas (amongst the many other efforts we've got going). Our folks are definitely able to balance work and family life - Josh and Wendy just had babies! Not together :) It's definitely something my team and I have to focus on a lot because we're a small (but growing) team and we have some massive goals ahead of us that we have to accomplish. - Jeff


Quote from: xXAndrew28Xx
What are some of the most interesting edge cases that you have had to take into account when writing the software for Crew Dragon?

spacexfsw: This one's hard to answer without going into too much detail, but anything having to do with rebooting one of our computers in flight is definitely an interesting case. Reboots are completely expected and supported (due to radiation concerns), but they are one of the more interesting scenarios we have to design for. - Dietrick

Some of the more interesting system cases too are faults or failures that require responses in multiple subsystems, spanning computing, rf communications, life support and propulsion. A great example of this is handling a launch escape or a cabin fire – the vehicle goes through a lot of reconfiguration very quickly, which requires many of our code components to coordinate. - Wendy


Quote from: lukewalpole
Congratulations on the successful launch!

Could you possibly tell us about the previous jobs/projects/skills that you have worked on that helped get you the job at SpaceX and anything you think it important to work on when landing your first job at a tech company?

Thanks!

spacexfsw: Our team hails from all backgrounds (seriously!) but we have noticed particularly good crossover between video game development and what we do. There are a lot of similar math-heavy and performance-centric problems in the two spaces. But that's by no means a requirement – I've never professionally built games, for example.

For getting your first (or any) software engineering job, two big things to focus on are: (a) your algorithms and data structures, and (b) understanding how a computer works at the lowest levels. Even if you're not regularly mucking around in device drivers, the network stack, and assembly, understanding how it all fits together will enable you to pick apart any problem you come across. - Dietrick


Quote from: cmonachan
Did you get any push-back from NASA on using a modern software interface instead of lots of physical buttons, etc.?

spacexfsw: You can probably see from the the images of Bob and Doug in the cockpit that we do have physical buttons for all of the emergency commands such as breaking out from an approach to station or commanding an emergency deorbit. Also, we have physical Execute and Cancel buttons on the control panel for most commands that you can initiate from the displays. In the end we were able to meet all NASA requirements for touch feedback, reliability, etc. and we're all really pleased we were able to bring this kind of modern interface to our very modern spaceship. - Jeff


Quote from: sudoHack
Hey guys! Huge fan of everything being done at SpaceX. Congratulations on DM-2!

I’m part of the rocketry team at my university and I work on avionics. As such, I was wondering what skills/tools i could teach myself if i wanted to work with avionics in the future? Specifically, could you talk us through what goes on behind the scenes with regards to the onboard computers, programming/software wise?

Thank you for doing this AMA!

spacexfsw: Being part of a project team at university is a great place to learn! I worked on a satellite team while in college (CUSat at Cornell) and it taught me a lot about hardware design, integrating software, and developing a concept of operations for a mission. The best tools are an eagerness to learn and willingness to get your hands dirty with learning. Side projects are also a great way to do this, and something we definitely take into account when looking at resumes for hiring! - Wendy


Quote from: km3k
I've seen articles mention SpaceX using Linux. What systems use it? What steps do you take to ensure real-time operation and how deterministic are the systems? Kernel modifications like CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT?

spacexfsw: All of our on-board computers either run Linux (with the PREEMPT_RT patch) or are microcontrollers that run bare-metal code. For applications running on Linux we are careful to set up the process and kernel thread priorities correctly to avoid priority inversions. We also generally write our code in a way that maximizes determinism, such as avoiding memory allocation at runtime or unbounded loops. Finally, we have telemetry which indicates the performance of all our processes to ensure that they always meet their deadlines across all phases of flight, even in the presence of unexpected or excess inputs. – Josh


Quote from: SpaceEnthusiast
As a software developer working on non-critical systems at a company, I feel some anxiety related to code and bugs. I know you must have plenty of testing and redundancy, but how much anxiety do you all feel when it comes to all the systems?

spacexfsw: I know I feel personally a huge sense of responsibility to my colleagues, the company, the mission, and the crew to get our software right. The software controls almost every aspect of the vehicle, from thruster firings to oxygen injections, so a lot of harm can come if we do it wrong. A phrase we like to say in SpaceX is that "only the paranoid survive." We think constantly about what can go wrong and make sure we address any plausible failure scenario. However, I wouldn't say I ever feel anxiety about this responsibility because a key aspect of our process is that we always have at least one partner, often more, in everything we do. We are constantly reviewing, questioning, and double-checking each other's work. That doesn't relieve us of personal responsibility, but it means we are never alone and can always count on help from others. - Josh


Quote from: lkk270
Hi guys. Thanks for doing this. What language(s) are most used in creating the various flight software for Dragon & F9? Is it mainly C++?

spacexfsw: We use C++ for all vehicle control systems, Python for tools, testing and automation, and Javascript/HTML/CSS for our displays. The current ground displays you see in mission control for Falcon and Dragon are based on LabVIEW, but our Crew displays and future ground displays for Starship are based on web stack. Our flight systems use a custom Linux kernel with the PREEMPT_RT patch. - Jeff


Quote from: przsd160
Congrats on DM-2!

1. (How) did you modify the Linux kernel in order to better suit your needs?
2. How is radiation/fault tolerance implemented using ordinary non hardened CPUs?
3. Which x86 processors are you using in Dragon (/Falcon)?

spacexfsw: We use the PREEMPT_RT patch for Linux, but otherwise have not modified it much besides adding some custom drivers. We handle radiation fault tolerance by having multiple computers running simultaneously and voting on their outputs. If one of the redundant computers fails due to radiation, the system is generally unaffected. The faulted computer can be rebooted and reincorporated into the system once it recovers, which restores the original fault tolerance. – Josh


Quote from: wizang
How much custom development is done for a mission vs code that is more or less static for every flight. I guess I'm wondering for example are the orbital dynamics purely input/configuration vs custom software that must be written each time.

spacexfsw: For Dragon missions, we'll always have unique configuration for day of launch guidance and navigation parameters. These are handled in software configuration though, so doesn't require much software involvement and the various responsible engineers commit the changes themselves. Outside of that, it mostly depends on if a particular mission has new requirements (for example, new capabilities we're introducing by internal or NASA request) or if we're taking hardware upgrades. - Wendy


Quote from: rootcage
Thanks for doing this guys! I don't think most software engineers get to work on space flight. What are the unique software engineering challenges found in working in this space?

spacexfsw: First thing that jumps to mind is how uniquely unforgiving our production environment can be. I've worked at some places with multi-year waterfall cycles, and some others with weekly releases and on-demand ("oops, I broke it!") hotfixes. SpaceX is neither of those. Here, there is necessarily a focus on writing software that will work correctly the first time it goes to space. This means pursuing simple and robust designs wherever possible, and lots and lots of testing and simulation. - Dietrick


Quote from: Skywalker1002
What was your favourite moment at spacex?

spacexfsw: The first time we launched 60 satellites on Falcon. We'd designed the all-at-once deployment mechanism, but it's hard to model, and we couldn't really be 100% sure it would work right. I remember sitting there, with Falcon lifting off the pad, thinking: Ok. In an hour we're either going to be idiots for trying a thing that obviously never could have worked, or geniuses for doing the thing that's obviously the right way to deploy lots of satellites. Luckily it went well . -- Matt

Putting on a safety harness and climbing on to the top deck of Grasshopper to do some diagnostics on some avionics. Most hands-on debugging I have ever done. - Josh


Quote from: syedubaid086
what control system algorithm you guys use for rectifying/validating sensor data? heard about kalman filter being used on Apollo project back in 1960s. anything new or kalman's still the best.

thanks for this opportunity.

spacexfsw: Yes we use Kalman filters for some applications. We also take much simpler approaches for many sensors, such as basic sanity checks or low-pass filtering. In general our approach to sensor error handling is to have multiple redundant sensors and combine their input in a fault-tolerant way such that bad sensors cannot result in hazardous vehicle behavior. - Josh


Quote from: driveawayfromall
How do you test your code against all the faults that could occur in-flight? Do you run simulated missions to test the code in an end-to-end way or do you rely on individually testing modules for robustness, or some combination of that?

spacexfsw: We do both! On Dragon, we run through any kind of failure that impacts safety critical software on the vehicle. We use a combination of unit tests, component level tests to ensure single and double faults cause the vehicle to react in the way we design for. We also run simulated missions cases for both nominal cases including going through the full nominal mission profile, and including faults in these cases to ensure any cross-system dependencies are well understood. We also run these tests continuously through our CI system and run automated data checks to ensure there's no unexpected behavior. - Wendy


Quote from: night0x63
What operating system does crew dragon use for the touch screens? Languages?

What about the rest of the rocket? Languages?

I assume for both it is probably c.

Have you read NASA's power of ten? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Developing_Safety-Critical_Code#:~:text=The%20Power%20of%2010%20Rules,to%20review%20or%20statically%20analyze.

If yes do you follow all of them? If you don't follow. Why not?

spacexfsw: Re: Power of 10: Yes, and we apply many of those principles to our code, like avoiding heap allocation at runtime. Others, like "restrict functions to a single printed page" are pretty dated and we generally avoid printing our code :) - Jeff


Quote from: tarruma87
How was the software critiqued between the day the weather prevented the launch (27th) and the day of launch (30th) ?

Did you do or consider doing any new deployments? How many days typically before launch is your production code considered "frozen"?

spacexfsw: The launch that was not to be (the 27th) was a great opportunity for another full-up test of everything until nearly T-0. We'd done a similar thing the previous weekend, but it's always great to have more data. We spent the intervening few days checking and rechecking what we learned from the 27th, but we ultimately didn't change anything. We started aggressively stabilizing the code around the beginning of the year, and it's been more or less "locked down" for the past several months. - Dietrick


Quote from: Tengo10
Hi, congrats on all you have archived so far.

