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Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdom's 1st female astronaut
"SpaceX's latest chartered flight to the International Space Station arrived Monday with two Saudis and two Americans aboard. Dragon SpaceX docking sequence completes crew dragon freedom, Peggy, John, Ali, ray, congrats on this historic achievement. The Saudi government is picking up the multi-million dollar tab for its astronauts. One, the kingdom's first female. Tennessee businessman John schaffner is paying his own way and retired NASA astronaut Peggy whitson, who now works for space company axiom was welcomed back. Thanks for putting your trust in the falcon 9 team. Hope you enjoyed the ride to space have a great trip on dragon. Welcome home to zero G Peggy. The four are expected to return to earth in 8 days they joined 7 others already at the International Space Station. I'm Julie Walker
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"67 Columbia and 64 we're down to the 50s overnight brought to you by Len the plumber trusted same -day service seven days a week still to come tonight here on WTOP we're going to talk about a former Prince George's County police officer did you know by the way related to this case that while most of us are not allowed to drive and talk on a phone unless it's hands -free police officers still can and that's why this former Prince George's County police officer won big in court will explain it all next on WTOP here's Kevin Kelly chairman and CEO of arc field on the improved utility of commercial satellites and impact their on broadband internet the commercial satellites that we're designing and launching today are much smaller instead of putting one satellite in the payload fairing there could be 80 or 100 satellites in their small sats their lifespan might only be two years but instead of costing a billion dollars to engineer deploy and fly it might cost $250 ,000 the cost of launch has dropped dramatically since SpaceX and Amazon started launching their own launch vehicles so that changes the game significantly and there's a lot more satellites in space ostensibly designed to provide broadband service to the world right the global internet from space that's Kevin Kelly chairman and CEO of for more of this conversation go to federalnewsnetwork .com search arc field mission focused innovation driven 1122 here's Gary Stevens from the Education Department the on Federal Executive Forum on customer experience in government sponsored by Verizon. I think they're founded in an intensive understanding of the customer and their requirements. What do we need to do from an access standpoint? What do we need to do to really embrace that change that's required ensure that we are consistent with adversity inclusion and equity related requirements and then ensuring that it's secure. To listen to the whole program from Trezza Media Group log onto federalnewsnetwork .com search Federal Executive Forum. The WTOP Charity of the Month is a Hydrocephalus Association. Over 1 million Americans are living with an incurable condition that can only be treated with brain surgery. Hydrocephalus is caused by a buildup of fluid that puts pressure on the brain and can be developed by anyone from infants to seniors at any point in their lives. The Hydrocephalus Association provides resources and support to people as well as funding for critical research to find better treatment options and a cure. For more information visit WTOP .com and search charities. You're listening to WTOP News 1123 with a DC man under arrest and charged with shooting and killing a teenager on board a metro green line train last month. Police say the 17 -year -old victim Brandon Ofori was heading toward DC's Waterfront Station when got he into a fight with 23 -year -old Keith Williams. Investigators say Williams pulled out a gun, shot Ofori multiple times before running off at the M Street stop in Southwest. Now riders who saw what happened, they told the metro train operator who stopped the train at the Navy Yard station before he died at the scene. We've got a follow -up to a man shot and killed in DC this week and he wasn't involved in any way as an innocent bystander. He lost his life after an argument escalated into gunfire outside of Northwest Deli yesterday afternoon on 7th Street. Officers nearby heard some shots. They ran over to find 62 -year -old Lasanta Magill suffering from gunshot a wound and he later died at the hospital. It all started as a dispute between at least three men in the entryway of the Deli. The argument spilled outside. It turned violent and ended with gunfire. 20 -year -old Demarcus Barnett of Southeast DC is under arrest and charged with second -degree murder. A weapon was also recovered. Barnett was detained today and pleaded not guilty. He's being held without bond and has a preliminary hearing on June 4th. A former Prince George's County police lieutenant has just won more than a million dollars in damages over an arrest by State a Maryland Trooper for not using a hands -free device to talk on the phone. A jury found the lieutenant was falsely arrested and in prison. I was on my 24th year and it just drug me down. Alita Gaskell retired after 25 years with the Prince George's County Police Department, just one year after she was suspended following her arrest. It was so tough for me. I tried my best to hang in there. In 2019, a Maryland State Police Trooper pulled over then -Lieutenant Gaskell for driving while on her phone, something law enforcement are permitted to do. He came upon me, grabbed me, pulled my hands like really aggressive behind my back, threw me against my car, and arrested her despite confirming she was a cop. Gaskell filed a civil and won. suit A jury awarded her $1 .1 million in damages. Megan Cloward, AWTOP News. Sports at 25 and 55. Powered by Red River, decisions aren't black and white. Think Red. 11 .25 as we go to Frank Hanrahan. Denver Nuggets, one win One win away from
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SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
"SpaceX's giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The rockets took off after a countdown full of hope and excitement and on Musk's company was aiming to send the nearly 400 foot starship rocket on around the world trip from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites. However, within minutes, commentators on the live space ex broadcast realized something had gone wrong. Obviously this is does not appear to be a nominal situation. The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after lift off, but that didn't happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf, in a tweet, Musk called the Tess launch exciting and that he learned a lot for the next test launch in a few months. I'm Karen Chammas
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"Buses. And five megawatts is like five hospitals coming online overnight. And so you need really advanced software that is managed in a way that we've never had to do in the past here in the States anyways. And that's interoperability between your chargers, your utility, your vehicles. And if you're going to make the overall experience reliable, the vehicles are reliable when they're out running. But if they're not reliable, when they're charging, you have a major problem. And so that's maybe the biggest thing we've had to do far more creation around than I expected. I can maybe piggyback off of that specific to power requirements. Boats are recreational boats use more gallons per mile than a fully loaded semi truck. A fully loaded semi truck might get six to eight miles to the gallon. A boat gets one to two. The amount of energy you need to store on these boats is pretty large. The ARC -1 has two battery packs totaling 220 kilowatt hours of battery capacity, which for reference is well over twice the size of any car that you'd find on the market today, like a Model S or Model X. It's identical to what you put in a full size school bus that hauls 78 children around. Exactly. And so one of the biggest challenges is just packaging that much capacity and building battery packs at that size. And then on the boating side, and I'm curious to hear Greg's take on this, but on the boating side, we have a very high continuous power draw. So in the auto industry, what you see is your power demands kind of spike as you're accelerating zero to 60. That's where you draw a lot of power. Once you're up to 60 miles an hour, the continuous power draw tends to be much lower. Boats almost have the inverse curve where, you know, you don't necessarily have very high peak power because it's actually hard to put a lot of power into the water. You're limited by your propeller. Instead, what you have is very high continuous power because going 40 miles an hour through the water, which is viscous, is much harder to sustain that. And so that generates a lot of unique challenges for the marine industry or for our application of electric technology to the marine industry, particularly around how do you cool that when you're generating so much power? How do we make our motors tolerant to that amount of power draw? And again, Greg, I'm curious your take on this from the aviation side. Greg needs 20 ,000 times more power than we do to get a plane in the air. You know what? The comparisons are really interesting. I think I'm going to start by highlighting a few differences just to sort of lay it out there. Each of our battery systems is actually designed to different criteria so that where we've benefited from automotive is the advancement of the cells, right? So there's a definite benefit for improving the energy density or what we've measured in watt hours per kilogram at the cell level. But the architecture of our systems is going to be unique for each application. So I'll give you some practical examples of why that is. When you're building a car or, you know, Duncan, I get your opinion on this and Mitch, I think it'd be fun to sort of fact check here on air. But when you're building a car, a ground based vehicle, the typical consumer is involved in buying that car. And when they buy an electric car, they don't want to think about things like having to replace the batteries while they own the car. You want the car to last through the entire time you buy it. I would say my guess is that the marine industry is a little bit more forgiving than that. They are. Okay, yeah. And the aerospace industry actually expects to have to maintain your aircraft. So when we're designing our batteries, we're actually designing them to a specific life cycle. And so the battery replacement, you know, the quality of the batteries in an aerospace application is what's obviously very, very high, but it's also governed by the certification standards that we're going to have for the aircraft. Part of our advantage at the aviation is that our whole product premise is based on the fact that we're able to design and certify an airplane using the existing standards. So we actually have a clear path to certification. But, you know, we design our batteries to be replaced every 3000 cycles, which given our utilization is about every 3000 hours. So that could be two years, three years, four years, depending on how you're going to use the airplane. But the great thing is, is that the battery technology continues to evolve. And so our architecture is designed so that it can actually be, I'll say, somewhat agnostic to the actual cells that are being used to provide the energy. So we can upgrade our battery every two, three, four years. So when you go in and you do a mandatory maintenance activity, which is absolutely normal for an airplane, you actually end up getting a better plane. I want to chime in there because I think it speaks to how different the problems are for each of these industries. We have an entirely different scenario, which is a big boating season is maybe 50, maybe a hundred hours. We are the opposite of cycle constraint. You will never reach a point where you have out cycled the useful life of your battery, because even with a ton of usage on that boat, it is nowhere near what you would see in an auto industry or in the aviation industry. And one final thought is what we really should get to as an industry is, you know, Gregory uses these batteries for two and a half years and they're no longer suited to the standards that you need, but they're perfectly fine for me. They roll off and they're in applications that are less mission critical