SpaceX Tuesday...
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p1stonhead said:
Probably worth a grind to work on something so incredible but stories abound of employees having to commit to pretty much only their jobs and not lasting very long. Proper tough stuff apparently. I read somewhere that Musk sleeps 4 hours a night - I wouldnt be surprised if he wanted his employees to follow his lead!Interesting. I know someone who's friend(s) worked at NASA and moved to SpaceX, and don't have a good word to say. I had originally included that in my post, but deleted it, as it was hearsay and I didn't know if that was true.
Although people I know who work at Boeing, said it went downhill after the McDonnell Douglas merger, so her thoughts that the grass is greener might be false, but I guess it all depends on the team of people she will be working with.
Although people I know who work at Boeing, said it went downhill after the McDonnell Douglas merger, so her thoughts that the grass is greener might be false, but I guess it all depends on the team of people she will be working with.
smack said:
Interesting. I know someone who's friend(s) worked at NASA and moved to SpaceX, and don't have a good word to say. I had originally included that in my post, but deleted it, as it was hearsay and I didn't know if that was true.
I only got my info from the internet to be fair. Things like the below and such (not sure how I ended up in such a place - probably because I thought it would be really cool to work there!)Its probably 50/50 good to bad reviews though to be honest;
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2c2bq9/im...
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/25ixxq/is...
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Spacex/reviews?ftopic=w...
SpaceX's HR guy shot down these stories understandably;
https://www.geekwire.com/2016/spacex-bjelde-overwo...
Edited by p1stonhead on Tuesday 6th June 14:39
I've just finished reading Elon Musks biography, and it sounds like working for him is pretty tough but similar to many Silicon Valley startups. The main difference being that you are saving the world or mankind and it's technically challenging work. Just be careful not to be right when Elon Musk is wrong about something.
The next Falcon 9 launch is scheduled for Saturday, 17th June at 7.10 pm UK time.
It's from LC-39A in Florida and will be carrying the BulgariaSat-1 communications & TV satellite.
This rocket was previously flown back in January from Vandenberg AFB in California. It carried 10 Iridium NEXT satellites and then landed on the Pacific droneship.
The mission after this one follows on only 8 days later, albeit from Vandenberg. It'll carry the next batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. Iridium have a $492 million contract with SpaceX to launch all 70 satellites. They'll all be from Vandenberg, which is better located for polar orbits.
It's from LC-39A in Florida and will be carrying the BulgariaSat-1 communications & TV satellite.
This rocket was previously flown back in January from Vandenberg AFB in California. It carried 10 Iridium NEXT satellites and then landed on the Pacific droneship.
The mission after this one follows on only 8 days later, albeit from Vandenberg. It'll carry the next batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. Iridium have a $492 million contract with SpaceX to launch all 70 satellites. They'll all be from Vandenberg, which is better located for polar orbits.
smack said:
Interesting. I know someone who's friend(s) worked at NASA and moved to SpaceX, and don't have a good word to say. I had originally included that in my post, but deleted it, as it was hearsay and I didn't know if that was true.
Although people I know who work at Boeing, said it went downhill after the McDonnell Douglas merger, so her thoughts that the grass is greener might be false, but I guess it all depends on the team of people she will be working with.
Like a lot of organisations government or private there are good and bad management and it depends on how good in many cases you are at impression management.........and the other managers you are trying to impress. Although people I know who work at Boeing, said it went downhill after the McDonnell Douglas merger, so her thoughts that the grass is greener might be false, but I guess it all depends on the team of people she will be working with.
Caruso said:
I've just finished reading Elon Musks biography, and it sounds like working for him is pretty tough but similar to many Silicon Valley startups. The main difference being that you are saving the world or mankind and it's technically challenging work. Just be careful not to be right when Elon Musk is wrong about something.
Elon won't be managing everyone...there will be departmental managers and as far as saving the world or mankind that is quite a subjective view, most of the technology being developed has been done by other companies its how it's being commercialised. Tesla for example is not the first electric vehicle nor is the idea of re-usable or controllable boosters, what Space X has done is commercialised the idea and built on others research. Just like everyone else. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
Making a successful mass produced EV car company isnt something anyone else has done. Nor has reusable commercial rockets been done.
Often its not the absolute technology that is important its the application of that - but sometimes its just the right time for things to happen. And now imo is the right time for cheap commercial spaceflight and EV cars, Elon is on the crest but he's not unique.
Making a successful mass produced EV car company isnt something anyone else has done. Nor has reusable commercial rockets been done.
Often its not the absolute technology that is important its the application of that - but sometimes its just the right time for things to happen. And now imo is the right time for cheap commercial spaceflight and EV cars, Elon is on the crest but he's not unique.
SystemParanoia said:
he has habit of continually being on the crest though...
Yep thats true, I dont think there is anyone quite like him at the moment. Combination of intelligence, vision, financial backing and ability to push through the ideas. He's almost stuffed it several times but a combination of ability, luck and knowing when he's out of his depth seems to have worked.
RobDickinson said:
And now imo is the right time for cheap commercial spaceflight and EV cars, Elon is on the crest but he's not unique.
ULA could have had reuseable boosters years ago, but until Elon came along with SpaceX they had no incentive to develop them - after all their customers seemed happy paying whatever they felt like charging, and only competition from SpaceX has forced them firstly to cut their prices and secondly to start developing reuseable boosters of their own.Similarly with EVs - the growth of Tesla has forced the traditional car manufacturers to compete with them.
Classic cases of the incumbents getting complacent and failing to innovate, and an outsider spotting the market niche and going for it
Elon's paper available free online http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/spac...
Related article https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/elon-musk-det...
Related article https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/elon-musk-det...
MartG said:
Elon's paper available free online http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/spac...
Related article https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/elon-musk-det...
Has he also invented a way to pause time?Related article https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/elon-musk-det...
How the hell can he have time to write that whilst running Tesla and SpaceX?!
London424 said:
Until SpaceX came along ULA could charge whatever they liked ( within reason ) - after all the US' ITAR regs would prevent many US satellites from being launched by anyone else e.g. Arianespace. Gassing Station | Science! | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff