Golden hour in between meetings but at lest I’ve got me a robotic chauffeur!.
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I keep seeing all these tech bros wearing aviator jackets who aren’t even pilots.
This is how it’s done!.
How yous doin’ ?.😎
Yesterday NASA announced it is speeding up the Moon program. The way it's speeding up is by sending the next crew to low Earth orbit instead.
I’ve been silent for a few cause we’ve been racking up customers and prepping for our next round but NASA’s announcement caught my attention.
A quick thread 🧵
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I spent two decades+ flying heavy jets, so I'm fluent in this dialect. "Minor delay" means grab a sandwich. "Accelerating" means we moved the goalposts and called it momentum.
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To be fair, the boring part of the announcement was the good part. Freeze the vehicle. Fly it more often. Add capability one flight at a time. That isn't a moonshot philosophy. That's a Tuesday at any airline on Earth.
It's why the jets I used to fly didn't get a press conference every time it pushed back from the gate.
And the industry is clearly listening.
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Rocket Lab just put up launch number 19 for the year. ESA dropped a spaceplane prototype from altitude and the parachute decided to sit this one out, which is fine, as long as the lesson landed somewhere more durable than a Slack thread. The FAA is trimming the review process so companies can move quicker. Getting to orbit has never been this routine.
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Which raises the question nobody asks at the podium: when the launch cadence goes weekly, what happens inside the facility?.
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Because the satellite still shows up in a crate. Someone still opens it by hand, inspects it by eye, fuels it by procedure, and integrates it according to a workflow that lives in three places: a binder, a spreadsheet, and the head of some guy called John whose about to retire or because they were a wrench tech on starship who knows why step 14 comes before step 9.
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We standardized the rocket. We're still processing the payload like it's a custom wedding cake.
That's the gap where schedules go to die. It's also where the next ten years of margin are hiding.
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We are working on that part. Spoiler: it isn't a rocket.
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