where they're still perfectly safe and they've got perfectly good life. That's ultimately a better design than, you know, not to the extent that Mitch explained, but in our school bus fleets are on the road 9 % of the hours in a year and the other 91 % of the time they're sitting idle. So they're actually relatively underutilized. On that note, I'd love to hear from, especially you Duncan and Mitch, because these assets, actually, I guess the plane is, this is true for as well, but for some period of time, they're not being used, right? And so that influences when you can charge, how much you can charge, but also something that we're seeing a lot more with even the passenger vehicles is the idea that some of this charge can go in the reverse direction, getting more use out of the asset itself. And so we'd love to hear your thoughts on, again, this idea that the electrification of these products is not just a gas to electric, but it opens up this whole range of other potential opportunities. Yeah. Look, it's a good question. It's Corda, our business model at Highland and about half of our projects today are backflowing power from our fleet of batteries to the grid when the grid needs the power the most and we earn various amounts of money. But, you know, in New England, as an example, we earn about a third of our revenue just from providing grid services. It's a battery just like any other stationary battery, and it can be used to absorb high levels of renewables production and help meet the grid's demand during the grid's peaks. And so it's a very interesting opportunity for, frankly, all of us. All of our industries are power hungry. And if we charge at the wrong times, it's going to make operating the grid much, much more expensive. And so I think we see it as an issue that is getting solved, but too slowly. You know, ultimately the utilities and the wholesale energy markets we think should develop better products and then better policies to, to sort of really require that this activity is done smartly because if it's done in the right way, you're going to flatten the load curve and drive better efficiency in our distribution system and our generation systems as opposed to the opposite. So we come at this from the more localized customer perspective. You know, Duncan's coming at it from the grid level, which is very exciting because when you stack multiple of these vehicles together, you quickly get into the megawatt hours of capacity. We think about it from two perspectives. The first is the fact that a normal boat outing might be four hours out on the water, but that translates to is 20 hours of downtime that you can then go recharge before you would feasibly be using that boat again. And so it makes charging a much more tractable problem where if a boat's at a dock, you have plenty of time for an overnight charge before you use it again. You don't necessarily need fast charging to exist in order to have a telling electric boating experience. And then the second part is, yeah, that boat is sitting in the off season when it's winter and it's too cold to go boating or, you know, even mid week when you're working and not able to get it out, that's an opportunity to provide power back to your house. So again, not necessarily at the grid level, but that is a tremendous amount of battery capacity that could power your house for a week without you doing any sort finagling of of electric loads. And that's exciting because it presents a whole bunch of opportunities to optimize your energy consumption throughout a given week. It's funny, I was just talking to one of my board members, a guy named John Meskal, but this is the exact same thing. And what we've just highlighted collectively is how well this technology, the battery technology, electric technology integrates into the way that we actually use things. The primary and secondary uses of the aircraft, each of us is looking at the charging network, right? So the infrastructure, but not just at the infrastructure level, also at the actual vehicle interface level. And, you know, certainly our discussions about the charging network absolutely include the idea of secondary storage of energy. Typically speaking, the aircraft's going to fly morning to evening. Cargo applications will be able to use it later in the evening, but it isn't directly related to batteries. It's actually related to the fact that the aircraft's so much quieter that it's But when you look at the typical turnaround time for an airplane, the aircraft, you know, you load passengers onto it, it takes off, it travels for an hour, it lands, then you offload the passengers and baggage and then repeat the cycle. That turnaround time typically takes about half an hour. You can charge your batteries for one hour of flying time, 30 minutes. And that's actually a fairly gentle charging cycle for a battery. You have the opportunity for using fast charge and megawatt chargers and all part of our solution for some applications. But compared to some of the more strenuous applications on batteries, we're actually being relatively gentle to what we're doing with our batteries, even at the aircraft level. And that's actually, again, very, very exciting. So, you know, with today's available energy levels, energy densities that we can get from batteries with the projected efficiency gains that we're going to have as the systems develop, you can actually take that technology that's very clearly in front of us in the next two, three, four years and design it right into your product. It's a great fit. Greg, will you provide charging solutions with the planes? I would imagine your business model is to sell equipment to operators. Is that right? Yeah, but you know what? Thanks for that. There's three parts of our business model. The first is selling aircraft. It raises again, very traditional for an aircraft manufacturer. The second is the aftermarket support. So yeah, supporting those airplanes, part services training, again, very typical. And the third is actually the charging solution. And there's different approaches to charging. There's different ways that you can do it. You can work directly with the airports. Certainly the people who are buying planes from us right now, we're potentially leasing charging applications from us. And we're looking at charging in, I'll call it two different ways. The first is, you know, a fixed charging location where you tap it directly into the grid at the airport that you're going to be servicing your aircraft from. That works very well for maybe an operator that has their own terminal where you can reliably park your airplane. But we're also looking at mobile charging. The idea of having a truck that's specifically designed for charging Alice, our aircraft that has a battery bank on it so that you can, you know, again, quickly charge, we call it an e -Bowser, a fuel Bowser. Maybe a school bus. I will say the thought crossed my mind. I'll tell you, we're in the middle of the same tech R and D and that stuff is hard. It's going to happen and we're all going to get there, but we're going to power a concert. I won't say who, but a big concert. You would have grown up with them. Part of the concession, which is this big part of it. We're going to be powering it with school buses in the fall. And so I'll send you guys tickets. You'll have to come. Thank you. Yeah, great. On that note, I'd love to hear from all three of you and Greg, you've already touched on it for aviation, but I think when people consider electric vehicles, let's just use Tesla as an example, they think, okay, most of the revenue comes from the sale of the vehicle to the consumer, but also Tesla makes a bunch of money through the software, right? That it sells to those consumers as well. And what the three of you have pointed towards is that there are other business models here, right? So it could be the energy moving back into the grid, but I'd love to hear how each of you are thinking about the different business models that kind of ladder up to again, a multimodal system for your company and also where maybe if you're willing to share, you see the biggest opportunity, like where do you see the largest revenue opportunity for your given space? The way we think about it is we are delivering better boats. That's our goals. And everything that we are doing at the design and manufacturing side is optimized around how do we deliver a better product to customers? One of the biggest pain points of boat ownership is the reliability and the maintenance burden. So we are at the design stage and again, through the manufacturing process, designing out a lot of these maintenance burdens. An example is that we have a closed loop cooling system on the ARC -1. It basically uses the hole itself as a heat sink to dissipate heat from the powertrain. And that means we're not ingesting raw water and clogging up filters or having pumps break. Software is also a way to make that experience better. You know, Garmin sells off the shelf sort of navigation maps, and that's a billion plus dollar business for them. We want to offer that for free to customers as a way to kind of incentivize adoption of the boats that we're selling, which is still our core business. When we talk about providing backup power to your house, there is a multi -billion dollar business for backup generators for people's house that we want to go tackle by giving you a boat that you can use to back up your house. All of these are still in support of our core product, which is selling better boats to people at, you know, customers put on earmuffs at very good margins. That's kind of the core business that we think about a lot of the investments we're making go back into driving sales around that core business. I would generally echo some of those themes. I think the market has historically operated in a way such that OEMs are really good at making a product, making a vehicle, whether it's a plane or a boat or a truck, whatever it is. But they tend not to be in the fleet operations business. They tend to sell it to an operator. And that could be someone who buys a car who's just driving around town. It could be a waste hauling business. It could be Delta, right? So there are end users that tend to be fleet operators. The business model opportunity that we see is to create more performance based guarantees around these new vehicle classes. There's a ton of sort of perception out there that it's new tech and so it's not going to be reliable. And there's also a perception that what is this fuel cost? It's electricity. I don't really understand it. My utility bill is very complicated. It's got all these line items that we don't really understand. So, you know, core to our business model, which we're confident has accelerated adoption in our category and driven the Highland business, is this concept of making it very simple and performance based. So we will often get paid by the mile. We might charge a customer $3 .50 per mile and they get all the equipment. They get all the services. If the charging station breaks and the bus isn't charged, we just don't get paid. So there's very much an alignment of incentives. And then I think by making it performance based, we tend to own the assets and we can then bring on downstream services to increase utilization. You know, Elon Musk wrote a great article recently about how he views autonomous electric vehicles as capable of taking utilization from single digits up to 50, 60, 70 % because all of a sudden you have autonomous vehicles performing tasks and, you know, that utilization changes dramatically. So we need fewer vehicles or we get more done with the vehicles that we have. But I believe that's a big opportunity. You know, if you look at garbage trucks, school buses, parks and rec vehicles, any vehicle out there that is not long haul trucking, and you have this dynamic where you can start to piece together other ways to make money or make that asset useful. And if you can deliver it as a service and make it easy for the customer, I think that's where the market's going. That's really exciting, you know, just to maybe tack onto the exact opposite end. I think there's an opportunity for people in the infrastructure development business to actually go and start selling solutions to bringing the right electrical services and layouts, well, almost like an urban planning exercise, but to actually, you know, get the power lines, get the infrastructure set up for whether it's the airport, the marina or the schoolyard or wherever you're going to do your