* How much data is generated during a typical launch? How much more was it for DM-2?
* Will any of this data be available at one point (maybe live)?
* Have you seen some of the Starlink simulations(Youtube) and how do they compare?
* Has there been any software development for Starship/Superheavy already?
Thanks for answering our questions!

spacexfsw: There's a ton of good Starlink simulations and videos out there (and the team loves seeing what people have been able to come up with). The one you linked is great! One of my other favorites is this one (it's simple, but mesmerizing): www.youtube.com/watch?v=857UM4ErX9A – Matt


Quote from: Nerdyasian
Any fun stories from testing UI prototypes?

spacexfsw: To test the manual piloting controls we had the Demo-2 crew (Bob & Doug) and the Crew-1 crew (Mike & Victor) in Hawthorne for a week long Hackathon (credit to Jeff Dexter for the idea). The crew flew sims during the day, we collected feedback before they left and we had builds ready for them the next morning. While we didn't develop complete features overnight, that tight loop allowed us to iterate quickly and have a smooth flying vehicle by the end of that week. Michael Hopkins won the prize for finding the best bug during that Hackathon. It was an amazing week to see crews all over our simulators docking and flying Dragon. - Sofian


Quote from: Leonard_S
How important is it to have people with different educational backgrounds on your team? I am sure there are specialists in mathematics, physics, computer science and all sorts of engineering at spacex and specifically in your group. How much do you learn from each other and could you give an example of where different competencies worked together to make the rocket launch possible?

Also thanks for taking your time for this!

spacexfsw: Having different people with different backgrounds (education, experience, and culturally) is a big plus on the team. Not much of the team, for example, comes from an aerospace background. Different points of view help us see problems from different angles, and that quite often helps us see solutions we wouldn't have otherwise seen.

Starlink specifically has a huge breadth of problems to go solve. We have vehicles and control problems, but we're also designing hardware and software that people will interact with. We need different perspectives to realize what will be confusing vs. intuitive for customers coming with different context.

When interviewing people, we're really looking for a couple things: talent (potential) and the right attitude (desire for self improvement, serving the team over being selfish). These are more important than specific experience, and we expect to be investing in people to help them grow. - Matt


Quote from: -JG-77-
Where is the bathroom on the crew dragon?

spacexfsw: It's between the forward hatch and the side hatch, on the "ceiling". You probably only want to use it in zero G! - Dietrick

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Vettedrmr on 06/07/2020 09:38 pm
Full Q&A copied from reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/):

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!  Just spent about an hour reading and going back through memory lane from my career doing flight control system software development.  Most of the languages I used are dead, buried, and petrified, except for C/C++ and assembly language.  I loved the comment about the processors used: "We use a dedicated quad core processor, similar in power to a 5 year old phone."  So true!!!!

Thanks again, and have a good one,
Mike
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 06/08/2020 04:00 am
We missed this when it came out: Aviationweek's Irene Klotz interviewed both Elon and Gwynne before DM-2

Elon interview (https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/podcast-interview-spacexs-elon-musk): direct download (http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/3/7/8/378198ce137fec7f/20200526-CHECK6.mp3?c_id=73922204&cs_id=73922204&destination_id=188776&expiration=1590512052&hwt=ad76f03c410e32ff15af9b64a5a26a0c), automated transcript (https://www.temi.com/editor/t/kek9LVQfX93kH6Hm-TylIpKFtPQzrFw2IPxGo_aaG3lPoYdKFalfhh3iwRAdnlp8ifVREdVaLJ0L3ogOpgI2lNB6WyY?loadFrom=DeliveryEmail) provided by reddit user fluidmechanicsdoubts and matroosoft

This is where Elon said refurbishment of Falcon 9 booster only cost a million dollars or so and marginal cost of launch is $15M, also affordable Starlink user terminal is the biggest challenge that will take a few years to solve.



Gwynne interview (https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/podcast-spacex-coo-prospects-starship-launcher): direct download (http://traffic.libsyn.com/aviationweek/20200527-CHECK6.mp3?dest-id=188776), automated transcript (https://www.temi.com/editor/t/2JzScBQXuSEeS3pU8reC-hFXK8Bsa9CfLyb3WjT_OBhna-zGDTZ3HxtGS9mkAWBiXToa8yw9Zy1F-82l4ZMFL82pVi0?loadFrom=DeliveryEmail) provided by reddit user fluidmechanicsdoubts

Summary provided by reddit user Straumli_Blight:

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Some notes from the interview:

* Movie mission to the ISS likely to occur soon after PCM-2.
* Starship missions may have SpaceX astronauts due to extra space but unlikely for Crew Dragon.
* 4 private crewed missions currently planned, SpaceX are conservative on potential revenue.
* Lunar Starship has 6-7 raptors, due to design still evolving.
* Employee count is ~7600, probably wont grow much bigger.
* ~900 people hired at Boca Chica in past 6 months.
* Public beta of Starlink probably after the 14th launch to ensure sufficient bandwith.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 06/09/2020 01:25 pm
Thank you!  I'd heard people referring to these interviews, but I couldn't find them either via Aviation Week's website (multiple searches for SpaceX) nor Irene's Twitter feed.  Attn both: do better in promoting your good work.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: r8ix on 06/09/2020 07:37 pm
Thank you!  I'd heard people referring to these interviews, but I couldn't find them either via Aviation Week's website (multiple searches for SpaceX) nor Irene's Twitter feed.  Attn both: do better in promoting your good work.

They’re easy to find in Apple’s Podcast app, and I’m sure in other podcast repositories, if you search for Aviation Week Check 6 podcast.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/11/2020 08:13 pm
https://youtu.be/KEnz8V97Qck

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On April 30, three US companies were selected to design and develop human landing systems for NASA’s Artemis program aiming to allow sustainable moon exploration as early as 2024. The three prime contractors – Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX – each have strikingly different architectures for their proposals. In this AAS Future in Space Hangout, our host, Tony Darnell, will discuss the various approaches with the lead from each contractor, digging in to find out why they went the way they did, why they think theirs is the best, and more. Join us!

Participants
·         Tony Darnell, host and moderator
·         John Couluris, HLS Program Manager, Blue Origin
·         Nick Cummings, Director of Advanced Development for Civil Space, SpaceX
·         Robert Wright, Deputy Division Manager, Space Systems, Dynetics

This American Astronautical Society “Future in Space” online session is available for FREE and on-line participants have the ability to submit questions to the speakers. This session will set the stage for future, more detailed discussions of the science needs, programs, risks, and challenges in missions to support the human lunar exploration.

Consider becoming a member of the American Astronautical Society:
https://astronautical.org/join

 #LiveAstronomy #DeepAstronomy #AmericanAstronomicalSociety

Edit to add: some SpaceX remarks on lunar HLS (Starship) contract can be found here (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=50806.msg2095167#msg2095167).
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: snotis on 06/30/2020 09:55 pm
#SATCON1:

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1277992421364768773 (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1277992421364768773)

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talk by Mike Sholl from SpaceX (optics expert formerly involved in SNAP and WFIRST).  Visorsat is showing good preliminary results. Plan now is to go with visors rather than Darksat-style coatings.

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1277992987708977154 (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1277992987708977154)

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Sholl: Changes to attitude control strategy and solar array orientation already showing  brightness reduction in both early orbit and operational phases.

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1278027136721399808 (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1278027136721399808)

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Jared Greene (SpaceX) we have done 4 or 5 experimental [Starlinks] with smaller component-level changes [not just Darksat and Visorsat] to understand mitigations. Collaboration with Rubin Obs folks very helpful in directing strategy

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1278033059850399745 (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1278033059850399745)

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the issue with Darksat is the antennas absorb more Earth heat, so there's a thermal problem [hence visors are better]

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1278034067422941185 (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1278034067422941185)

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all future sats launched (modulo maybe occasional experiment) will have visors
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: snotis on 06/30/2020 09:56 pm
More #SATCON1:

https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1277985178535620608 (https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1277985178535620608)

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Mike Sholl from SpaceX, discussing Starlink optical signature characterization. He is discussing how they have done several mitigations including an "operational roll" during the orbit raise phase as well as DarkSat's specular black paint.

https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1277988068306239488 (https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1277988068306239488)

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The next level mitigation is called VisorSat, just launched, which has a solar shade to help with both brightness and keeping satellites cool. Sholl says SpaceX is committed to reducing satellite optical signatures to do as little harm to astronomy as possible.

https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1278025365579894784 (https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1278025365579894784)

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...Jared Greene from SpaceX. He says the revenue from Starlink is intended to fund tech to make humanity interplanetary. They want to coexist with astronomy because he feels there is a common goal of exploring space.

https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1278029716537044992 (https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1278029716537044992)

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Greene from SpaceX ends by saying he is excited about being able to set an industry standard for collaborating with astronomers as well as sharing their technical brightness mitigations with other operators.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: snotis on 06/30/2020 10:00 pm
https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1277702721299083264 (https://twitter.com/merrdiff/status/1277702721299083264)

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Here are the slides I presented at #SATCON1 today. I used a @VRubinObs precursor telescope to measure Starlink
brightnesses, and I shared some key considerations about megaconstellations and astronomy, based largely on the
conclusions in Tyson et al. 2020. http://staff.washington.edu/mrawls/Satcon-DECam-mrawls.pdf (http://staff.washington.edu/mrawls/Satcon-DECam-mrawls.pdf)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Alvian@IDN on 07/02/2020 02:58 am
ASCEND on 16-18 Nov (online). Featuring Paul Wooster (Moon & Mars dev) & Jonathan Hofeller (Starlink VP)

https://www.ascend.events/experience/speakers/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 07/12/2020 03:11 pm
In the last couple days, someone mentioned in another NSF thread that there was a recent talk by Tom Mueller, perhaps just a Q&A session online.  I can't find the mention here to quote it :/  I did check this thread here and there's nothing noted from him in the past month.  Anyone know of it?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 07/12/2020 03:17 pm
In the last couple days, someone mentioned in another NSF thread that there was a recent talk by Tom Mueller, perhaps just a Q&A session online.  I can't find the mention here to quote it :/  I did check this thread here and there's nothing noted from him in the past month.  Anyone know of it?

