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#401 – An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi
- If you can’t tell from the picture, Brent and Bryce are twins
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- They both went to RIT and ended up working together at SpaceX
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- They worked on AMSAT for their senior project
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- Fox series cube sats
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- AMSAT will make a plugin module
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- Elona (sp?) grants
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- 1U cubesats
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- AO40 – 600 kg satellite
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- MPPT on github
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- This actually was an analog computer to cut down on components that are susceptible to cosmic rays.
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- It relies on feed forward
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- Stateless design
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- AO91
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- AO92 – just under a year
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- K2GEXT
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- Balloon hipster
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- For their balloon project, they prioritized reliability
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- Used nail polish as conformal coat
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- Fell through a thunderstorm
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- Joined SpaceX mid-2013
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- Around the time of C2 – First dragon mission
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- 1000 people when they joined
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- F921 – upgraded version. This is the one outside of SpaceX as a monument.
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- Engineering as an action sport
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- Watching conspiracy videos about spacex
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- Burning out
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- What electronics are involved
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- Rio Team
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- Consumer parts vs aerospace parts
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- Shaun from Planet episode
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- MIL standard 1540
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- NASA derating
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- Guidance, nav, control
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- Fault recovery
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- Sensing the environment
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- Pyrotechnics
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- Frangible bolts
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- RF telemtry
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- Space race 3.0
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- Lock step (is having 2 processors normally)
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- Voting is having 3 systems
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- Curiosity goes into safe mode
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- Designing circuits at a very low level
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- Understanding every way a circuit that is going to fail
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- As engineers they’re really paranoid now
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- SMPS failure
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- What is the margin of the components
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- Derating = overspec’ing
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- No one complains when it’s lighter
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- FaradayRF
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- 900 MHz digital radio
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- Trying to make a platform for people to build on
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- Delay tolerant network
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- PSK31, FT8
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- ISM band
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- Article about differences
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- APRS
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- National projects
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- SDR vs Faraday
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- CC430 radio
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- 10-100kBaud
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- goTenna
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- TUN tap
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- FaradayRF GitHub
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- Relativity space in LA
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- Aeon 1 engine
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- Careers page
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- Autonomous airplanes
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- Richard Branson quote
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- @kb1lqd
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- @kb1lqc
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- @relativityspace
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