charging, that's something that I think we all share. And right now I know that people come to me to ask, you know, where should I put my charging station at my airport? How much capacity should it have? And so the fact that people are coming to me as the aircraft manufacturer means that there's probably no place else for them to go to get that information right now. I think there's an opportunity for somebody listening to this, who's looking to start a business to actually become an expert in doing that, you know, focus their attention on it and start delivering those solutions. On the note of opportunity, it feels like there are still some challenges in the industry that could be related to regulation. It could be related to the grid infrastructure that exists and needs to be upgraded. It could be the battery technology. Mitch, something you mentioned is potential fear around range anxiety, depending on, you know, the product and its needed range, or at least what consumers think they need in terms of range. And so I'll just open it up to the group. What gaps are there for people to tackle and what would you love to see people tackle? Greg, I love that you've already mentioned one very clear opportunity, but it feels like it's still kind of open range in a way where there's a lot of work to do in the next few years. And I'd love to hear where the three of you are seeing the biggest opportunities. So in terms of aircraft in the United States, there are five thousand airports, about three thousand six hundred of them have paved runways and have aids. You can you can fly a small commuter aircraft like Atlas from those runways as a commercial operation. But we don't use three thousand something airports that we use a couple hundred airports with regular scheduled service. And that's actually something that's changed over the past 40 years. We used to be able to fly point to point much more often than we can. But the market after deregulation, the market, it went away. But even so, if you look at the breakdown of the world's air travel, and it's very similar whether you're in North America or Europe, half of all flights in the world are under five hundred miles. And a full 30 percent are two hundred and fifty miles or less. Watch planes fly by. There's a 30 percent chance the plane that you're looking at is flying a flight of less than two hundred and fifty miles. And the proposition, I think Mitch was mentioning this, I think we're on the same page on this one. It's a very different thing. Yeah, we're A to B, not necessarily A to A. But if you go back to the whole culture around the automobile, when you get in your car, you want to be able to get in your car and go wherever you want to go without any concerns. You go, it's open road, it's freedom. You know, it's a great sensation with an airplane you want to take off from the airport you wanted to take off from, fly for exactly how long you wanted to fly and then land at the airport that you wanted to land at exactly when you wanted to get there. Right. So it's a very different prospect. And so there's a wonderful marriage here between what the technology is available today in terms of what we can achieve with range and payload for an aircraft and the way that people actually want to fly. So, you know, our plane today represents potentially 30 percent of the total market for aircraft if you look at it. And that's pretty outstanding. It's such a great point that there's this marriage between the technology and how people are using this. And I hadn't really thought about the culture around how you approach plane flights. But that's so true. I mean, you before the trip ever starts know exactly where you're going, exactly the distance that you're going and so you plan accordingly. If you get out on a gas boat today. It's stuck in the 1980s. Your fuel gauge goes like this. They're super unreliable. Your speedometers don't work. There's no odometer on boats. The state of the art in most cases is unscrewing the fuel tank and looking in and guesstimating how many gallons of gas you have left and then using intuition to think how far can I go on this many gallons. So it is common to run out of gas on a gas boat. I've done it personally at least a dozen times in my life. And when you think about what you get with an electric boat, suddenly you have down to the percent level precision on how much capacity you have left on that. And you have intelligent software that can tell you this is how far you can go with that amount of battery capacity. And oh, by the way, something that's unique to boats is if you're out in the middle of Lake Tahoe and you have 5 % battery, you can reach any other point on that lake as long as you're going five miles an hour. It's not a question of if you get back, it's a question of how long it takes. And that is something that's so novel and such a huge improvement from a customer perspective over where things are at with the gas industry today. So I guess going back to the opportunities, I think about it in three years, there's plenty of these product opportunities. We happen to be tackling the marine space and delivering much better boats to people that happen to be electric. You can look across all these industries and find those opportunities where the technology that exists today, the electric power train delivers a better and more compelling experience to people. And I think, you know, the three of us are all doing that. There's also supply chain opportunities. We want our battery prices to be lower. We want our high voltage electrical power chain components to cost us less. That helps us a lot. I think there's a tremendous number of opportunities at that kind of base supply chain level. And then there's this third category of what I call second order opportunities. You're going to have an electric future. Imagine what that looks like. Well, you're going to be towing around a bunch of electric boats in electric trucks, or you're going to be towing around an RV in an electric truck. And what does that mean in terms of the new charging infrastructure you need to go support that or the new technology you need to go make that happen? Maybe it's powered trailers that can actually help the vehicle. Or there's just a ton of opportunities. And if you cast your mind forward a few years and think about what are the new problems that are going to exist when the marine industry is going electric and the aviation industry is going electric and the bus industry is going electric. Yeah. And I think interoperability and industry standards is a challenge today. And we've left it largely to sort of standards making, you know, traditional industry associations to drive standards. And in my opinion, it's been too slow. We've integrations done with 15 to 20 utility companies in the last 12 months. And every single one of them has been discreet and different. You just have to put the right team on it to know how to navigate the system and get through to the other end. But putting better standards in place would allow for what Mitch is describing. Your boat is charging your house when the power grid is down or for four hours every afternoon when the grid is strained and demand charges are kicking in or your trailer is charging your vehicle because it's got extra power. That's all interoperability that needs standards. I would flag one other challenge. Mitch mentioned it, but it is one of our greatest pain points, which is supply chains. It's not just about getting the sell cost down so we can deliver cheaper product. It's being able to deliver product full stop. The last couple of years have been really tough on supply chains. It's led to soaring costs, but also poor reliability. We're one of the largest buyers of medium and heavy duty truck platforms in an electric format right now. So we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars per year of equipment purchases. We're not billions yet, but we will be quite soon. And even as a large buyer, it's tough to get product. And so you've got manufacturing sites that have thousands of completed vehicles and they are all short an air compressor. So they can't complete these vehicles and deliver them to customers. And so we are buying switch gear 18 months in advance for projects we don't even have under contract yet, because if we don't have switch gear, we're not getting the infrastructure completed and we can't get up and running. We don't get paid. And so we're solving problems that we shouldn't have to solve, in my opinion. And so I think for some entrepreneurs, there could be big opportunities in streamlining supply chains and creating better standards. I heard a very creative description of the supply base over the past couple of years and it was called the surprise chain. That's all you need to say. Perfect timing, timing for what we're doing. You look at the outlook on the aerospace industry right now, particular aircraft manufacturing, and a lot of the major aircraft manufacturers have already launched their next program. So they're into entering the service, they're delivering them. And if you take a look around at the large and company aircraft manufacturers, there's no new programs on the docket right now. And the tier one supply base and even the tier two and tier three supply base, they're all hyper aware of what they're going to be working on. And it gives us an opportunity to show, hey, we've got an aircraft, we've got a market, we've got good orders, the utility of the product is there. And I think what's going to happen is that the new technologies that we're bringing and our new products are actually going to garner the attention of the forward looking supply chain. So I think we're going to disproportionately benefit us in the aviation industry. But I think the same is probably broadly applicable. The new technologies, new companies are actually going to benefit from obtaining the focus of the established tier one, tier two supply base. So I don't want to say the problems are behind us yet, but I think the outlook is actually great. The sun is shiny. I'm curious how you two think about this. I know for us, there are incredible advantages for bringing the battery pack in house. And that's why we vertically integrated our battery pack. Like it is structurally integrated with the boat hull in the same way that, you know, electric cars didn't become that compelling until you built the car around the powertrain under one roof. I think the opportunity that I see at least is on some of the other atomic components that go into a high voltage electrical system. An example might be a DC DC converter that when we started ARC, there was one on the market and we did not have much choice. There are now 30 of those. And that's exciting because you can use those across applications more so than you can just drag and drop an entire battery pack. And so when I think about supply chains, it's actually some of those more tonic components or connectors are a big one for us that are just historically been a nightmare. Those are examples of things that work across the application and are not necessarily so tailored to your application. So I wouldn't necessarily encourage people to go after building an entire battery pack and trying to make that battery pack work for both boats and airplanes, because that's going to be really hard. We have very different objectives out of what we want from those battery packs. But you might be able to find components that factor across those. I agree. You want the keel and the ballast to be replaced by battery packs, I'm guessing. Yes, we actually don't mind weight on a boat. It allows you to throw a bigger wake and makes the boat more stable. So we're not as weight constrained as some other people. Certainly for us, you know, that's a prime example of the difference in some of the design criteria that we've got in the aircraft side versus the marine and land based applications. But what we've seen in terms of technology evolution is, you know, talking to people, DC to DC converters is, by the way, the perfect example for a shareable component that has an important role to play. But I'd like to take it one step further, which is why do we need the DC to DC converter? Why don't we just get the subsystems made to operate at the same 800 volt system level as the rest of the equipment? Right. And so we're seeing high voltage applications of, you know, traditionally lower voltage electric components coming up, but environmental control systems that operate at 800 volts now looking at other actuation