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41014.msg2099128#msg2099128
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 07/15/2020 03:53 am
In the last couple days, someone mentioned in another NSF thread that there was a recent talk by Tom Mueller, perhaps just a Q&A session online.  I can't find the mention here to quote it :/  I did check this thread here and there's nothing noted from him in the past month.  Anyone know of it?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41014.msg2099128#msg2099128

Thanks!  Odd that it's an unlisted video.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Alvian@IDN on 08/27/2020 10:19 pm
https://twitter.com/ExploreMars/status/1298984641798406146?s=19

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BREAKING: .@elonmusk will join Explore Mars' .@TheeSpaceDude for a conversation & Q&A about .@SpaceX’s plans to get #HumansToMars!

Join us on August 31st at 4:30 pm Eastern for this exclusive interview with #Starship updates and more! https://t.co/hOxiMUOfBw
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/11/2020 07:17 pm
https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1304491764133359626

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The Explorer's Club announced a cool event for next Monday, 7pm ET, when Richard Garriott will interview Paul Wooster (SpaceX's principal Mars engineer) about making life multi-planetary. It will be live-streamed on the organization's web site.

explorers.org

Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1304493736311885824
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/15/2020 12:16 am
 :(

https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/1305642507355729921

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We apologize but due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to cancel tonight's lecture, "SpaceX - Making Life Multiplanetary". We hope to have the event rescheduled in the future, and will update everyone via email and on our social media channels as information becomes available.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eric Hedman on 09/22/2020 02:40 am
While not directly tied to SpaceX, tomorrow Elon Musk and Tesla are doing an event that they call Battery Day.  Musk has called what he is going to announce as "Mind-Blowing", and "Very Insane."  Any great battery advancement probably has some applications to space.

https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/tesla-battery-day-hype-preview/ (https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/tesla-battery-day-hype-preview/)
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34098933/watch-tesla-battery-day-sept-22/ (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34098933/watch-tesla-battery-day-sept-22/)

Live stream at: https://www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com//www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AndyH on 09/22/2020 10:57 pm
While not directly tied to SpaceX, tomorrow Elon Musk and Tesla are doing an event that they call Battery Day.  Musk has called what he is going to announce as "Mind-Blowing", and "Very Insane."  Any great battery advancement probably has some applications to space.

https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/tesla-battery-day-hype-preview/ (https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/tesla-battery-day-hype-preview/)
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34098933/watch-tesla-battery-day-sept-22/ (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34098933/watch-tesla-battery-day-sept-22/)

Live stream at: https://www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com//www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting)
Excellent battery info.  I'm wondering now about 'Terafactory Mars'.  Some rocket questions as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds)

ETA...Index...
Start of Battery Day segment:  https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=5989 (https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=5989)

"We have a plan to halve the cost [of batteries] per KWh."  https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=6543 (https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=6543)
  Via innovating cell design, cell factory, anode materials, cathode materials, and cell vehicle integration
   Goal is to turn 'Gigafactories' into 'Terafactories' to speed the transition to renewables and to make electrification accessible to all.

Boca Chica Wind/LOX:  https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=10414 (https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=10414)
Musk:  "Over time we'll see all modes of transport, with the ironic exception of rockets, transition to sustainability; to electric, basically.  On the rocket front, what we're planning to do is, about 80% of Starship is liquid oxygen and we're actually already running a power line to be able to use wind power to create the liquid oxygen.  We're making some decent progress on sustainability on the rocket front but there's just no way to have an electric rocket and it's important for the future of life and consciousness that we become a multi-planet species so, we've gotta keep doing that."

Regarding lithium and nickel industries and possible price spikes:  https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=10460 (https://youtu.be/l6T9xIeZTds?t=10460)
   Likely applies to both expanding the use of nickel in batteries but also in the demand for stainless steel for Starship.

edit1: added video clips and links
edit2: fixed punny size labels
   


Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: niwax on 09/22/2020 11:26 pm
While not directly tied to SpaceX, tomorrow Elon Musk and Tesla are doing an event that they call Battery Day.  Musk has called what he is going to announce as "Mind-Blowing", and "Very Insane."  Any great battery advancement probably has some applications to space.

https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/tesla-battery-day-hype-preview/ (https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/tesla-battery-day-hype-preview/)
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34098933/watch-tesla-battery-day-sept-22/ (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34098933/watch-tesla-battery-day-sept-22/)

Live stream at: https://www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com//www.tesla.com/2020shareholdermeeting)

He mentioned they're connecting to wind power to make LOX for Starship, with the intention of going fully renewable later.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eric Hedman on 09/23/2020 01:48 am
Explanation of Battery Day announcements:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450840/tesla-battery-day-production-elon-musk-tabless-range-cathode-cobalt-plaid (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450840/tesla-battery-day-production-elon-musk-tabless-range-cathode-cobalt-plaid)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 09/24/2020 11:50 pm
Terrafactory

...

Terrafactories

That should be "Terafactory," after the SI prefix tera- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera-) (literally "monster factory").
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AndyH on 09/25/2020 03:08 am
Terrafactory

...

Terrafactories

That should be "Terafactory," after the SI prefix tera- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera-) (literally "monster factory").
They are monster factories on Earth, so there's that. ;)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 10/10/2020 11:28 am
Steve Jurvetson's Keynote at Satellite Innovation 2020: https://vimeo.com/465512979/ed18ea2087

Mostly about SpaceX, also a small part about Planet, not much news but interesting nevertheless.

[zubenelgenubi re: Vimeo link: Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here.]

*https://vimeo.com/465512979/ed18ea2087
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/15/2020 05:29 pm
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Breaking News: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to Speak Virtually at 2020 Mars Society Convention
October 15, 2020

There’s no better way to kick off Day 1 of the 2020 International Mars Society Convention than with a big announcement: SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk will be joining us virtually tomorrow (Friday, October 16th) at 4:00 pm PST (7:00 pm EST) to provide our global audience with a special update about SpaceX and its plans for the Moon and Mars.

As a world leader in advocating for humanity to become a multi-planetary species, Mr. Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in 2002 with the goal of creating affordable (reusable) launch vehicles and spacecraft to help open up exploration and settlement of the solar system, including the planet Mars.   

To date, SpaceX achievements include the first privately funded liquid propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1, 2008), the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (Dragon, 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft to the ISS (Dragon, 2012), the first vertical take-off and vertical propulsive landing of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9, 2015) and the first private company to send astronauts to orbit and to the ISS (Crew Dragon Demo-2 Mission, 2020).

SpaceX has also begun developing Starship, a fully-reusable, two-stage-to-orbit, super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft, capable of traveling to both the Moon and Mars.

Mr. Musk is also actively working to revolutionize ground transportation on Earth through the design and production of electric cars at Tesla and the streamlining of underground tunnels and infrastructure for use by cars and other vehicles by The Boring Company.

Online registration for the International Mars Society Convention is free of charge, although attendees are kindly asked to consider supporting the organization and its programs by making a $50 contribution. For more details about the four-day virtual conference, including how to sign up online, please visit our web site at: https://www.marssociety.org.

Join us virtually for the 2020 International Mars Society Convention, with 150 speakers (now 151!) and 5,400 people registered (so far)! Sign up today!

https://www.marssociety.org/news/2020/10/15/breaking-news-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-to-speak-virtually-at-2020-mars-society-convention/

Edit to add:

New thread started just for this talk: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52105.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Oggust on 10/16/2020 02:21 pm
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Breaking News: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to Speak Virtually at 2020 Mars Society Convention
October 15, 2020

Note: The page says the talk is now one hour earlier than that ("3:00 pm PDT (6:00 pm EDT)"

New thread started just for this talk: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52105.0

That thread is locked, so I couldn't send this there.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Frogstar_Robot on 10/16/2020 05:17 pm
Will the Elon talk be streamed separately on youtube or elsewhere?

I signed up for the Mars Society Virtual Convention anyway, Mike Griffin is making some interesting comments :)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rakaydos on 10/16/2020 09:05 pm
Will the Elon talk be streamed separately on youtube or elsewhere?

I signed up for the Mars Society Virtual Convention anyway, Mike Griffin is making some interesting comments :)
I signed up, I'm not sure how to actually watch, though.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: aameise9 on 10/16/2020 09:15 pm
I'm able to watch other zoom presentations on convention.marssociety.org.  Currently there are several parallel talks.  I'm not sure whether Elon's presentation will work the same way. 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rakaydos on 10/16/2020 09:21 pm
zoom, ok... what's the meeting ID? I'm not seeing how to connect with the conference.

(I just tried convention.marssociety.org on zoom as you said, didnt work)

EDIT: got a DM from an organizer, thanks for the help.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 10/16/2020 09:28 pm
C|NET has it...

32 minutes as of my post, and live chat is enabled for those so inclined.

https://youtu.be/Opnk-cPOM50
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: MikeAtkinson on 10/16/2020 09:33 pm
zoom, ok... what's the meeting ID? I'm not seeing how to connect with the conference.

(I just tried convention.marssociety.org on zoom as you said, didnt work)

EDIT: got a DM from an organizer, thanks for the help.

Ha! I'm not an organiser, it is just the message from the organizer you get when you register. But easy to miss, as most of it is hidden.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 10/16/2020 09:55 pm
The C|NET livestream is active, at the funky music stage.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Frogstar_Robot on 10/16/2020 09:59 pm
Just spent a few hours watching Mars Society presentations. Really interesting discoveries from SHARAD on water and CO2 ice. A lot of frustration with US government policy. Basically everyone hoping Elon will step in and take us there.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: gongora on 10/16/2020 10:02 pm
There's an official stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Aw6WG4Dww
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Post by: aameise9 on 10/16/2020 10:06 pm
Elon Musk is live answering questions from Robert Zubrin.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/22/2020 06:04 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1319338436801761280

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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, speaking from the company's HQ at the #TIME100Talks, says she believes in the next 10 years "people will be able to travel into space who are not billionaires" and that "people will be able to travel to Mars."

Gwynne’s slot is at about 24:30 into:

https://youtu.be/CogwACFEzFU

Edit to add: Note that the above tweet is the start of a long thread with quotes from the interview

Here’s the rest of the thread:

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Shotwell told : "I remember when I was interviewing with Elon in 2002 and he had such a ambitious goal, it sounded absolutely insane at the time. And now almost 20 years later, it doesn't actually sound that insane - at least not to the insiders, maybe to the public."

