@alexisohanian That email is hugely inspiring. You can feel the excitement in every sentence (and an undertone of anxiety). That's a young you diving into the abyss. Congrats on choosing to leap.
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Jaret Matthews
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Jaret Matthews
@endeffector
CEO / founder of @astrolab_space | Formerly SpaceX & JPL
Los Angeles, CA เข้าร่วม Mart 2009
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MARK WHITE IS A LEGEND. WAHOOWA.
Jack Griffin@jackgriff1n
Most people know @Reddit as the $27 billion dollar company. Almost nobody knows about Mark White In 2004, @alexisohanian was at an entrepreneurship conference in Singapore when he pitched his UVA Commerce professor an idea over drinks. White had seen hundreds of student pitches. He told Ohanian it was one of the best he'd ever heard. Ohanian emailed his roommate Steve Huffman that night: drop everything, we need to do this. Huffman had been planning grad school. Ohanian had been planning law school. Neither of them went. That idea became Reddit. Mark White is my professor today. I sit in class today where every lecture my mind wanders to that night in Singapore... a professor who could have nodded politely and moved on, but instead told Ohanian to go all in. Who wanted to join the board. Who already knew people to call for capital, that's not just encouragement, that's belief. He is the best professor I've ever had and honestly, after seeing this email, it makes complete sense. The same energy he brings to the classroom is exactly what Ohanian needed in that bar in Singapore.
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@aaronburnett Need a big rover to move all that mass the last mile...
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We made a model projecting total potential tonnage to the Lunar surface based on HLS over the next 15 years.
The secondary effects of this present many opportunities for others to build out many cislunar and lunar products and services.
ApoStructura@ApoStructura
I think many people still don’t realize that we aren’t just going back to the Moon, we are going back to the Moon with several orders of magnitude more capability. Starship HLS is going to have 135x the living volume of the Apollo LEM!
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@ameekapadia What about the ones doing a literal moonshot? @Astrolab_Space
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Just came back from LA and it's clear the biggest opportunities in hard tech aren’t always the crazy moonshots.
They’re hiding in industries that haven't seen innovation in decades.
Not because of technology bottlenecks, but because the best talent just wasn't there.
It’s exciting to see that talent disperse through the physical world. @SpaceX and others have set a new bar for engineering rigor that’s starting to touch every other sector from power to machinery to infrastructure.
Hard not to be bullish on the future
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@SRBednarek Congratulations! We'd be happy to donate an @Astrolab_Space rover to the collection someday!
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Delighted to share that I've been appointed to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Board 🚀
I grew up exploring the exhibits, served as a museum explainer in high school, and now bring my two young daughters to both locations regularly to spark their wonder. I am honored to be able to give back and help inspire the next generation of engineers and explorers.
@airandspace
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Can anyone buy a Tesla mega pack or do you have some sort of special permits or something? I need another 1000 amps of 480v during peak, but we could charge off peak
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5 years ago I made a post listing a bunch of the coolest companies for people who wanted to work in space but didn’t know where else to apply besides NASA/SpaceX.
Well the industry has changed a LOT in 5 years so here is a fresh list! From launch vehicles to satellites to payloads I gotchu 👇 🚀
U.S. companies:
@vast
@GoToImpulse
@FireflySpace
@Astranis
@The_TrueAnomaly
@RocketLab
@blueorigin
@Honeywell_Aero
@northropgrumman
@outpostspace
@reflectorbital
@planet
@L3HarrisTech
@SierraSpaceCo
@Axiom_Space
@BoeingSpace
@ulalaunch
@AerospaceCorp
@BallAerospace
@capellaspace
@relativityspace
@agile_space
@Int_Machines
@CesiumAstro
@stoke_space
@ursamajortech
@ApexSpacecraft
@VolundMfg
@astrobotic
@HB_Robotics
@OrbitalOps_
@bps_space
@gru_space
Non-U.S. companies for my friends abroad!
@ArianeGroup
@rocketfactoryuk
@isaraerospace
@SurreySat
@PLD_Space
@Open_Cosmos
Adding a special shoutout section for a couple very cool plane companies:
@hermeuscorp
@boomsupersonic
@Stratolaunch
cait@RockettLord
Wanna work/intern for a space company but you’ve exhausted all of the job apps for NASA & SpaceX?? I gotchu! Below is a thread of some of the coolest space companies in the business. From rockets to satellites to payloads, its all here👇✨ 🚀
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@CJHandmer Here's your next project: science.nasa.gov/researchers/so…
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Hard to comprehend but all 4.3 trillion pixels, plus associated metadata, are now safely portable in this. If you find me, I can plug this into your Google Earth instance. And soon you'll be able to stream it.