and so on that operate at high voltage, reduce your wire sizes. I mean, that's what we're pushing on. Great point. I would love to see some of these low voltage components actually come up and support high voltage ranges. That would be awesome for us. Maybe as a follow up question there, Mitch, you mentioned whether or not you design your own battery packs, given that every single one of these planes, electric boats, school buses have many components. How do you think about what is inherent to your business and that you build on your own versus buying or borrowing? And then I guess tacking onto that, what I really am trying to get to is this idea of what moats might arise in these industries. Like I imagine, let me know if you guys disagree, but like, let's say 10, 20 years from now, we're going to be seeing a lot of electric boats, a lot of electric school buses, a lot of electric planes. And so where does the differentiation come from? We're just over two years old and we are delivering the most advanced electric boat in the world to paying customers. That's exciting. The way that we've been able to do that is by leveraging a lot of the research and development that has gone into the automotive industry over the past decade intelligently and apply it and adapt it to the unique challenges in the marine industry, we're very careful to integrate the things that become the platform for all future boats we develop and try to not integrate the things that do not give us a unique advantage over time or that are more marginal improvements. So the battery packs are core to that mode and that's hard. It is hard to build your own battery packs. When we talk about mode, we have an incredibly talented team. We have top talent for SpaceX and Tesla and Rivian and other EV companies and around the clock to integrate those battery packs and get them production ready for customers. I just was wondering, do you aspire to be in commercial boating applications or does all that IP you're describing, which sounds very cool, doesn't it all apply when you get into ferries that may have predictable routes, maybe not long haul shipping, but I don't know. Our aspirations are that everything on the water eventually becomes electric. And the playbook that we're taking is to start on the recreational side. What we're doing is building a strong brand, we're building a technological mode, we are building an extremely talented engineering team and along the way, we're driving down our cost of capital because boats are very good business and the more boats we produce, the more working capital that we have. And those are the ingredients that ultimately set you up to more efficiently go after larger craft, which I'm not necessarily ready to talk about that part. We have our hands full on the recreational side, but certainly there are aspirations to go there. I heard yes. Thank you. You know, we found the sweet spot for making an electric plane. Well, you know, the size of the aircraft, it's a nine passenger aircraft. It's nine passengers on purpose because in the United States, you can actually fly nine paying passengers with a single pilot. We have two pilot seats, so you can also use that other pilot seat to train a new pilot, which will help address the overall pilot shortage that we've got. And we didn't do that in isolation. We've come up with this approach based on interacting with real customers and figuring out what they need and what the market needs. The other thing is we're building, you know, it's an electric airplane, but it's just an airplane. So it's a part 23 commuter category aircraft. That means that we're building it to be certified under the existing standards. The pilots who fly it will be able to fly it with their existing pilots licenses. They get trained the same way as they would for any other aircraft that size. Likewise, that the mechanics and people who operate the aircraft on the ground and maintain it, same system that we've got today applies from existing airports using the existing airspace. Right. So we've got this product that's being fit so that we don't have to go and change. The way that aircraft are certified and say the other way around, what we're able to do is say, look, we've developed an electric airplane that meets all of these standards rates, our plane meets the same standards as any other airplane in its category. And to the point of mass adoption, a hundred percent, I firmly believe in the next 10 to 15 years, we will all be flying regularly on electric airplanes. I have aspirations to get my pilot's license. And one of the things that clicked for me is the biggest risk to being a pilot and flying, you know, a Cessna is reliability of those vehicles. And the number of check -downs that you have to do on an aircraft before it gets into the air. In my mind, like electric aircraft make a ton of sense because you get that extra reliability, you know, almost free that you're no longer worried about the whole class of problems you worry about with mechanical engine failure on an aircraft. So I am personally excited for that future. I want to fly an electric plane. I aspire to visit Greg and have him take me for a flight in his plane. Me too. You guys can all rotate. You can do it packed. I was going to say, go out on the boat. One for a boat demo. Yeah. Everyone's going to the concert. I can ski a little bit. Great. You know, Steph, your question on differentiation, you know, these guys obviously have products that have had a ton of IP investment that's truly technical IP behind the product. We're a really different business. You know, we buy a finished product for the most part from leading OEMs and the business model that we're running is really bundling and packaging of services and financing. And if you look at the big solar operators, companies like Sun Run and, you know, other utility scale businesses, they drove commercial adoption. And that's because they very elegantly bundled and packaged a whole bunch of services with capital and they made it very easy for customers to adopt. And so we were very much in that business. It's lots of little things from training mechanics to training drivers, to building a technology backbone that's scalable so that we can actually operate these fleets relatively efficiently. But I think one of the things that we've identified as a core differentiator for us right now is simply scale. We're the largest provider in this space. We have more contracts and bigger contracts than anyone else. And when you look at scale, especially in the early days of the market evolving, we have better access to capital, cheaper capital. We have more miles under our belt to prove to that capital that, you know, we're a reliable operator. We can buy product at scale and get better terms in buying everything from charging stations to switch gear to construction services. And then because it's local, we have operators on the ground that are, you know, responsible for actually delivering some of those services. Some of them are really technology driven, but some of them are people on the ground who actually have to turn some wrenches and we have scale in places like Maryland, Michigan, New England, where it's much cheaper for us to operate and add that next customer than it is for our competitors. And so I think those are some of the moats we're building, but very much believe that it's a more challenging bundle of services than operating a solar farm and that's going to continue to be difficult for others to replicate. Absolutely. My summary of Duncan's point there is ideas are cheap. The hard part is execution. I'm sure there are a million people in the U S that have thought somebody should make a Tesla for boats. The hard part is how do you go build a product that can actually deliver that vision? How do you go package enough battery on a boat to make it compelling in such a power hungry market? Yeah, totally agree. How do you do that without, you know, spending incredible amounts of money on capex or R and D that's the hard part. And I think that speaks to the moat here is it is hard to go do this. That's amazing. I couldn't have said it better. I completely agree with that, but I also just want to pick up on one point that Duncan just made, which is very, very important. It's the order book, right? Either having a real order book where you've gone sat down with the customer and they've said, yes, we want your product. We aviation recently passed by the $3 .5 billion pre -order, right? For the aircraft, more than 400 airplanes on LOI that we have with our customers now, and they're real customers. These customers that are signed on early are committed to working with us on the program. They're giving us feedback. They're giving us information about how they're going to actually operate the planes and then they're there to work with us to be our launch partners. When we actually put those planes into service with them in the next few years. So I just want to emphasize that that order book says so much about what your market is saying. And then, you know, recently we just announced to deal with the leasing company. And the leasing company doesn't just bet on our aircraft, the leasing company is betting on the market. And so it's telling you that there is a market for your entire product line. Where leasing company buys it. It's a very, very important to look at that mix. I should share that we chose the three of you to contribute to this conversation is because we did do our research and check that all three of you have orders booked. That was really important in terms of like, you're actually on the ground. You have relationships. And to all of your points, it shows that this is not just an ideal where we want to electrify and eventually people will buy into this, the market is actually participating in this or saying, okay, you know, the cost combined with the other benefits that we're seeing in this industry now are actually better to the point that we're ready to put our wallet down. And so that was really important in terms of us determining, you know, there are many participants in all three of these spaces, and so that was essential for us, but I also want to just quickly note that all three of you spoke to so many different opportunities for modes. Like there was technical modes, there was operational modes, there's even potentially like regulatory modes. And so I think it's fascinating to imagine how this develops, right? Because there's not just one single moat. Each one of you are figuring out where your business tied with your custom base, whether it's B2B or B2C, like what they're really looking for. I think one great place where we can end this conversation is we've already kind of spoken to this idea that this is where these industries are moving in five years, 10 years, 20 years. We do expect these set of industries to change and to be electrified. And so I'd love to hear the three of you just comment on what that really means, like contextualize the impact of, let's just say like maybe not all aircraft, but like most aircraft being electric, most boats being electric. I know this will take time, but I'd love for the audience to just understand maybe the second, third order effects or the implications of that shift once it's fully manifested. I think something that some people don't necessarily think about is the next generation of boaters will not be allowed to use gas boats on our lakes and rivers. They are very unpopular because they're huge polluters, you know, semi trucks out on the water, except a lot of them don't even have catalytic slicks behind boats as they take off and all the noxious fumes around their CO2 poisoning warnings on the back of these boats. Fast forward several years, you're looking at marinas that are quiet, that have clean water around them because these boats are not polluting into them. We'll take an ARC -1 out into a marina and we'll pass a sailboat and the sailboat will be louder than our boat. So just this ability to suddenly appreciate and enjoy water so much more than you're able to today with kind of this drum of engine noise kind of drowning everything out. It's an exciting vision that we're driving towards. When you look at urban areas around the country, the EPA, you go to their website and look up who's in attainment of air quality that's fit for being healthy for human life is effectively the way they describe it. And most of our major cities do not meet the threshold. And it's because we have tailpipes from vehicle traffic. You know, we've