Shotwell: "We are not giving up on Earth, when we talk about building capability to move humanity to other planet ... it's actually just giving humanity another shot in case there would be some horrible event on Earth ... a second planet to live."

Shotwell on Starlink: "A low Earth orbiting broadband constellation has never been successful ... Elon is always talking about [how] this business is littered with dead bodies with companies that have not made it."

Shotwell: "The second reason was, once you take people to Mars, they're going to need a capability to communicate. In fact, I think it will be even more critical to have a constellation like Starlink around Mars. And then of course you need to connect the two planets as well."

Shotwell: "Starlink will not be great over cities – you can only put so much capability into a geographic area and cities are well served in general in the United States already by big telecom providers."

Shotwell: Starlink has helped SpaceX "learn our own lessons" when it comes to space debris.

Shotwell: There are "rocket bodies littering the space environment and dead satellites," so "it's quite possible that we could leverage Starship to go to the some of these dead rocket bodies, other people's rockets ... basically go pick up some of this junk in outer space."

Shotwell: "Space tourism is an interesting business area. The market is not there yet and we have never counted on tourism as a market. I do believe that it will be a business."

Shotwell, asked if employees have concerns about Pentagon contracts: "They have expressed some concern about building weapons systems, but we're not doing that. We're providing space transportation capabilities. Even the satellites for missile tracking, we're there to watch."

Shotwell: "Candidly, I'm team USA, and I think a strong military is the greatest way to be able to peacefully negotiate settlements when inevitably that occurs ... I'm deeply grateful for the U.S. military and for the fact that they want to work with us."
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Post by: MikeAtkinson on 12/01/2020 06:52 pm
Live now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=787CmHGyOmE&ab_channel=BusinessInsiderDeutschland

Talks a bit about Mars, hopes for unmanned landing in 2 years, crew with a bit of luck in 4, realistically in 6 years.
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Post by: getitdoneinspace on 01/16/2021 05:13 pm
I know the subject of this thread is "Upcoming Talks" but I wanted to share this interview with Gwynne that occurred back around Thanksgiving that I have not found posted in this forum. As an older guy I really enjoy interviews by younger folks, those with fewer pre-established biases. The whole interview is very good. But I especially enjoyed her answer to the 2nd to the last question since it is spot on for people who have an ambition to grow in their career. Also interesting that she confirmed the intent to first land cargo on the moon with Starship before ever putting humans on Starship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomoD0rYhJ8
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Post by: Eagandale4114 on 01/17/2021 12:36 am
Cup of Joe with Tom Mueller


https://youtu.be/ola8nKa3unI
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Post by: Thanamira on 01/26/2021 01:51 pm
Is there any news on when Musk might do another Starship briefing, ala the "I'm standing next to Mk 1" event?  IIRC, there had been one tentatively scheduled for Nov.
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Post by: gongora on 01/26/2021 01:55 pm
Is there any news on when Musk might do another Starship briefing, ala the "I'm standing next to Mk 1" event?  IIRC, there had been one tentatively scheduled for Nov.

No
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/06/2021 02:48 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1379445203178774534

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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is speaking on a panel at the @SATELLITEDC LEO Digital forum, alongside SES CEO Steve Collar, Viasat $VSAT CEO Mark Dankberg, Hughes President Pradman Kaul, and Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer.
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 04/30/2021 01:26 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1388122062632402952

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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic:

"We had a bunch of customers move out. There was a lot of learning that other companies had to do to figure out how to keep their stuff moving. The supply chain was devastated."

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A Conversation With Gwynne Shotwell, 2020 Satellite Executive of the Year

RACHEL JEWETT

Days before sending the Crew-2 mission to the ISS, Gwynne Shotwell jumps on the phone for an interview with Via Satellite while working at SpaceX’s facility in McGregor, Texas. She speaks openly about the company’s ambitions for Starlink, her interplanetary dreams, and how she sees her role as an industry leader. At one point during the interview, when an engine fires in the background, she doesn’t hold back her amazement.

http://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/may-2021/a-conversation-with-gwynne-shotwell-2020-satellite-executive-of-the-year/
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Post by: AU1.52 on 05/02/2021 04:29 am
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1388122062632402952 (https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1388122062632402952)

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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic:

"We had a bunch of customers move out. There was a lot of learning that other companies had to do to figure out how to keep their stuff moving. The supply chain was devastated."

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A Conversation With Gwynne Shotwell, 2020 Satellite Executive of the Year

RACHEL JEWETT

Days before sending the Crew-2 mission to the ISS, Gwynne Shotwell jumps on the phone for an interview with Via Satellite while working at SpaceX’s facility in McGregor, Texas. She speaks openly about the company’s ambitions for Starlink, her interplanetary dreams, and how she sees her role as an industry leader. At one point during the interview, when an engine fires in the background, she doesn’t hold back her amazement.

http://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/may-2021/a-conversation-with-gwynne-shotwell-2020-satellite-executive-of-the-year/ (http://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/may-2021/a-conversation-with-gwynne-shotwell-2020-satellite-executive-of-the-year/)


Another thing she said that stood out to me about Starship that it was just "Baby steps", which I read as "we only just scratching the surface of what we will do over the next few decades and beyond"!
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/15/2021 01:09 pm
https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1393553249962270721

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Gwynne Shotwell to give commencement address at Northwestern University (my wife’s Alma mater, too).
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Post by: snotis on 05/15/2021 06:38 pm
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We're a few of the people on SpaceX’s software team, and on Saturday, May 15 at 12:00 p.m. PT we’ll be here to answer your questions about some of the fun projects we’ve worked on this past year including:

Designing Starlink’s scalable telemetry system storing millions of points per second
Updating the software on our orbiting Starlink satellites (the largest constellation in space!)
Designing software for the Starlink space lasers terminals for high-speed data transmission
Developing software to support our first all civilian mission (Inspiration4)
Completing our first operational Crew Dragon mission (Crew-1)
Designing the onboard user interfaces for astronauts
Rapid iteration of Starship’s flight software and user interface

We are:

Jarrett Farnitano – I work on Dragon vehicle software including the crew displays
Kristine Huang – I lead application software for Starlink constellation
Jeanette Miranda – I develop firmware for lasercom
Asher Dunn - I lead Starship software
Natalie Morris - I lead software test infrastructure for satellites

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ncj4vz/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ncj4vz/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/)
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Post by: scr00chy on 05/20/2021 11:01 am
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Elon Musk @elonmusk will speak at the Russian three-day forum "New Knowledge", said the first deputy head of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko. The forum started today.
 https://ria.ru/20210520/mask-1733080389.html

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1395302822422450180
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Post by: scr00chy on 06/14/2021 01:13 pm
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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell is speaking at the @nss International Space Development Conference on June 25, as well as SpaceX board member Steve Jurvetson on June 26, with the latter also receiving the NSS Space Pioneer Award. #ISDC2021 https://isdc2021.nss.org/home/schedule/schedule-at-a-glance/

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1404425932589383687
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/14/2021 01:17 pm
According to the schedule at:

https://isdc2021.nss.org/home/schedule/schedule-at-a-glance/

Gwynne is receiving the Wernher von Braun award.
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/14/2021 01:19 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1404428136754917382

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Reminder that Shotwell is also today giving Northwestern's commencement address to the Class of 2021:
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Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/14/2021 04:43 pm
Gwynne’s commencement now live at:

https://www.northwestern.edu/commencement/families-and-guests/2021-webcasts/index.html

Edit to add: thread with points from talk

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1404479120386539521
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/15/2021 05:11 am
https://youtu.be/mVosLGiOqmc?t=141 (https://youtu.be/mVosLGiOqmc?t=141)

This is my first time posting so hopefully I posted correctly :)

At around 2:02 and 2:21 you can see on a board which says STARSHIP ORBITAL FLIGHT what seems to be a countdown of 25 days 7 hours and 30 minutes!!!! Also it shows in green that the center cluster of Super Heavy engines and 2 raptors for Starship have been shipped!!!!!!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 06/17/2021 01:00 am
According to the schedule at:

https://isdc2021.nss.org/home/schedule/schedule-at-a-glance/

Gwynne is receiving the Wernher von Braun award.

Worth adding that the entire three-day ISDC conference (excluding some special event on Sunday) will be streamed for free, including Shotwell's award ceremony :)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/29/2021 03:39 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1409897902382661636

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Elon Musk is speaking virtually at #MWC21 as SpaceX CEO. Livestream: https://www.mobileworldlive.com/

Thread:
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Post by: CorvusCorax on 07/05/2021 12:19 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1409897902382661636

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Elon Musk is speaking virtually at #MWC21 as SpaceX CEO. Livestream: https://www.mobileworldlive.com/

Thread:

recording of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcnVTgrgThE
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: scr00chy on 08/19/2021 11:21 pm
Elon Musk to speak at Code Conference 2021 in late September:

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1428470677166862341
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Norm38 on 08/20/2021 04:56 pm
With respect to Starship full reusability: I don’t know if we will ever get there.

Is that a typo?  How does Starship not get to full reusability?  The system is a failure otherwise, all it's economics depend on rapidly reuseable tankers.

Is she talking about each and every Starship?  Because it's already been discussed that based on fuel alone, early ships to Mars/Luna will NOT be returned.  But that doesn't mean they don't get to full resuability on tankers.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rubicondsrv on 08/20/2021 05:09 pm
With respect to Starship full reusability: I don’t know if we will ever get there.

Is that a typo?  How does Starship not get to full reusability?  The system is a failure otherwise, all it's economics depend on rapidly reuseable tankers.


this is likely referring to the airline levels of maintence and fast turnarounds that are the goal with starship.

some level of reuse is likely, but getting to regular turnarounds without at least a few days of downtime will be harder. 

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 08/20/2021 05:12 pm
Need to get over the chip hump and think they will in October.

What does this mean? Global chip shortage is affecting their ability to ramp up user terminal production?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AU1.52 on 08/20/2021 05:22 pm
Need to get over the chip hump and think they will in October.

What does this mean? Global chip shortage is affecting their ability to ramp up user terminal production?


It is affecting nearly all businesses. Tesla is having to switch to different chips and rewriting software to work on them.


