Vice President of Vehicle Engineering @reflectorbital Formerly @agile_space and @spacex Board Member @the_cosmosphere Aero/Astro at @MIT 🇵🇷
Los Angeles, CA, Earth
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Visiting India to secure these launches has been one of the great priveledges of my career!
We’re excited to announce we’ve purchased two dedicated launches with @SkyrootA to deploy future spacecraft.
Our aim is to expand solar energy generation to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and help save lives by supporting search-and-rescue operations at night.
These launches give us assured schedule and capacity alongside our other planned launches from US sites.
Following the FCC’s approval of our first demo mission, we remain focused on engaging with key stakeholders to earn the right to scale.
Onwards!
Full announcement: prnewswire.com/news-releases…
Charlie Garcia retweeted
Mojave Sphinx Heavy is now fully stacked and leak checked ahead of its static fire test a week from today. This will be the first ever clustered liquid in amateur rocketry, producing almost 500 lbs of thrust in total.
The team has worked so hard to get here, and I couldn't be more proud of them.
This mission will return data on the performance of these large space structures that will help us, solar sailers, and anyone with an interest in human built space megastructures!
Time to fly!
We're grateful to the @FCC for granting our application to fly our test mission!
This ruling is hugely validating for our company and reflects America's leadership in testing innovative space technology.
We're excited to validate the guardrails we have built into our technology to mindfully operate our test satellite. Being good stewards of space is critical to the success of this incredible technology. Reflect Orbital is earning the right to operate and we do not take our responsibility lightly.
Reflect Orbital exists to demonstrate that sunlight from space can be an important part of humanity's clean-energy future and provide critical lighting at night to save lives.
Thank you to FCC for recognizing our responsible approach to development and deployment, and we’re so excited to have the opportunity to start demonstrating the significant benefits of our technology to the world.
Did you know that @NASA and Katalyst Space built a satellite in under a year that's going to get dropped from an airplane before a rocket sends it to space to rescue a telescope that's spiraling out of orbit while "No Time for Caution" plays?
The people are safe. Pads can be rebuilt, boosters can be remade. @BlueOrigin stout hearts and clear eyes. There's a lot of launches left to build the future.
We started designing the first vehicle in July. I'm so proud of what this team has done.
Satellite 2 soon and more on the way!
Any of my reindustrialization friends with a sheet metal factory want to help onshore printer manufacturing?
Right now CORE Ones we make in USA have already locally sourced packaging, fasteners and printed parts. Next in line is sheet metal but currently the best offer we got is 2,5x the cost we have in Europe. Happy to get tips for east coast suppliers but we can have larger radius as we have train dock in the factory. But both EU and USA machines are already TAA Compliant. If anyone wants to take a look and help us build the supply chain for fully made in USA printer full cad is here printables.com/model/1520471…
Student rocketry is the strongest forcing function for building the future!
We just partnered with the Musk Foundation to give out $175k in grants to advance the frontier of collegiate rocketry.
This is in addition to the $390k we’re already giving out to collegiate teams building propulsive self-landing rockets.
When we first started, people laughed and told us what we were attempting would be impossible.
2 years later, several student teams have achieved both TVC and throttled hotfire with liquid engines, and they are making fast progress on their hoppers. We’re already seeing hover attempts at a collegiate level!
These kids are doing this on 0.001% of a typical rocket budget, dedicating 80 hour weeks without any pay to build some of the most capable rockets outside of industry.
The reason why so many people fall in love with space and rocketry is because it is proof that humanity is capable of the impossible.
We want to continue to advance that mission.
Back to work.
If megastructures in space are your thing, come join @reflectorbital
Long before the world had Barbenheimer, you could watch The Dark Night and follow it up with Keira Knightley's Pride and Prejudice and I think that's pretty cool.