essentially moved all of our power plants further outside of urban areas. We don't run coal plants in cities anymore. And so that air quality is a function of tailpipes and cancer rates, rates of pediatric asthma are high in cities where tailpipes and vehicle traffic is high and areas where the airflow does not wash those fumes out quickly and easily enough. And so there are places in California where we're engaged with municipal leaders where pediatric asthma is over 30 percent. And so our vision is tackling air quality at the local level, tackling climate change at the same time, creating a very clean, quiet urban future. And, you know, Mitch said quiet. We would say the same thing. Our bus depots are silent and the buses operate almost entirely silently. Trash pickup could happen earlier in the morning because you don't have the loud rumbling noises of a diesel engine. And the grid is not utilized to the tune of 36 percent or 38 percent. It's utilized to 55, 60, 65, 70 percent. And so we can integrate more renewable energy, not less. We can reduce demand charges and just charges to ratepayers and create an ecosystem where transportation of all forms, whether it's flight, marine or road, is really integrated into an energy ecosystem that's more efficient, cheaper and better. In the near future, you're going to be able to take a 10 -minute trip to your nearest airport, get on an airplane and fly for an hour to do a day trip that previously would have been an overnight trip or a trip to an airport half an hour, 45 minutes away and going through security. You're going to be able to conveniently move from point to point to go do the trips that you want to do. They'll be more time effective. It'll be good for the economy in terms of enabling more trade, but also in a social perspective, you know, just being able to go and see people that you want to be able to see. We thrive in connectivity. This type of connectivity will disproportionately benefit small rural communities, communities that previously have not had the benefit of having air travel, which is a real economic motivator. These flights will be much more cost effective than the flights we have today because they eliminate aviation fuel and replace it with a much cheaper, electrically -derived energy from the grid. As with those other forms of transportation, electric aviation is very quiet, which means that not only will you be able to increase the frequency of flights or even add previous flights that just haven't existed in decades, you'll be able to do it not worrying about polluting the environment, but also not worrying about irritating your neighbors because the flights will be so quiet that nobody will complain. In fact, you will want to have that airplane next to you so that you can take advantage of it. It's going to change the way that we fly. And really this is the future. I'm just picturing this like summer day in my head where you wake up, you go to your nearby airport, you fly to your friend who lives near a lake, you go out on an electric boat. After that, you go to a concert powered by an electric school bus. And I'm just, you know, this is obviously an extreme scenario. It's the perfect day. You know what? It's the perfect day that is hopefully enabled by technology in the coming years. So it's not far off. Let's make it happen. Yeah, we're counting on you guys. Let's make it happen. I think that's a great place to end off. Thank you so much for sharing the amazing things that all three of you are building in your respective spaces. And I think it was fascinating to just see the overlap and also some of the differences that are unique to your industries. Thank you for the excellent questions. It was really inspiring and thought provoking. And Duncan and Mitch, that was really enjoyable. Thank you both. Yeah, I would echo Steph. Thanks for getting us together. And Mitch, you know, Greg, love to stay in touch with you guys. Love what you're doing. It'd be a pleasure. Yeah. Thank you for having us. And it's an awesome and inspiring conversation. I look forward to it. Thanks for listening to the A16Z podcast. 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"Writing about the Twitter drops, what is your sense about mister mask? Is it really about the First Amendment? Because he's a very canny and shrewd businessman if you look at Tesla, if you look at SpaceX, he seems quite, I mean, I was on multiple Twitter spaces with him. I got to ask him questions. I kind of, he seems quite serious. What about for you? I think he's demonstrated his seriousness and reinstating people like Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene and lots of other accounts that Twitter would never have reinstated on the dragon doors to your paraga while. So yeah, he's suddenly demonstrated serious and there has he restored everyone has he gone full First Amendment. You know, not yet, but there are a lot of things standing in the way of that notably the chokehold that app stores have over this ecosystem of an App Store, the platform's Twitter, that would be a huge hit to the company, especially given that it's already struggling with advertisers pulling out how to make up that revenue. So in a sense, you can't go too far, but he's gone quite far already. I spent restoring Donald Trump was really the big one. That's what the media and the Democrats really did not want him to do. And then now he's embarrassing the leap state by releasing all these files. Again, not telling us anything new but confirming a lot of what we knew was going on. And
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"For our daily tech and business report today we're joined by Bloomberg reporter Lauren crush. In a win for SpaceX, the FCC has been approved as approved sending up another massive fleet of Starlink satellites into space bringing Elon Musk company one step closer to blanketing the earth with low orbiting satellites and that aims to bring fast broadband Internet access to remote and rural areas. Now, this comes as a blow to the rival satellite company via sat, which had asked the FCC to deny SpaceX requests saying there were some serious risks. So Lauren, what would there be? Any risks from this other company? There's always risk when you're putting more satellites into space. But I think the key distinction here is that this is actually only a partial filing or a partial approval for the overall application that SpaceX has submitted. They actually wanted to get approval for nearly 30,000 new Starlink satellites, but the FCC only approved them for 7500 satellites. And that was in direct relation to the concerns that companies like and Amazon had because they were concerned that there would be a heightened risk of in orbit collisions. If SpaceX had a bit of approved for the full 30,000 satellite constellation. That's a huge amount, 30,000. I wonder if he knew that they were never going to approve that many. So why not ask for more and see what you get? I mean, there's certainly been discussion about why SpaceX has been asking for so many satellites and it has been kind of likened to a bit of a land grab in space. And if they can get the approval, then they have the means to get what they want up there. They might not use the entirety of the satellite constellation. But I'm sure SpaceX will probably need to be reorienting its plans given that it didn't get approval for the full one. Well, how many do they have already, though? So they've launched more than 3500 satellites so far and they have about some more over 3000 working in orbit right now. And you have to remember, they already have approval from the FCC to launch nearly 12,000 satellites. So this is 7500 in addition to those earlier approvals. But these new satellites are their gen two satellites. They're the more powerful upgraded satellites that will give you more connectivity. So they're much more excited and eager to launch these new satellites, which will be launching either on the falcon 9, their workhorse rocket or their new starship rocket, which they are developing in Boca chica, Texas at the moment. So what's the shelf life of one of these up there? I mean, if you're always going to send something else up that's got a longer shelf life and then somebody tracking, when things are going up, when they're supposed to disappear and whether they're actually doing that? Yeah, absolutely. There's plenty of amateur satellite trackers keeping close tabs on these satellites. But the rule is that they have to come out of orbit within 5 years because they don't want to have a super congested environment in low earth orbit. But we don't quite know the impact of the carrying capacity of these satellites. So it's unclear just how they're impacting the low earth environment. Some researchers are noticing closer contact. I mean, nothing has actually come into contact at the moment. But closer near passes, if you will, in space. So yes, they do need to come out of orbit, not for very long. Or else it would be a pretty crowded environment up there. What I'm going to say a near hit or a near miss, neither one of them is something I want to see happen in space. At nobody wants that to happen because when that does happen, it creates thousands of pieces of debris that threaten other satellites in orbit. So we definitely want things to clear of each other. It still sounds like the basis of a sci-fi movie. Hollywood movie. Absolutely. But you have to understand, that's the reason that the FCC made this partial approval is because they were addressing those concerns of potential impacts in orbit. So perhaps by limiting the number of satellites this basic can launch, we will limit the risk of in orbit collisions. Lauren, thanks very much for your time that is Bloomberg reporter Lauren grush. You can hear our tech and business report weekdays at 1230 here on case CBS. 1236 at kcbs another check of your midday drive with Victor coming up. Join
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"Podcasts. SpaceX has launched its mega Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than three years today. It's hoisting satellites for the military, and then nailing side by side booster landings back near the pad. Thick fog shrouded NASA's Kennedy Space Center is the rocket blasted off at mid morning. The crowd at the launch site couldn't even see the pad three miles away, but heard the roar of the 27 first stage engines. This was SpaceX's fourth flight of a Falcon Heavy. It's currently the most powerful rocket E news. First was back in 2018, it launched SpaceX chief Elon Musk's red Tesla convertible, and the next two heavy launches followed in 2019, lifting some satellites. He Sean, what's the big sports news of the day? Well, there are a bunch of big NFL trades to talk about. We'll have that and plus it's game three of the World Series. They got rained out last night. They're gonna play game three tonight in Philly. All right, we'll hear all about it from Dave Preston. It's two 13. Chris Jenkins is the police chief of culpepper, Virginia. He's been a police officer for 45 years. I've spent a lifetime protecting this community. That's my only agenda. That's why even though I'm a Republican, I support Abigail spanberger. Abigail is a former law enforcement officer who always supports the police. She voted to increase funding to police departments because she knows it increases public safety. Abigail puts country and community over party. Span burger's opponent, yes, Vega was recently caught on tape saying she doubts rape leads to pregnancy. I thought I had seen everything until that. I was shocked. As a former police officer, Vega shino better, and her bashing the FBI and defending those who attacked the capitol is dangerous. I trust Abigail spanberger