On full reusability - I would not be surprised if the heatshield is the main factor slowing down ship turnaround. Need to invert a tile that is like metal but has the heat qualities of ceramic but not brittle.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cscott on 08/20/2021 05:29 pm
Yeah, I think the devil is in the details of "full" there.  Random things I can think of: do the tiles ablate on each flight and eventually have to be replaced?  Are there wear surfaces inside the raptors that need replacement?  What about crush cores? Or engine heat protection boots? Given the other contents in her talk, perhaps window replacement will be necessary after N flights...

Gwynne is always the realist to Elon's optimist.  She seems all the ways that the engineering cases might not close.  But if so, that would only be motivation for "Starship 2", just as Starship came after Falcon after the reusability case for the second stage didn't close.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Vultur on 08/20/2021 05:32 pm
Need to get over the chip hump and think they will in October.

What does this mean? Global chip shortage is affecting their ability to ramp up user terminal production?

Is it that or the satellites themselves? I'd think terminals wouldn't require standing down from launches... but maybe the 'waiting for new satellites with laser links' is an unrelated thing, not due to the chip issue?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cscott on 08/20/2021 06:09 pm
Could be F9 second stage related, too.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: M.E.T. on 08/21/2021 03:31 am
Tone, body language and context is everything in this kind of conversation.

Was she serious or light hearted? Was it the tail end of a chat about travelling to other star systems (something Gwynne has repeatedly brought into her speeches, by the way).

Was she referring to uncertainties around 1-hour turnaround “fuel and go” Starship operations? Of COURSE the jury is still out on that.

That’s very different from saying one-week or one-month turnarounds of Starship might not be possible.

Was she just being frank, saying that “We might not succeed, but we sure as hell will try everything to get there.” Which is what Elon has said many times as well.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: cscott on 08/21/2021 06:19 am
Cross post for Elon saying the exact same thing:


Not sure why people are surprised by Gwynne's talk, that's just her being cautious and doesn't want to count chickens before they hatch. Elon said something quite similar a month ago:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1417949463591591936

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But, much more important, is that this *design* is capable of full & rapid reusability.

Long way to go from design to making it actually fully & rapidly reusable with high payload, but at least success is *one* of the possible outcomes haha.

In other words, failure is a possible outcome here.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Conexion Espacial on 08/22/2021 10:23 pm
https://twitter.com/conexionspacial/status/1429569793858981891

 (https://twitter.com/conexionspacial/status/1429569793858981891SpaceX)SpaceX presented a timeline of the development of its projects in 2016 during the IAC, I have updated this timeline with everything we have seen until this month and what the company would be planning for the next few years. Looking at an overview of Starship, we see that development would have been delayed by two years, however, that delay is getting shorter and shorter due to all the developments over the past few months.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 08/25/2021 12:38 pm
Gwynne Shotwell at Space Symposium 2021:

https://youtu.be/RNvvYG6a-qo
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 08/25/2021 02:13 pm
Gwynne Shotwell at Space Symposium 2021:

Two subtle things not mentioned elsewhere:

1. She thinks intelligence community embraces commercial more than the rest of the national security space customers (I assume meant USAF)

2. She seems to ask DoD to help with 2 things (she used the word "government", but read in context seems to refer to DoD): First is avoid prescriptive requirements, which is no surprise. The 2nd is "help the rest of the federal government figure out how to regulate at the speed of innovation". She used SpaceX's request to lower Starlink orbit to 550km as an example, seems obvious that she thinks FCC's action in this case is too slow. But one couldn't help but wonder if she has Boca Chica's FAA EA and Starship launch license in mind as well, people seem adamant that DoD wouldn't be able to help here, I thought so too, but maybe we should change our priors...
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 08/25/2021 03:31 pm
Gwynne:

“When responsible operators don’t weaponize licensing, then we can make this work”

Hmm.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 08/25/2021 08:10 pm
Gwynne:

“When responsible operators don’t weaponize licensing, then we can make this work”

Hmm.

Hinting an Old-Space + Old-Comms keiretsu?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 08/26/2021 09:50 pm
A full set of SpaceX speakers in panels at Satellite 2021, assuming that it is not canceled.  It doesn't appear that SpaceX is participating in the launch panel this year.

Gwynne Shotwell
General Session: The Future of Global Satellite Connectivity (https://www.satshow.com/program/?&monthfilter=2021-09&datefilter=2021-09-08#session-a0F3b00001GJ2FeEAL) > 9/8 @ 9:00 am Eastern

Bret Johnsen
Satcom Growth Strategies: The Operators Speak (https://www.satshow.com/program/?monthfilter=2021-09#session-a0F3b00001GIzIlEAL) 9/7 @ 9:30 am Eastern

Jonathan Hofeller
High-Speed Satellite vs. Fiber - Making the Business Case for Customers (https://www.satshow.com/program/?monthfilter=2021-09#session-a0F3b00001GIzJ0EAL) 9/8 @ 2:00 pm Eastern
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 09/30/2021 03:05 am
Elon Musk Code Conference 2021 interview with Kara Swisher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bZg7frOmI

Haven't finished listening to it, but there're some coverage about space in general and SpaceX in particular.

One thing worth mentioning is that Elon confirmed the marginal launch cost (no overhead) for reusable Falcon 9 is $15M.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: StraumliBlight on 10/03/2021 06:19 pm
Jarrod McLachlan (https://2021.satelliteinnovation.com/speakers/jarrod-mclachlan/) (SpaceX Director of Rideshare Sales) will be speaking in the Competitive Advantages of Various Launch Companies (https://2021.satelliteinnovation.com/agenda/) discussion at the Satellite Innovation 2021 conference, on October 6th, 15:45-16:30 PDT.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: soltasto on 10/03/2021 08:49 pm
Jarrod McLachlan (https://2021.satelliteinnovation.com/speakers/jarrod-mclachlan/) (SpaceX Director of Rideshare Sales) will be speaking in the Competitive Advantages of Various Launch Companies (https://2021.satelliteinnovation.com/agenda/) discussion at the Satellite Innovation 2021 conference, on October 6th, 15:45-16:30 PDT.

A bit off topic, but at the same panel there will also be:

Josh Brost
Vice President of Business Development
Relativity Space

Lars Hoffman
Senior Vice President of Global Launch Services
Rocket Lab

Lauren Lyons
Chief Operating Officer
Firefly Aerospace

All of which at some point in their careers worked at SpaceX. 4 out of 6 in the panel worked or work at SpaceX. Quite interesting!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: alugobi on 10/03/2021 10:40 pm
Lauren Lyons, one of the first live presenters when they still hosted launches from the factory floor.  She did some later, too, when they moved everything to the desk upstairs. 

Always my personal favorite.  Understated, nice voice, didn't seem to be compelled to keep repetitively talking like they do now.  Said the basics and let the video speak for itself. 

Now, it's all yap, all the time.  I miss her, and wish her well.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 11/11/2021 08:40 am
Elon Musk will give a 30mins Starship presentation to the 1st Space Studies Board / Board on Physics and Astronomy (of the National Academies of Sciences/Engineering/Medicine) Joint Session at 6PM EST, November 17

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/11-16-2021/space-studies-board-2021-fall

https://livestream.com/accounts/7036396/events/9926169
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 11/12/2021 10:01 pm
https://livestream.com/accounts/7036396/events/9926169

Note that these streams do not automatically get archived and will likely only be visible there "live" during that event.  I wanted to watch a similar NASEM event last week (on the hugely important astronomy decadal survey report release) but it was only available live.  Of course this is an Elon speech so multiple copies are guaranteed to show up on Youtube within a day :)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 11/17/2021 08:15 pm
YouTube stream starts at ~1800 Eastern

https://youtu.be/rLydXZOo4eA
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: redliox on 11/17/2021 10:02 pm
Of course this talk happens right when I have to leave for work...  :'(

...But I'll be checking in here for the updates on what Elon says this time!  8)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Everything Space on 11/17/2021 10:26 pm
Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1461118159860207624?

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1461114997388492804?
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: docmordrid on 11/17/2021 11:33 pm
Musk acts like they got a mitigated FONSI from FAA.

He expects an orbital Starship  launch in Jan-Feb, 12 launches in 2022, and commercial launches in 2023.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jketch on 11/18/2021 12:19 am
Musk acts like they got a mitigated FONSI from FAA.

He expects an orbital Starship  launch in Jan-Feb, 12 launches in 2022, and commercial launches in 2023.

I'm sure he expects a mitigated FONSI, but I doubt he knows for sure.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: pb2000 on 11/18/2021 01:46 am
Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1461118159860207624?

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1461114997388492804?
The auto generated subtitles are hilarious.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: rsdavis9 on 11/18/2021 04:09 pm
Edit to add:

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1461118159860207624?

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1461114997388492804?
The auto generated subtitles are hilarious.

Yea they are. Except I end of reading the funny text conversions instead of listening to what Elon says.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 11/18/2021 08:39 pm
YouTube stream starts at ~1800 Eastern

That video got set to private after a few hours, so I'm glad I watched right away :) But FYI you can find other reproductions of the video on Youtube (I found two) by searching there for "Elon NASEM" and then filtering to show just >20 minute long videos.  You'll have to suffer ad interruptions but at least you can watch it, and it was super interesting thanks to the great Q&A from an elite, topic-literate audience. Some of the answers were the usual Elon BS, sure, and his comments about Starlink light pollution were particularly offensive. But his answers were generally very illuminating.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 11/19/2021 02:58 pm
YouTube stream starts at ~1800 Eastern

That video got set to private after a few hours, so I'm glad I watched right away :) But FYI you can find other reproductions of the video on Youtube (I found two) by searching there for "Elon NASEM" and then filtering to show just >20 minute long videos.  You'll have to suffer ad interruptions but at least you can watch it, and it was super interesting thanks to the great Q&A from an elite, topic-literate audience. Some of the answers were the usual Elon BS, sure, and his comments about Starlink light pollution were particularly offensive. But his answers were generally very illuminating.

