3D motion video about SpaceX

[symb]

Hello everybody! I am from Russia, I have been following the activities of Elon and SpaceX for a long time, I love live broadcasts

Now I'm creating a video dedicated to SpaceX in the style of 3D motion, and I would like to collect more information from other fans

There are two questions:

1. What feelings do you have for SpaceX, why do you like these guys? Maybe some specific things?

2. What associations does SpaceX evoke in you?

Super grateful in advance for your reply! And yes, I am not a bot, I'm a dumb bear and that's why I use google translate

[Slarty1080]

Hello everybody! I am from Russia, I have been following the activities of Elon and SpaceX for a long time, I love live broadcasts

Now I'm creating a video dedicated to SpaceX in the style of 3D motion, and I would like to collect more information from other fans

There are two questions:

1. What feelings do you have for SpaceX, why do you like these guys? Maybe some specific things?

2. What associations does SpaceX evoke in you?

Super grateful in advance for your reply! And yes, I am not a bot, I'm a dumb bear and that's why I use google translate

Hard to know where to start…but here are my thoughts:

Most companies are ultimately about making money as their prime goal. This is the reason for their existence and other mission statement aspirations are secondary at best. But this is not true of SpaceX, their mission is “to make humanity a multi-planet species”. This sounds trite and in any other company this would just be a ridiculous fantastical sound bite. But what most people don’t realize is that this really is what SpaceX is about. Money is vitally important, but only as a means to an end not as an end unto itself for SpaceX.

Making humanity a multi-planet species is an inspiring and exciting project that can reawaken the hopes from the 1960’s Space Race and Moon shots. SpaceX is engaged in one of the most awe inspiring and difficult challenges ever undertaken by mankind and has relit a beacon of human progress amidst a world filled with humdrum meaningless celebrity gossip, corporate greed and political insanity.   

The approach that SpaceX takes is also new. Everything is viewed from a first principles perspective. Woe betide anyone who suggests to Elon Musk that something is not possible unless they can back it up with a strong argument from basic physics or chemistry. “It’s never been done like that before” is a sure fire way to become an ex-employee.

SpaceX have taken a clean sheet approach to the Mars program. Cheap reusable spacecraft are an essential prerequisite to any practical Mars program, so SpaceX is building reusable rockets. The Mars program will still require vast quantities of money so SpaceX are building Starlink to help generate that money. Sending a rocket to Mars with sufficient propellant to return from Mars is almost impossible. So SpaceX are going to produce propellants on Mars from Martian resources and that’s partially why the new Raptor engine uses methane as fuel.

Elon Musk has a tremendous work ethic – as he says if you work 80 hours a week you will beat someone who only works 40 hours a week. Musk has been known to work more than 100 hours a week in an emergency and expects his staff to do the same. He is ruthless in pursuing his goal and working for spaceX is more of a calling that a job. It’s more like working for the military special forces during an emergency.

SpaceX is the go to company for bright young engineers and Musk has the knack of attracting the very best and extracting the very most from them. His interview technique is legendary. In the middle of a technical interview he has been known to ask, “if you walked a mile south a mile east and a mile north and ended up back where you started, where did you start from?” Good candidates would quickly come up with “The North Pole”, but would then immediately be faced with “and where else could you be?”. Few get this right but he is more interested in how they approach such a problem.

SpaceX is also an innovator and market disruptor extraordinaire. This collective of focused hired brains is capable of coming up with many novel approaches as well as applying the ideas of others and taking ideas from one field and applying them in another. Case in point sub-cooled liquid oxygen. Existing designs are often pushed to the limit to see what breaks and how. As Musk says if you’re not breaking things you’re not pushing hard enough.

Once they have a basic working solution they will iterate around and around making it cheaper, better, faster and stronger until it has been optimized. They will also optimize what matters depending on the circumstances. For example the Starlink satellites use Krypton gas thrusters rather than the more efficient Xeon because Krypton gas works well enough and Xeon is far far more expensive.

Making humanity a multi-planetary species was always going to range from ridiculously expensive to impossibly expensive, so cost cutting is critical for success. SpaceX achieves this in many ways, one being to cut out as many contractors as possible and bring the work in house. Example: In the early days a payload shroud release mechanism was needed for Falcon 1. Musk assigned an engineer who got a quote from a contractor for $100,000. Musk said “it’s no more complex than an automated garage door go and make one you have $5000.

The engineer had to design and build it from scratch. It came in slightly above budget so he nervously sent a long email to Musk explaining what he had done and why it cost what it did. All he got back was an email saying OK do it, but it worked fine. That story has been repeated time and time again from costly “space rated” telecommunications equipment being replaced by modified terrestrial equipment to highly specialist valve seals and more. The consequence is that SpaceX builds things for a tenth the cost of the traditional manufacturers such as Boeing.

Elon Musk, ,despite his flaws is a truly extraordinary character. Who else has cofounded three different multibillion dollar companies all in different business sectors? Who else can take on the entrenched incumbents in an industry they had little background in and perform the entrepreneurial equivalent of a jujitsu slam on them?

[symb]

Hello everybody! Recently, I asked questions about SpaceX here, because I am doing a video about them. I just do it in order to practice, alas, I have nothing to do with them))

I was wondering what people think about SpaceX, why they are so passionate about it. To be honest, I was super inspired, because I hadn’t talked to anyone so interested before)) In short, I collected a lot of different information, here are the key points:

1. Everyone believes in Elon[edtd], ​​his personality is more than 50% of the company, many simply answered about him, not SpaceX

2. Spaces have achieved real results

3. People want to go to Mars - is also one of the key points

I thought about all this and roughly dashed off the plot of the video: I will show different projects of Ilona and SpaceX, himself, and of course the colonization of other planets

I'm doing the dynamics of the video. Initially, he did something quietly technological, but this is so usual that it is not even interesting to watch. And it seems that all videos about science and technology are just like that. As a result, I redid everything much more dynamically.

Now I'm putting together roughly how the video will look. So far, from the rough blocks that represent objects in the video, here are some screenshots

What do you think? If you wanted to express yourself earlier, then it's not too late

[Lar]

If you want the video to be enjoyed by US viewers you'll possibly want to use Elon rather than Ilona

[symb]

Ahahaha, sorry, this google translate

How do you like the screenshots and the idea?

[symb]

Hi guys!

Sorry it took so long. I completely forgot that I wrote about it here

This is what happened in the end, thanks to everyone who read my posts