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"All started several weeks ago when Musk floated an unsolicited peace proposal that suggested Ukraine just give Crimea to Russia and the war. Needless to say Ukraine said no thank you. And Ukrainian diplomat told him to F off. Musk and SpaceX provide satcom access to Ukraine through its Sterling system for battlefield communications and target acquisition. So after this dust up, Ukraine suddenly started noticing Starlink outages on the battlefield, raising the questions were the outages technical and origin or did Musk order the outages after that came the request for The Pentagon to pay for the use saying SpaceX can't continue to foot the bill for this service. He said it would cost about 400 million a year. So it's left a lot of people asking a lot of new questions about the motivations of the world's richest man. JJ two questions number one does this exemplify the problem with privately owned satellites and what's The Pentagon saying about it? Privately owned satellites are a part of the system the U.S. uses now. The people that run these companies, they are a little bit different from Elon Musk in terms of the way they deal with The Pentagon. And deal with military organizations. They come at it from a different point of view, and they certainly have much better relations. Now, Musk is no stranger to controversy, but this is a matter of life and death. And he's gotten the attention of The Pentagon Sabrina Singh, a deputy press secretary at The Pentagon tool of WTO, these words. She said I can confirm the department has been in communication with SpaceX regarding Sterling. She said, we're working with our partners and allies trying to figure out what's best. But interestingly, she said, there are other, certainly other setcom companies and capabilities out there. There's not just SpaceX. There are other entities we can certainly partner with when it comes to providing Ukraine
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"Welcome back to Bloomberg technology SpaceX launching a manned crew of four on a NASA mission to the International Space Station, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman to travel to space, our Ed ludlow back with all the details. And what exactly happened today? Yeah, so we're deep into a 29 hour journey to the International Space Station. As you said, Nicole Mann, one of the crew members in fact the crew commander becomes the first Native American woman to go to space. So it's a landmark in that respect. She is a member of one of the round valley Indian tribes here in California. But there was also a Russian cosmonaut on board. It's the first time SpaceX is carrying a Russian citizen, a Russian cosmonaut from U.S. soil to the ISS, and as you know, and we've talked about this week, some of the controversial tweets Elon Musk who is the CEO of SpaceX made about the war in Ukraine and about his belief about it negotiated a settlement with Russia that it's going to take them 29 hours to get there, talks me in the next show and we'll see if they made it safely, but this is a kind of routine operation for SpaceX, right? It's their 5th crew mission, their 8th or 9th human flight mission and it takes the crew to 250 miles above the earth. So how does this fit into then the broader mission and the other things that SpaceX is working on? Yeah, I think what SpaceX is really doing in conjunction with NASA is ramping up to go beyond the International Space Station. They're involved in the project more broadly to go to the moon, but that relies on a different company's rocket, Artemis, and as we know, that is behind schedule. We don't expect SLS and Artemis to launch into about mid November. The next kind of big mission for SpaceX in kind of advancing human space freight is Polaris dawn and through the Polaris program that they basically are going to push the boundaries of what they're capable of doing in terms of how long and how often humans can go into space, but a part of that is contingent on the development of starship and what we're really waiting on from SpaceX's news of when we'll get that orbital test flight of starship because we don't know when that will be. And we've talked so much about Tesla and the impact on Tesla with Elon Musk taking over Twitter and less so about SpaceX since it's a private company. But what do we know about how folks at SpaceX feel about Elon Musk taking on another big company? Yeah, I mean, generally speaking, Elon Musk has also been divisive within the ranks at SpaceX, right? There are many employees that do not believe in some of the things he's said and disagree with some of his actions. There is also an element of key man risk. You know, Elon Musk is a hands on manager and executive at SpaceX in much the same way that he is. It Tesla, he often attends some of the key launches. He's often present in Hawthorne, where SpaceX is kind of headquarters and R&D center is. So there is a question. If you takes on Twitter, what does that mean with respect to how he splits his time between those three companies? But as we know, he is a man that spends a lot of time on a private jet, a lot of time on his phone and doesn't sleep as much as the average human. All right, indeed, Ed ludlow. Thank you as always. We'll be watching for the results of this latest mission. And that does it. For this edition of Bloomberg technology coming up Thursday, we've got Google senior vice president of devices and services Rick australo. At the company's made by Google hardware launch
The Tech Guy
"spacex" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"In other news, NASA, as they promised, did announce a request for proposals for a second lunar lander, so as you know for the last year plus, they would work with SpaceX on remaking starship as a lunar lander, which is a bit of a head scratcher for some folks, but it looks like it's going okay. But Blue Origin protested and sued and so on and so on. And that shut down the lunar landing lunar lander program for about 6 months, that was moving forward again as of about 6 months ago. And now NASA said, okay, you guys Blue Origin, you are the complainers, go ahead and line up and submit your proposal. So the whole point of this is a to get some competition going to keep prices down and be so we got a backup of something goes wrong. So as we saw with SpaceX's dragon and the Boeing starliner, which still hasn't flown any astronauts, it's good to have two systems because of one doesn't work. Hopefully the other one will. So that's good. Didn't Jeff Bezos phallic rocket blow up. Yeah, so but that was an uncrewed flight. So that was a backup. That's the one William Shatner was in. system William chatter was using, but it wasn't the booster. But obviously we didn't blow him up. But it did abort. Properly. So that was good. So if there had been people would have been all right? Yeah, so they might have had to make some pains because when you abort basically the capsule says, uh oh, something's going wrong down below. And it fires an escape shoot. Yeah. But it can generate significant Jesus. So it's good. Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be a happy landing, but it'd be a landing. Yes, they're flying experiments and postcards that if you look in the last year's worth of ad Astros, we have a little postcard insert in there. You can fill out a postcard with a drawing or a message and send it to them and they fly it in the capsule and then they mail it back to you and it's stamped flown in space. So bad news. That kind of stuff. But the good thing is, it was like an unintended test of the award. They tested it. Yeah, they tested it. So that's good. So let's hope they have better luck with the lander. So proposals are due in two months, which seems really fast, but they're on a fast track, and they want them to be able to provide whatever they got to provide for lunar landing. By the late 2020s, this is the SpaceX.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Elon Musk Is Clearly Having Fun on Twitter
"Elon Musk is clearly having fun on Twitter. And it's nice. I mean, if you're gonna spend $44 billion to buy the platform, you may as well have a little fun. And I think what we're seeing from Musk is a little bit more self expression than we're used to because I've followed Musk for a while and typically he was he would post things that were going on with SpaceX and things going on with Tesla once in a while he'd offer a comment, but it looks like he's, well, I can't say letting his hair down. He's got a little bit of the king Kim Jong-un style. So he can't really let his hair down. But he's having fun. And he's really showing by example what it means to have free speech. By which I mean that you've got all these people bashing Elon Musk. In fact, here is a comment by someone on Twitter. They say that Elon Musk has invited the world to abuse them verbally on his own property. That's my definition of a gracious and generous host. And Elon Musk has a rye, but very telling response, he goes, freedom of speech means freedom of speech.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"spacex" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Profitable business boosting cash flow monetizing the platform He also brought up his track record at Tesla and SpaceX SpaceX has proof of his success What do you make of that Okay From a business model perspective I believe it goes to a paid subscription model I think they'll have a free piece but ultimately that's probably a key part of the strategy going forward And in terms of some of the job cuts of some of the cost cutting I mean look this is essentially leveraged buyout The only difference is he's leveraging cash flow shares to do it So it's going to create some more uncertainty going forward It's still a long time until this closes But that's why right now for months the easy part relatively was buying Twitter the hard part is going to be fixing it Can he do it Do you think Elon Musk can do it Well I believe it's a whole other animal than it has a space Technology we're talking about social media It's been uphill battle for the last decade And I continue to believe it I think Tesla shareholders believe this is that this is going to be a herculean white challenge from Musk And I think that's why you're seeing the overhang on Tesla shares because you essentially leverage the position and pass it by Twitter and ultimately test the shareholders that are feeling the brunt of this soap opera plan out Soap opera indeed Dan Ives of Wedbush securities Thanks so much for your insights there We'll continue to watch what happens with Twitter Of course we'll be continuing to follow along the latest on Apple and Amazon results and that does it for this edition of Bloomberg technology before we go I just want to say a special goodbye to a very special person on our Bloomberg team Mallory Abel housing who has been here running the show on the floor of Bloomberg technology for ten years Ten years so almost as long as I have she is moving on to her next adventure moving to New York.
The Trish Regan Show
Elon Musk Is One Step Closer to Owning Twitter
"Out. Let's get to Elon Musk because I think it's increasingly likely that this guy gets Twitter as much as it's driving some people in certain circles quite crazy. I detailed yesterday. I went through the SEC filing and I looked at what the actual financing looked like. There is a new development I'm going to get to that just momentarily because it looks like he's creating a holding company that could apparently be for maybe three companies. Anyway, let's talk about the money. He's got 25 and a half $1 billion from banks, led by Morgan Stanley, so Morgan Stanley, who is his adviser, investment banker in this. And they've gone out and worked with other banks to get him the financing 25 and half $1 billion lined up from the banks. Now, part of that is a margin loan against his shares of Tesla, 12 and a half $1 billion. Margin loan against Tesla don't forget Tesla has just been killing and earnings of 81% the other day. Not entirely clear whether that upside can continue only because of the supply chain problems that have been going on. But again, Tesla just really, really doing well proving, I would say once again, the brilliance, the brilliance of Elon Musk. $21 billion is going to come out of his own pocket. He's shelling out 21 billion of his own money for Twitter. This is how much he cares about this project, which makes sense. You look at some of the other things that he's been in and whether it be the EV industry, which has been obviously important to him, whether it's the SpaceX, another industry, clearly clearly very important. In his view, it is important to own Twitter because this is otherwise threatening in his view to democracy. He's described Twitter and did this the other day on a TED Talk as effectively the town square. And so he wants to edge on the side of allowing a lot of speech, a lot of diverse speech as opposed to immediately shutting it down and you know where I stand on that. So I think he's got a really good shot at getting this company. The flip side would be does somebody else say, wait a second, we just don't want him to have it. And so we're going to partner up and get all the money we can and make this absolutely impossible for him to take Twitter out.