Just to show how large the dynamic range of different subjective opinions can be, I thought the "elite, topic-literate audience"
 (sic) questions mostly reflected ignorance or minimal knowledge of SpaceX's long stated plans and Musks oft repeated standard pitch and stock answers. Very little new learned from the elite's questions besides minor issues like obvious use of insulated tankers, anticipated by most here, and target of January or February launch also anticipated by most here.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 11/19/2021 04:06 pm
YouTube stream starts at ~1800 Eastern

That video got set to private after a few hours, so I'm glad I watched right away :) But FYI you can find other reproductions of the video on Youtube (I found two) by searching there for "Elon NASEM" and then filtering to show just >20 minute long videos.  You'll have to suffer ad interruptions but at least you can watch it, and it was super interesting thanks to the great Q&A from an elite, topic-literate audience. Some of the answers were the usual Elon BS, sure, and his comments about Starlink light pollution were particularly offensive. But his answers were generally very illuminating.

Just to show how large the dynamic range of different subjective opinions can be, I thought the "elite, topic-literate audience"
 (sic) questions mostly reflected ignorance or minimal knowledge of SpaceX's long stated plans and Musks oft repeated standard pitch and stock answers. Very little new learned from the elite's questions besides minor issues like obvious use of insulated tankers, anticipated by most here, and target of January or February launch also anticipated by most here.

Three answers that were not stock, or at least were important because of who he is (the SpaceX CEO) and who he was talking to:

(1) Musk staked out a position on planetary protection, including that a Mars colony should be permissible with strict geographic boundaries;
(2) Musk stated that they were in a position to mitigate Starlink's impact on Vera Rubin and that Vera Rubin was satisfied; and
(3) SpaceX would be taking orders for Starship flights that occur in about two years.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: scr00chy on 12/03/2021 07:39 pm
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Joanna Stern is interviewing Elon Musk on Monday (Dec. 6) at 8 p.m. ET during the WSJ 2021 CEO Council.

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1466797416796065797
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 12/07/2021 01:40 am
Stream replay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSD_vpfikbE
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AC in NC on 12/08/2021 01:16 pm
SS Update no later than End of Jan 2022

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1468334797508521984
Tweet Contents: When Starship update? Definitely overdue!
Hopefully, this month, no later than next
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Ice on 12/30/2021 11:40 am
A lengthy interview with Elon Musk on Lex Fridman Podcast, discussing various subjects, including SpaceX human spaceflight, Starship, colonizing Mars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxREm3s1scA

Asked when SpaceX will land humans on Mars, Elon (thinking long before answering) replied: best case in 5 years, worst case in 10 years.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 01/05/2022 04:05 am
https://twitter.com/TGMetsFan98/status/1478123549822836743

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SpaceX’s Bill Gerstenmaier is giving a great talk at #AIAASciTech. I asked about learning from Shuttle for Starship, and he gave 3 keys aspects to learn from: First, incorporate either abort modes (like Shuttle’s RTLS or Transatlantic) or a separate abort system (like Dragon).



Second, use refueling flights and cargo flights to drive a high flight rate, providing lots of opportunities for learning from flight data.

Third, operate uncrewed variants alongside crew vehicles to provide testing opportunities, much like Cargo Dragon informing Crew.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: philw1776 on 01/05/2022 04:28 pm
https://twitter.com/TGMetsFan98/status/1478123549822836743

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SpaceX’s Bill Gerstenmaier is giving a great talk at #AIAASciTech. I asked about learning from Shuttle for Starship, and he gave 3 keys aspects to learn from: First, incorporate either abort modes (like Shuttle’s RTLS or Transatlantic) or a separate abort system (like Dragon).



Second, use refueling flights and cargo flights to drive a high flight rate, providing lots of opportunities for learning from flight data.

Third, operate uncrewed variants alongside crew vehicles to provide testing opportunities, much like Cargo Dragon informing Crew.

Perhaps he had some major input into the rational decision to add engines to the Starship.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: DigitalMan on 01/05/2022 04:42 pm
I went looking but couldn't find even a transcript of that talk. Can someone here with contacts try to get it posted? I see some of the sessions are posted on youtube by the presenter.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 01/25/2022 06:44 am
I went looking but couldn't find even a transcript of that talk. Can someone here with contacts try to get it posted? I see some of the sessions are posted on youtube by the presenter.

Looks like Bill Gerstenmaier's talk will be available in 11 days at this URL:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WkA2uBiC2U#t=701
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: getitdoneinspace on 02/04/2022 08:00 pm
I went looking but couldn't find even a transcript of that talk. Can someone here with contacts try to get it posted? I see some of the sessions are posted on youtube by the presenter.

Looks like Bill Gerstenmaier's talk will be available in 11 days at this URL:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WkA2uBiC2U

Wanted to bump this thread.
Gerst in T-3 hours :-)
Will be interesting to hear how consistent the messaging is between Gerst during this presentation and Elon next week.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 02/05/2022 11:59 am
Talk is live; link updated w direct timestamp to Gerst's remarks.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 02/05/2022 12:38 pm
Surprised this wasn't posted here yet

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When is the Starship presentation happening, @elonmusk?

Thursday next week at 8pm Texas time

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1489358828202246145



Discussion goes to the appropriate thread: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55358.msg2337551#msg2337551
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eer on 02/05/2022 06:50 pm
Talk is live; link updated w direct timestamp to Gerst's remarks.

That link to about 53:17 is good, but it follows his very important discussion beginning about 47:23 about hard lessons learned, and that as closely as they examined the causes of previous disasters, they failed to contemplate the nature of things that would lead to the next.  He likes the agile approach of build a little test a little that commercial services have been able to use to establish reliability with cargo before moving on to crew.  That sets up his discussion in the linked discussion that Apollo as well as Dragon and Boeing crew vehicles all had escape mechanisms, and before we can get back to the shuttle high reliability design approach with things like SS, we're going to have to establish that the system really is highly enough reliable to be able to get along without escape mechanisms.

At least, that's what I took away from the discussion.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 03/08/2022 02:16 am
Gwynne Shotwell just gave a talk at Caltech:

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1500926839929417730

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A couple notes from a talk SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave at Caltech that just wrapped up:

• SpaceX had been working for a month and a half with the Ukrainian gov’t to get landing rights in the country, then “they tweeted at Elon so we turned it on.” (1/x)



• Shotwell says a 30,000 satellite constellation for Starlink is the “sweet spot” based on demand; can’t meet all the demand for the service now in the US.

• Emphasized commitment to space sustainability, since Starlink would be deep trouble if its orbit was “junked up.” (2/x)



• Starship will “change everything about space” and that people haven’t gotten their heads around it; optimizing for mass or size will be “dumb” given the vehicle’s performance and cost.

• No specific updates on Starship itself. (3/3)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 03/15/2022 03:32 am
Talk is live; link updated w direct timestamp to Gerst's remarks.

That link to about 53:17

You must be experiencing a software bug with either Youtube, the NSF forum, your computer/tablet/phone, or your web browser/forum app.

I linked to a timestamp at 11:41 (not 53:17), which is the beginning of Bill Gerstenmaier speaking.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Eer on 03/15/2022 10:54 am
Could be any or all of the above
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: scr00chy on 03/20/2022 03:51 pm
Gwynne Shotwell and two other SpaceXers will be speaking at the Satellite 2022 (http://satshow.com) Conference

https://twitter.com/bluemoondance74/status/1505561007078395910

Satellite 2022 is planned for March 21–24
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 04/17/2022 12:29 pm
Another Starbase interview with Elon coming soon™.

https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1515521262763880459
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Alvian@IDN on 04/17/2022 12:41 pm
Another Starbase interview with Elon coming soon.

https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1515521262763880459
"Soon" here means "weeks"
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1515543489072742410?t=GecENAQ8PoRWv2T9XUixJA&s=19
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 04/29/2022 04:08 am
https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1519790614073774081

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SpaceX’s Aarti Matthews says at AIAA ASCENDx that the Starship lunar lander is “taking away one of your biggest constraints” in designing payloads: far greater mass (100 metric tons to lunar surface) and volume and an order of magnitude lower cost.


https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1519786392200564736

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Aarti Matthews of SpaceX says the company's investment in Starship is "significantly greater than 50 percent of the cost of the vehicle" compared to government. Point being, the $2.9 billion NASA is putting in for the Human Landing System is a small fraction of the overall cost.



NASA engineer asks what they should do to help industry. Matthews: Plan for capabilities of Starship; 100 metric tons, essentially infinite volume for payload, an order of magnitude of lower costs. "What does your system look like when you have no mass or volume constraints?"



More from Matthews: That's four firetrucks. It's 100 Moon rovers. It's the mass of 11 elephants. "NASA specified a high level need, but industry is taking away one of your biggest constraints, mass. I think that we all need to be thinking bigger and better."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 04/29/2022 04:10 am
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1519796391677149184

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Benji Reed of SpaceX is now speaking on the panel, talking about launching. "A high flight rate is so very important. So important. We should be launching every day. Every hour." Executives from Boeing and Lockheed sitting next to him look on, with poker faces.



More from SpaceX's Reed: "We're big believers in firm, fixed-price contracts. Contracts should be firm, fixed-price." These comments earn him additional hard stares.



Boeing's John Mulholland has a different view on NASA contracts. For beyond LEO, he says, "We've got to be really thoughtful." NASA needs to own (ie buy cost plus) these systems. "There’s some areas that NASA still needs to drive, and own, and be the technical powerhouse."