There's even room for all my other custom Mars maps.
Casey Handmer@CJHandmer
Okay team. Here it is. A 28 m resolution global map of the planet Mars, viewable on Google Earth. The starter version with just 271,790,899,200 pixels. One of the most beautiful things I have ever made. Please, enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/19SoSdM…
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Today is the anniversary of Day-1 of @Astrolab_Space : January 6, 2020
@rdbilling and I set out to build a rover that will enable humanity’s multi-planet future from a cozy 10’ x 10’ shared office space.
6 years later: more than 100 people are a part of Astrolab, we’re an official contractor for @NASAArtemis program, and we're flying our first rover to the Moon this year.
Can’t wait to see what we accomplish in the next 6 years!
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@aaronburnett This. My time at SpaceX left me with a level of security that made it slightly less insane to start @Astrolab_Space
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In my experience, most of these employees view this payout as a nice side benefit to spending years working on the most meaningful mission someone can work on.
These people are some of best among us, and I expect very few use their wealth to retire into hedonism. Many will start the next thing that accelerates human expansion.
Heisenberg@Mr_Derivatives
I want to know that feeling where you worked at SpaceX for several years earning a decent wage but have a bunch of RSU’s and/or stock options fully knowing you will instantly become 7-8 figures rich next year overnight… Not jealous. Ok a little jealous.
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Thanks to @CBSMornings for the feature on FLEX this morning and coming out for a rover test drive!
CBS Mornings@CBSMornings
NASA astronauts took their first drive on the moon 54 years ago. Now, three companies are competing for a NASA contract to build a new lunar rover for use starting with the Artemis 5 mission in 2030. cbsn.ws/3L45MRQ
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It was an honor to congratulate @rookisaacman in person yesterday, shortly after he was sworn in as @NASAAdmin. The team at @Astrolab_Space and I are looking forward to working with him in shaping the future of the lunar economy.
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I used nano banana to imagine what settling the Moon with a Starship might look like. It definitely hallucinated some stuff below. "Luvarship." This looks more like a video game called "Sim City: Moon." Maybe some of you create better prompts.
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@Astrolab_Space It's probably just my active imagination, but who else can see the male in that clip as @Cmdr_Hadfield?
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Astrolab@Astrolab_Space
Since the initial design of the modular FLEX rover, Astrolab has focused on developing a mobility solution to meet the near- and long-term needs of the lunar economy. Use cases include everything from transporting large payloads on the lunar surface in lander-agnostic containers to deploying essential lunar infrastructure. Activities like rolling out cables are crucial for establishing and connecting alternative power sources on the Moon. For example, cable roll-out is key in the deployment and operations of fission power systems and other critical infrastructure. Early in rover development, we performed field tests of custom payloads that could support power and comms infrastructure, collect samples, and facilitate the use of lunar resources. These tests informed the development of our design to ensure FLEX is as “flexible” as possible.
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Since the initial design of the modular FLEX rover, Astrolab has focused on developing a mobility solution to meet the near- and long-term needs of the lunar economy. Use cases include everything from transporting large payloads on the lunar surface in lander-agnostic containers to deploying essential lunar infrastructure. Activities like rolling out cables are crucial for establishing and connecting alternative power sources on the Moon. For example, cable roll-out is key in the deployment and operations of fission power systems and other critical infrastructure.
Early in rover development, we performed field tests of custom payloads that could support power and comms infrastructure, collect samples, and facilitate the use of lunar resources. These tests informed the development of our design to ensure FLEX is as “flexible” as possible.
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@SpaceAbhi @ucbssl Congratulations Abhi! What an awesome launch.
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El Segundo/Hawthorne friends, where are y'all getting groceries?
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Just landed in LA. Really wish there were more hardware startups working on the world’s hardest problems for me to tour while here.
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@aaronburnett @Robotbeat We are fast approaching an era in which we will be liberated from the tyranny of pursuing mass efficiency and hyper reliability at all costs.
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@Robotbeat There is an entire investment thesis around simply breaking best practices in highly technical fields.
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There’s so many engineering rules of thumb in aerospace that are treated as physical laws on stone tablets. So many of these are just fake, and I’m glad when people do demonstrations to show how fake they are.
SpaceNews@SpaceNews_Inc
K2 Space announces plans for three-orbit demonstration mission spacenews.com/k2-space-annou…
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