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"spacex" Discussed on Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
"It isn't partnership with a company called fleet pool. I would guess just to try to help get their charging stations off the ground. Definitely an interesting model and probably working very well with how residual values have been so far. All right, next just a couple of updates on Giga Texas. We've been seeing model Y stack up in the parking lot. Joe tag Mei and a drone flyer video today spotted a couple of car carriers there now. Obviously it could be for any number of reasons we'll have to see if that continues. And then the other thing on Giga Texas for some reason Bloomberg and other outlets covering this today. Like I said, kind of a slow news day, but like we had talked about Tesla has been granted approval to host the Giga fest event at Giga Texas, but for some reason Bloomberg pointing out that it representative for the Colorado River conservancy has objected to that approval. Unabashedly, political here, saying quote, I urge you to consider rejecting this permit and forcing Tesla to delay their celebration until they start treating the community in eastern Travis county, as more than a workforce for Elon Musk, but rather as neighbors and partners. End quote. Okay, sounds like a great reason to delay that event. Anyway, it's approved, so non story. All right, last couple of things here first, we've got an update from Stellantis and LG they have jointly announced that they're intending to build a $4 billion battery factory in Windsor Canada with construction scheduled to begin later this year and operations plan to launch in the first quarter of 2024. Eventually they plan to have annual battery production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt hours. Next, a quick update from Toyota, they have announced an $826 million stock buyback. It sounds like they completed that today. Toyota not really hurting for cash, but I don't know, maybe during this period of disruption, not the best time to buy back stock, especially given their electric vehicle plans, but also not surprising, and I would expect that would continue. And then last item for today just a couple of SpaceX pricing updates, so SpaceX has raised the price for both monthly service.
Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"spacex" Discussed on Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"But I wonder if that's the default. If you don't do a good job, I'm building a robot. It's going to be sad a lot. Well, we can reprogram robots easier than we can reprogram humans. So I guess if you let it evolve without tinkering, then it might get sad. But you can change the optimization function and have it be a cheerio robot. Like I mentioned with SpaceX, you give a lot of people hope. And a lot of people look up to you millions of people look up to you. If we think about young people in high school, maybe in college, what advice would you give to them about if they want to try to do something big in this world they want to really have a big positive impact? What advice would you give them about their career, maybe about life in general? Try to be useful. You do things that are useful to your fellow human beings to the world. It's very hard to be useful. Very hard. You know, are you contributing more than you consume? Can you try to have a positive net contribution to society? I think that's the thing to aim for. Not to try to be a leader for just for the sake of being a leader or whatever. A lot of times when people a lot have the people you want as leaders, other people who don't want to be leaders. So. If you live a useful life, that is a good life, a life worth having lived. You know, and I'd like to encourage people to use the mental tools of physics and apply them broadly in life. There are the best tools. When you think about education and self education, what do you recommend? So there's the university. There's a self study, there is a hands on sort of finding a company or a place or a set of people that do the thing you're passionate about and joining them as early as possible. There's taking a road trip across Europe for a few years and writing some poetry, which trajectory do you suggest? In terms of learning about how you can become useful, as you mentioned, how you can have the most positive impact. I encourage people.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"spacex" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"What is the, what is the perfect the theoretical perfect product look like? And theoretical perfect part is going to be moving target because as you learn more, the definition of that perfect product will change, because you don't actually know what the perfect part is, but you can successfully approximate a more perfect product. So the thing about it like that and then saying, okay, now what tools and methods, materials, whatever do we need to create in order to get the atoms in that shape. Rarely think about it that way. But it's a powerful tool. I should mention that the brilliant siobhan zoos is hanging. Hanging out with us in case you hear a voice of wisdom from outside from up above. Okay, so let me ask you about Mars. You mentioned it would be great for science to put a base on the moon to do some research. But the truly big leap again in this category of seemingly impossible is to put a human being on Mars. When do you think SpaceX will land a human being at Mars? Best case is about 5 years, worst case tenures. What are the determining factors would you say from an engineering perspective? Or is that not the bottlenecks? You know, it's fundamentally engineering the vehicle. Let me start with the most complex in advanced rocket that's been made by, I don't know, order of magnitude or something like that. It's a lot. It's really next level. So. And the fundamental optimization of Sasha is minimizing cost return to orbit and ultimately cost per ton to the surface of Mars. This may seem like a mercantile objective, but it is actually the thing that needs to be optimized. Like there is a certain cost per ton to the service of Mars, where we can afford to establish a self sustaining city. And then above that we can not afford to do it. So right now, you can fly to Mars for a $1 trillion. No amount of money could get your ticket to Mars. So we need to get that above to get that something that is actually possible at all. But then we don't just want to have with Mars flags and footprints and then not come back for a half century, like we did with the moon. In order to.
Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"spacex" Discussed on Artificial Intelligence (AI Podcast) with Lex Fridman
"If we have a proper science based on the moon, like we have a science based in Antarctica and many other parts of the world. And so that's I think the next big thing we've got to have a serious moon base. And then get people to Mars and get out there and be a space faring civilization. I'll ask you about some of those details, but since you're so busy with the hard engineering challenges of everything that's involved, you still able to marvel at the magic of it all of space travel of every time the rocket goes up, especially when it's a crewed mission. Or you're just so overwhelmed with all the challenges that you have to solve. And actually to add to that, the reason I wanted to ask this question of May 30th, it's been some time so you can look back and think about the impact already. It's already at the time it was an engineering problem maybe. Now it's becoming a historic moment. Like it's a moment that how many moments will be remembered about the 21st century. To me, that or something like that, maybe inspiration for one of those would be remembered as the early steps of a new age of space exploration. Yeah, during the launches itself. I think maybe some people know but a lot of people don't know. I'm actually a chief engineer of SpaceX, so I've signed off on pretty much all the design decisions and so if there's something that goes wrong with that vehicle, it's fundamentally my fault, you know, so. I'm really just thinking about all the things that so when I see the rocket, I see all the things that could go wrong and the things that could be better and the same with the dragon spacecraft. Other people will say, oh, this is a spacecraft or a rocket, and that's this looks really cool. I'm like a read out of this is these are the risks. These are the problems. That's what I see. So not what other people see when they see the product, you know? So let me ask you then to analyze starship in that same way. I know you have you'll talk about in more detail about starship in the near future, perhaps I don't know if you want. But just in that same way, you said you see when you see a when you see a rocket you see the list of risks in that same way you said that starship was a really hard problem. So many ways I can ask this, but if you magically could solve one problem perfectly. One engineering problem perfectly, which one would it be on Sasha? Sorry, on starship. So is it maybe related to the efficiency, the engine, the weight of the different components, the complexity of various things, maybe the controls of the crazy thing has to do to land? No, actually, by far the biggest thing absorbing my time is engine production. Not the design of the engine. I've often said prototypes are easy production is hard..
Lex Fridman Podcast
"spacex" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"If we have a proper science based on the moon, like we have a science based in Antarctica and many other parts of the world. And so that's I think the next big thing we've got to have a serious moon base. And then get people to Mars and get out there and be a space faring civilization. I'll ask you about some of those details, but since you're so busy with the hard engineering challenges of everything that's involved, you still able to marvel at the magic of it all of space travel of every time the rocket goes up, especially when it's a crewed mission. Or you're just so overwhelmed with all the challenges that you have to solve. And actually to add to that, the reason I wanted to ask this question of May 30th, it's been some time so you can look back and think about the impact already. It's already at the time it was an engineering problem maybe. Now it's becoming a historic moment. Like it's a moment that how many moments will be remembered about the 21st century. To me, that or something like that, maybe inspiration for one of those would be remembered as the early steps of a new age of space exploration. Yeah, during the launches itself. I think maybe some people know but a lot of people don't know. I'm actually a chief engineer of SpaceX, so I've signed off on pretty much all the design decisions and so if there's something that goes wrong with that vehicle, it's fundamentally my fault, you know, so. I'm really just thinking about all the things that so when I see the rocket, I see all the things that could go wrong and the things that could be better and the same with the dragon spacecraft. Other people will say, oh, this is a spacecraft or a rocket, and that's this looks really cool. I'm like a read out of this is these are the risks. These are the problems. That's what I see. So not what other people see when they see the product, you know? So let me ask you then to analyze starship in that same way. I know you have you'll talk about in more detail about starship in the near future, perhaps I don't know if you want. But just in that same way, you said you see when you see a when you see a rocket you see the list of risks in that same way you said that starship was a really hard problem. So many ways I can ask this, but if you magically could solve one problem perfectly. One engineering problem perfectly, which one would it be on Sasha? Sorry, on starship. So is it maybe related to the efficiency, the engine, the weight of the different components, the complexity of various things, maybe the controls of the crazy thing has to do to land? No, actually, by far the biggest thing absorbing my time is engine production. Not the design of the engine. I've often said prototypes are easy production is hard..