Photo of the reactions Reed engendered from his counterparts at Boeing (left) and Lockheed (center).
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: getitdoneinspace on 04/30/2022 02:07 am
For those that want to watch this panel discussion:

https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6921949693119782912/

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1519796391677149184
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: alugobi on 05/03/2022 08:00 pm
Aaaaand the NASA chief throws cold water on those poker faces. (https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/nasa-chief-says-cost-plus-contracts-are-a-plague-on-the-space-agency/)

In a complete reversal from when he was pimping SLS, Nelson now thinks cost-plus should be shown the door. 
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: oldAtlas_Eguy on 05/03/2022 10:18 pm
Aaaaand the NASA chief throws cold water on those poker faces. (https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/nasa-chief-says-cost-plus-contracts-are-a-plague-on-the-space-agency/)

In a complete reversal from when he was pimping SLS, Nelson now thinks cost-plus should be shown the door.
This is a very welcome change of policy. It can actually have a twofold impact of lower costs and overall shorter schedule. It will make cost plus an almost extreme exception not the norm.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: baldusi on 05/05/2022 11:09 pm
Aaaaand the NASA chief throws cold water on those poker faces. (https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/nasa-chief-says-cost-plus-contracts-are-a-plague-on-the-space-agency/)

In a complete reversal from when he was pimping SLS, Nelson now thinks cost-plus should be shown the door.
This is a very welcome change of policy. It can actually have a twofold impact of lower costs and overall shorter schedule. It will make cost plus an almost extreme exception not the norm.
The are good reasons for cost-plus. One of them is that if you let the client change requirements and dictate every design decision, you just can't stay within a budget. I think the critique on Nelson's side is just about keep NASA doing design that contractors would be willing (and have the industry expertise) to do the whole project for themselves, like rockets and crew capsules. I'm looking at you MSFC. And probably a bit to Johnson's future regarding LEO stations. But might apply to EO, comms and much more.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/08/2022 06:43 am
Interview, in German with English subtitles, of Hans Koenigsmann

https://youtu.be/iyUrMbMJvKY
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: catdlr on 05/08/2022 07:13 am
Elon Musk’s secret plans for Twitter revealed
May 7, 2022


https://youtu.be/mEs13xDsbT4
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: jpo234 on 05/14/2022 02:55 pm
Another Starbase interview with Elon coming soon™.

https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1515521262763880459

https://youtu.be/3Ux6B3bvO0w
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 06/05/2022 09:22 am
Gwynne Shotwell interview at Stanford Graduate School of Business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-vAeYTxRA
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 06/05/2022 11:22 am
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1533408313894912001

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Deck from SpaceX all-hands update talk I gave last week
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: su27k on 08/06/2022 02:55 pm
https://twitter.com/cstanley/status/1555022098128670720

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SpaceX and our Starlink team will be at DEFCON 30 (@defcon). Are you attending? If so, come stop by and check out our Starlink hardware at the Radio Frequency Village (@rfhackers)! We'll be there Fri & Sat from 10am - 6pm. See you there!

#defcon30 #starlink #spacex
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: RedLineTrain on 08/16/2022 10:27 pm
A short appearance of Sara Spangelo on Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-08-16/spacex-s-sara-spangelo-on-progress-at-swarm-video
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 08/30/2022 07:44 pm
https://ascend.aiaa.org/Category/053a0afa-b7d0-4f58-bf4a-cd5b7f969e98

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Advancements and Partnerships for the Future
MACRO-01
Monday, 24 October 08:30 - 09:45 PDT (UTC-7)

Keynote Address: Going Back to the Moon by Design

Through the Artemis program, NASA will lead an international coalition of nations and industry partners to establish a long-term presence in cislunar space. The blueprint objectives for further exploration in the solar system and the partnerships required to achieve them are opening a new era of exploration.

Pam Melroy, Deputy Administrator, NASA


Partnering for Innovation in Cislunar Exploration

Starting in 2023, the United States ventures back to the moon with a collection of nation-states and commercial partners for both scientific exploration and development of outposts on the moon’s surface. NASA and its commercial and international partners will discuss how human and robotic exploration will secure a better future for all.

Moderator: Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut; former Director, NASA Johnson Space Center

Lt Gen Nina Armagno, Director of Staff, U.S. Space Force

James Free, Associate Administrator, Exploration Systems Development, NASA

Todd Nygren, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology Group, The Aerospace Corporation

Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO, SpaceX

Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/24/2022 03:19 pm
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1584561078649905152

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SpaceX president & COO Gwynne Shotwell was scheduled to speak on this #ASCENDspace panel this morning, but SpaceX VP Jessica Jensen is instead.

A conference spokesperson: "This was an overnight change to the program."

https://ascend.aiaa.org/Category/053a0afa-b7d0-4f58-bf4a-cd5b7f969e98

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Partnering for Innovation in Cislunar Exploration
Starting in 2023, the United States ventures back to the moon with a collection of nation-states and commercial partners for both scientific exploration and development of outposts on the moon’s surface. NASA and its commercial and international partners will discuss how human and robotic exploration will secure a better future for all.

Moderator: Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut; former Director, NASA Johnson Space Center

Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno, Director of Staff, U.S. Space Force

Sandra Connelly, Deputy Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA

James Free, Associate Administrator, Exploration Systems Development, NASA

Jessica Jensen, Vice President, Customer Operations and Integration, SpaceX

Todd Nygren, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology Group, The Aerospace Corporation
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/24/2022 04:21 pm
https://twitter.com/spacecom/status/1584578331764486148

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Jessica Jensen, Vice President, Customer Operations and Integration, SpaceX: moving forward with static tests on path to first Starship/Super Heavy flight. Public/private partnerships like commercial cargo and crew spurred tech and business development.

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1584579435637788680

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SpaceX’s Jessica Jensen discusses how early Starship launches, both test flights and Starlink missions, are essential to “incrementally build up capabilities” for its NASA HLS work to allow it safely land astronauts on the Moon. #ascendspace

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1584579148240101376

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SpaceX's Jensen: "We want to be able to deliver significant amounts of cargo and infrastructure for all of these missions that are going to be essential for letting people live work and do research on the moon for long durations."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/25/2022 09:56 am
Yesterday’s panel begins at about 1 hr 16 mins into this video, with Jessica at 1:36:25

Here is a conference (Ascend) that discusses Artemis among other topics:
https://vimeo.com/763203729
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/12/2022 04:03 pm
twitter.com/v_wyche/status/1591203437227970560

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It was a pleasure hosting @SpaceX President & Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell @NASA_Johnson this week. During her visit, Gwynne met with our senior staff & employees, and also discussed the evolution of SpaceX’s partnership with NASA during a town hall meeting.

https://twitter.com/v_wyche/status/1591203441820729345

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Following the event, Gwynne visited with employees, toured our Commercial Low-Earth Orbit program tables and spoke with NASA subject matter experts.

#GiantLeapStartHere
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 01/28/2023 07:23 pm
Gwynne Shotwell is doing a fireside chat at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference on February 8th:

https://www.cstconference.space/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: vaporcobra on 02/09/2023 12:01 am
Another upcoming Shotwell event!

https://www.aerosociety.com/events-calendar/raes-annual-banquet-2023/
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/09/2023 12:33 am
Jeff Foust’s write-up of Gwynne’s fireside chat remarks today:

https://spacenews.com/shotwell-says-spacex-ready-for-starship-static-fire-test/

Covers Starship testing and Falcon flights this year.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/06/2023 04:41 pm
https://twitter.com/mccaininstitute/status/1654877097620557824

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Up next: McCain Institute’s @PaulFaganDC, Director of Democracy Programs introduces @SpaceX COO @Gwynne_Shotwell and McCain Institute Executive Director @EvelynNFarkas for “Technology, Innovation & our National Interests.” Watch now:

https://www.mccaininstitute.org/the-sedona-forum/agenda/

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“In the 21 years or so I’ve been at @SpaceX, I’ve come to believe that it’s a very important goal.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell on the possibility of humans living on other planets #SedonaForum2023

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“If you want to take people to another planet, you need the ability to go and come back…you need to land the rocket.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“Senator McCain was visionary in looking at the state of the launch industry 10-15 years ago.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“He [Senator McCain] was fighting the fight to ensure that innovation was allowed in government operations and programs.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“We need to really force a rethinking on how we procure systems…what’s tied to that is the regulatory element of how you do things for the government.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“In less than 5 years we put 4,000 satellites in orbit…there’s not a government program that can do that.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“If you ever dismiss you competition, you will get outcompeted. China is a [Space] powerhouse.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell on the new Space race #SedonaForum2023

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“One thing China does not have is reusable rockets. I believe they will get there pretty quickly.” @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“I believe Russia is losing their stronghold on Space, but we should not ignore them because they have capabilities in Space that we have been unwilling to use.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

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“We have Senator McCain to thank in large part for where we are today.”- @Gwynne_Shotwell #SedonaForum2023

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/31/2023 06:53 am
Video of Gwynne’s chat is now posted:

https://youtu.be/4ySsYHRQTxY
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ajmarco on 06/16/2023 12:47 pm
Posting here to not have multiple threads.

Putting this here just in case there might be some SpaceX related information.

https://app.vivatechnology.com/session/c4c3bdfa-2209-ee11-907a-6045bd9538fd

Free registration on the website is required.

Maybe there should be a general Elon Musk live interview announcement thread, to avoid creating new ones like this? Just a suggestion.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: spacenuance on 06/16/2023 06:38 pm
Posting here to not have multiple threads.

Putting this here just in case there might be some SpaceX related information.

https://app.vivatechnology.com/session/c4c3bdfa-2209-ee11-907a-6045bd9538fd

Free registration on the website is required.

Maybe there should be a general Elon Musk live interview announcement thread, to avoid creating new ones like this? Just a suggestion.

I didnt get a chance to watch the whole thing, but doesnt seem like too much on spacex, just the classic "I tried to by ICBM's from Russia" story, mostly AI, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMdFGrnp5XI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMdFGrnp5XI)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 08/19/2023 01:14 am
Running the Algorithm: SpaceX’s Approach to Exponential Growth with VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWakxXjotg
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: CuddlyRocket on 08/19/2023 10:08 pm
Running the Algorithm: SpaceX’s Approach to Exponential Growth with VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev

A good presentation. One mistake though (easily done and not significant). Hayley Arceneaux was not the youngest female in orbit. That's still Valentina Tereshkova. She is the youngest American though.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: spacenuance on 09/08/2023 03:40 am
Not neccessarily a "talk", but upcoming tour of the "SpaceX factory". Hawthorne or Boca?

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This Sunday morning, watch as ⁦Pogue and I wander through the ⁦SpaceX factory and ⁦Tesla design studio and talk about Elon Musk.


https://twitter.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1699967006009704830?s=20
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 09/15/2023 06:02 pm
This appearance yesterday by Kathy Lueders at an SPI space event was mentioned in some NSF discussions (without links), and so I came here to find it (and it wasn't here).  Eventually I found it in a Starship thread, but thought it was worth documenting here, in case anyone else comes here looking for it like I did.

Sorry for the huge embeds; I know how to suppress Youtube embeds here, but not how to suppress Twitter embeds.  There are THREE unique videos below; #2 and #3 are replies to #1.

https://twitter.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1702328968500908412

https://twitter.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1702341661718630538

https://twitter.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1702357443890548773
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Twark_Main on 09/17/2023 01:59 am
I know how to suppress Youtube embeds here, but not how to suppress Twitter embeds.

https://x.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1702328968500908412

https://x.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1702341661718630538

https://x.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1702357443890548773
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 09/22/2023 03:13 am
LOL, thank you Mr. Clemens :)

In another thread, NSF user spacenuance edited all SEVEN (!) of these tweeted videos into a single mp4 file:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58867.msg2523819#msg2523819
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/28/2023 04:23 pm
https://twitter.com/iafastro/status/1707406607842254875

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It is our pleasure to announce that we will be hearing from Elon Musk @SpaceX again at the #IAC2023 in Baku! On Thursday 5 Oct he will join us virtually to discuss together with the IAF President how we can create a more exciting future. Don't miss it at 17:45 – 18:45 (GMT+4)!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: StraumliBlight on 09/28/2023 11:52 pm
IAC 2023 Starship presentation: CREATING A MORE EXCITING FUTURE (https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2023/plenary-programme/highlight-lectures/creating-a-more-exciting-future.html)
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/04/2023 07:33 pm
IAC 2023 Starship presentation: CREATING A MORE EXCITING FUTURE (https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2023/plenary-programme/highlight-lectures/creating-a-more-exciting-future.html)

New thread started just for Elon’s update:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59640.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: OceanCat on 10/08/2023 08:52 am
Achieving 99% link uptime on a fleet of 100G space laser inter-satellite links in LEO (https://spie.org/photonics-west/presentation/Achieving-99-link-uptime-on-a-fleet-of-100G-space/12877-1)

30 January 2024 • 8:45 AM - 9:10 AM PST
Presenter: Travis R. Brashears (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.)

This presentation offers an overview of the design, mass manufacturing, and operational challenges confronted in the development of SpaceX’s global satellite laser mesh operating in low Earth orbit (LEO). The Starlink network consists of over 5,000 free-space optical communication terminals, each achieving data transmission rates of 100Gbps and link uptime over 99%, enabling high-speed global internet coverage.

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ChrisC on 10/19/2023 03:11 pm
I haven't found this reported anywhere on NSF (possibly looking in the wrong places) so I'll put it here:

Bill Gerstenmaier (and others) testified in front of a Senate committee yesterday.  Video and prepared statements are at this link; Gerst's opening comments start at 42m04s:

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/10/promoting-safety-innovation-and-competitiveness-in-u-s-commercial-human-space-activities

EDIT: thanks Zed and FST!
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Zed_Noir on 10/19/2023 07:00 pm
I haven't found this reported anywhere on NSF (possibly looking in the wrong places) so I'll put it here:

Bill Gerstenmaier (and others) testified in front of a Senate committee yesterday.  Video and prepared statements are at this link; Gerst's opening comments start at 42m04s:

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/10/promoting-safety-innovation-and-competitiveness-in-u-s-commercial-human-space-activities
@steveleach posted transcript link to Gerstenmaier's Congressional testimony on the 'B9 + S25 IFT/General Discussion' thread.

If you want an understanding of SpaceX's view on the state of FAA launch licensing, and how they think it could be improved, Bill Gerstenmaier's testimony yesterday can be found at...

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/ADC08FC1-E28D-4178-8D39-16E02BB803CE
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 10/19/2023 07:41 pm
For future reference, congressional hearings, NASA budgets, space legislation etc is covered in the Space Policy section of the forum.

The thread covering yesterday’s hearing is:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58601.0
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/05/2023 06:43 am
https://www.noozhawk.com/spacex-launch-rate-at-vandenberg-sfb-could-soar-to-100-by-2025/

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SpaceX Yearly Launch Rate at Vandenberg SFB Could Soar to 100 by 2025
EconAlliance Future Forum attendees hear about ambitious plans to bring Falcon Heavy rocket to West Coast

by Janene Scully | Noozhawk North County Editor
December 4, 2023 | 6:23 pm

A busy SpaceX soon will be even busier with the addition of a second launch pad and a heavy rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base, where the firm’s yearly liftoff rate could reach 100 in a couple years.

Nate Janzen, manager of launch pad systems and operations for SpaceX at Vandenberg and a 10-year employee of the firm, spoke last week during the 10th annual celebration and Future Forum for the Economic Alliance Foundation, or EconAlliance, at the Santa Maria Country Club.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/06/2023 11:49 am
From the same talk by Nate Janzen:

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Next year, SpaceX will re-evaluate and conduct analysis with an eye toward certifying the first-stage boosters for 25 to 30 flights, he said.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: AmigaClone on 12/06/2023 01:18 pm
Also from the same talk by Nate Janzen:

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Work to ready the site should begin soon, with a goal of the first Falcon launch from SLC-6 taking place in mid-2025, Janzen added.

The 'site' in the quote above refers to SLC-6.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: pyromatter on 12/20/2023 04:48 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwpPIOfyPk
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/29/2023 03:46 pm
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1740775393580245232

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Next week, I will do a company talk for SpaceX, followed later by a company talk for Tesla after the 10K.

I will recap the talented team’s amazing accomplishments of 2023 and describe exciting plans for 2024 and beyond!

These will be posted publicly to @SpaceX and @Tesla.
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: pyromatter on 01/05/2024 02:00 pm
Update:

SpaceX company talk next week on Thursday and will go over the plans for Starship per Elon

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYyOgmDGQ

Timestamp 1:15:40
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 01/09/2024 06:38 am
Elon and Gwynne talk in 2017:

twitter.com/spacex/status/1744581130727391488

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SpaceX completed 18 successful missions in 2017, launching flight-proven rockets and spacecrafts for the first time. It was a record-setting year and we were just getting started on our path toward a more exciting future.
 
Watch the full company talk with @elonmusk:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1744599153160691752

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Pretty much everything I predicted in that talk has happened or is in process of happening
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 01/12/2024 10:11 pm
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1745941814165815717

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In 2023, SpaceX completed 96 successful missions, safely flew 12 more astronauts to orbit, launched two flight tests of Starship, and more than doubled the number of people around the world connected by @Starlink.
 
Watch @elonmusk deliver a company update:
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 01/14/2024 08:59 pm
https://twitter.com/gwynne_shotwell/status/1746652531328172540

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This is why I’ve worked for @elonmusk going on 22 years.

Watch and hear so many quotable themes. My favorite is: “We don’t want to be one of those lame, one planet civilizations.”

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Our extraordinary employees are passionate in the extreme about this mission, they also take on tough challenges, question requirements, and speak up when there’s a better way.

https://twitter.com/gwynne_shotwell/status/1746652535350526393

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I could not be more proud of what they’ve accomplished, and we are truly just getting started.

If you want to join the team, we are always looking for the best and brightest → x.com/SpaceX/jobs
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: Emmettvonbrown on 01/15/2024 07:01 pm
Is there a full transcript of that "all hands" somewhere ? not born english speaker, I vastly prefer reading english (and quoting, too).
Thank you all !
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: spacenuance on 02/14/2024 05:34 pm
2 talks with SpaceXers in the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference coming up in a week. SpaceX is also the main sponsor of this event, which should be indicative of how much emphasis they want to put on commercial space, licensing, and FAA activities right now . . .

https://www.cstconference.space/ (https://www.cstconference.space/)

Wednesday, February 21st
11:00am-11:45am - Fireside chat (sponsored by SpaceX) with Jared Isaacman and MLA

2:00pm-2:45pm - Panel discussion: Moon, Mars, and Beyond with reps from NASA, Blue Origin, Redwire, and Nick Cummings of SpaceX

Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: FutureSpaceTourist on 02/19/2024 05:39 pm
It says recorded in January, but it’s before OFT-2, so Oct /Nov:

https://youtu.be/PqUoBaO7mzM

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Whether it’s launching another rocket into space or connecting a school in the Amazon to the internet for the first time, officials at SpaceX see every success as a step towards something much bigger. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell joins Goldman Sachs’ Susie Scher to discuss her leadership of SpaceX, the fast-evolving world of space travel and commerce, and the latest technologies SpaceX and Starlink is using to revolutionize the industry.


Recorded: 11/1/2024
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: ajmarco on 02/19/2024 06:40 pm
I'm going to make an assumption that it is a typo on the year and they meant to say 11/1/2023, which in the U.S. would be November 1, 2023.

It says recorded in January, but it’s before OFT-2, so Oct /Nov:

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Whether it’s launching another rocket into space or connecting a school in the Amazon to the internet for the first time, officials at SpaceX see every success as a step towards something much bigger. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell joins Goldman Sachs’ Susie Scher to discuss her leadership of SpaceX, the fast-evolving world of space travel and commerce, and the latest technologies SpaceX and Starlink is using to revolutionize the industry.


Recorded: 11/1/2024
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: neoforce on 02/19/2024 07:01 pm
I'm going to make an assumption that it is a typo on the year and they meant to say 11/1/2023, which in the U.S. would be November 1, 2023.

It says recorded in January, but it’s before OFT-2, so Oct /Nov:


yes, the goldman sachs website at https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/goldman-sachs-talks/gwynne-shotwell.html states the date clearly: "This episode was recorded on November 1, 2023."
Title: Re: Upcoming Talks - SpaceX Related
Post by: StraumliBlight on 03/18/2024 04:06 pm
Gwynne Shotwell is speaking (https://www.youtube.com/@SatelliteToday/streams) tomorrow (16:00 UTC) at SATELLITE 2024's How Industry Leaders are Investing in Growth: Innovative Satellite Technologies for New Customers (https://www.satshow.com/program/#session-a0F3b00001I94OHEAZ) session.

Bret Johnsen (SpaceX CFO) and Stephanie Bednarek (VP Commercial Sales) are also attending.