AP News Radio
NASA delays astronaut moon landing to 2025
"NASA is delaying putting astronauts back on the moon former president Donald Trump had wanted a moon landing by twenty twenty four bring in the glamour back to it because most of the hammer lost everything NASA administrator bill Nelson says the date has been pushed back to twenty twenty five at the earliest because Congress did not provide enough money to develop a landing system fort Artemis moon program this time private companies will be competing for ten or more moon landings by astronauts there are legal issues involving Jeff Bezos's blue origin and eagle on musk SpaceX masses last lunar landing by astronauts happened during Apollo seventeen in nineteen seventy two altogether twelve men explored the moon's surface the last the late gene Cernan I
AP News Radio
Four space station astronauts wrap up 199-day mission
"A SpaceX capsule safely delivered for astronauts back to earth late Monday ending a two hundred day mission at the international space station mission control greeted the astronauts back to planet earth welcome aboard the recovery vessel as recovery boats moved in with spotlights to secure the capsule that splash down into the waters off the coast of Pensacola Florida the homecoming came just eight hours after they left the international space station paving the way for SpaceX to launch for replacements this week the two American Japanese and French astronauts were delayed because of high winds it was not the most comfortable ride back the toilet in their capsule was broken but the astronaut shrugged that off is just one more challenge in their mission hi Jackie
NBC Nightly News
Inside Look at World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket
"Now to our series the new space race in our exclusive inside. Look at something that could revolutionize space travel. It's the world's first three d. printed rocket. Here's jacob board. It wants took thousands of american engineers more than a decade to get something into space. Now this company says it's huge three d. printers can make a rocket in two months. Maybe less we have a fourth generation printer if you haven't talked about publicly yet but it's ten times faster printing than this so instead of building a rocket few slides in sixty days. It'll take six days. Not only can the company make the big parts of a rocket like a nosecone but they can also make all the intricate components of the engines to one zero. The first launch plan for twenty twenty. Two relativity rockets is like a lower budget competitor to spacex carrying satellites for nasa the department of defense and a half dozen private companies at about a quarter of competing launch prices. But with one point three billion in funding it doesn't exactly feel low budget clients. I'm assuming are going to pay you enough to somehow make this all work more than enough to justify it. We make twelve million dollars launch from the customers. We signed up. We've signed up more launches than any other company in history before flying. Ellis doesn't just want to make deliveries into orbit though. I want to put a million people in mars. How far out into space do you think a commercial space industry can take it. It's really about the time line. And i think i liked it very much to back when we found founded the new world with christopher columbus. Yes certainly it'll be government. I dislike the new world was and then it'll transform into commercial. Ancient ambitions built on new
The Adam Carolla Show
1st All-Civilian SpaceX Crew Launches Into Orbit
"There at it. Elon musk space. Company made history wednesday after its first all civilian mission launched from cape canaveral florida. The mission is called inspiration for sent. Four civilians into orbit Got a geo. Scientists a us air force vet a physician's assistant who was also a cancer. Survivor and jared isaac men. He's the billionaire. Who purchased the flight to help raise money for childhood cancer. They'll be flying about one hundred miles higher than the international space station. They'll carry out some experiments you about balance and testing. Their blood will be there for three days. They're expected to splash down in the atlantic on saturday and they're not docking anywhere so they took the like basically the the sun roof off. You usually have that closed because that's dachshunds. So now they have this giant window above them and they're just like us overeating now. Yeah they went up this morning. We sorry yesterday yesterday.
Wall Street Breakfast
Elon Musk’s Spacex Launches First All-Civilian Flight to Orbit
"Elon musk's spacex on wednesday evening launched four civilians toward the deepest orbit. Americans have traveled to in more than a decade a falcon nine rocket with a crew dragon. Space capsule lifted off from launch pad at kennedy space center in florida just after eight. Pm eastern daylight time capsule is slated to return to earth after about three days. Lashing down off the coast of
WSJ What's News
SpaceX Launches All-Civilian Crew on Inspiration4 Mission
"A successful launch last night. For elon musk's spacex and the inspiration for mission from the kennedy space center in florida. Four civilians including billionaire businessman jared isaac men will be orbiting about three hundred sixty miles above the earth. This marks the first time in all civilian crew is traveling to orbit on a mission arranged entirely by private parties. The capsule is slated to return to earth after about three days splashing down off the coast of florida.
Wall Street Breakfast
SpaceX's All-Civilian Inspiration4 Mission Launches Today
"Four. Private citizens are set to launch into orbit. Today in what will be the first mission to space without any professional astronauts on board the all civilian crew will ride to space aboard a rocket and capsule developed by spacex spacecraft is scheduled to launch today atop a reusable falcon nine rocket from cape canaveral florida. The five hour launch window opens at eight. Pm eastern and spacex is planning to broadcast the event live crew dragons capsule will spend three days circling the earth before reentering the atmosphere and splashing down in the atlantic ocean. Off the coast of florida
Geek News Central
"spacex" Discussed on Geek News Central
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Geek News Central
"spacex" Discussed on Geek News Central
"That launch including getting to orbit without blowing it up so Lot of people you know. That's always a possibility and It's a it's that scary moment. They get it to Date get it to orbit and then of course if it works these are these are complicated. Beasts and put stop in space is still even though spacex is doing it on a routine basis is full risk but with that elon. Musk unveils spacex newest drone ship for rocket. Laney's is see now they've been doing some shuffling. And i kind of wondered what was going. On with spacex starlink launches. But what's going on. Is the drone. Fleet used by spacex to catch following rockets added. This third dr- autonomous ship which are calling a short fall of gravitas. Now something more on that a little bit later but he unveiled the newest floating elon. Musk the newest bloating. Rocket lenny paid on twitter along with dramatic video from a drones circuiting ship which is one hundred percent autonomous and can under its own power and does not need a tug. So that's pretty cool. Doesn't need a tugboat. they dishonestly operated. This new ship will be put in place. In florida's support lending launches of balcon heavy bike shipped. Rocket spacex falcon nine. The talking about. It's at some point doing double landings at sea when they do a heavy launch space. X next expected launches from starling though are set sometime in this month from vandenberg space force base in california because they're going to be doing Norden launches and they can basically vanderberg. They can go north over the ocean and not go over land in. It's less risk to humans below. So what's going on is is that Of course. I still love you. The drone ship most people know about which is supported. Atlantic launches since two thousand fifteenth was moved to the pacific coast and a month long journey beginning on june tenth. So this is a pretty big big move there Meanwhile in the atlantic this new drone ship will work in conjunction with just read the instructions which moved to port canaveral from port of los angeles in two thousand nineteen. Now here's something. I didn't know and i'm gonna have to do some look up online. But the other two drones ships like other two drone ships. The new drone ship is an honor is named in honor of work from the late science fiction writer. I and banks. New ships namesake is a fictional spaceship experiencing a significant gravitas shortfall. Whether the other two ships are also named for vessels mentioned in banks culture novels. So i don't know if i read any of his books i may have. I wouldn't have to go look got my scott. My curiosity up but Any of you read any of the book schrimm i-in m banks the late item banks so i don't know if they're space odyssey books what they are but Definitely got my tension In a big way when reading this today and always kind of wondered how they came up the names and really never look for the information but space dot com. Today had the head the juice now this next top law space news today because it hit on something that i'm very very familiar with my time in the navy and doing things they did with the government nasa and northrop grumman are designing a new solid rocket booster it's called an s. l. s. blocked to at a real militaristic name blah. Things called block one block two block. Three it's kind of how they do it. But what's going on in and you may not have known this but the solid rocket booster. That was used to put the space shuttle in orbit or helping get to orbit They built as part of that penalizing of the program to get ready for the s. l. s. They reserved sixteen solid rate solid rocket boosters. Sr bees that would be used with s. l. s. to get eight flights in now. These are built there on the shelf. They're ready they're stored. They're ready to go boom and what's going on here is the s. l. s. booster obsolescence and life extension. What they call a b. o. L. e. program is in the detail design base prior to firing its first ground test development motor in twenty twenty four followed by preliminary design review for the booster that will inaugurate deaths. Ls blocked to vehicle new solid rocket. Motor design retains the form and bit of the current motor incorporates. Modern production technologies composite cases. And a new solid propellant formula nasr's s ls north grummin or working to integrate the new design with sos vehicle and increase performance and gresley mandy levels while minimising impact to design operations of blight hardware and launch process being processing infrastructure. Now here's the thing obsolescence technology obsolescence. You might be shocked. How much money. Technology obsolescent causes. The military causes national. Labs if you think about some of this stuff some of this some of these rockets some this tack is been in aircraft has been around for years and be honest with you. Some of it is old old old but it works but the problem is there's no replacement for it. I remember. I really can't probably go into too much detail but there was a box. Let's say about the size of a lunchbox a traditional lunchbox that performed a relatively simple process and Had some led readouts on. It has power controls for some motors of righty of different things and that box. I had started using that box. Originally back in nineteen eighty three and in the it was an airplane. I flew in and it was very rugged was very didn't break and when it did we turned one in and they took an pull the car or card or two out of it and fix whatever it was and brought it back and it used traditional type of caps and had some seema's level programming but not a lot pretty low.
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"You will not hear a shortage a small gap in the show right now for those of you. That are live. I left the speaker on the other room. And it's driving me crazy. I can hear myself at going. So it's gonna take me about five to ten seconds. Maybe if i can run that fast to go over there and turn it down and come back but I'm gonna turn speaker off. Meanwhile look at those go. Daddy deals that seemed like an eternity. It did to me. I am such an idiot. As part of my checklists. And i missed it tonight. Oh man maybe. I'll leave it in there for the irregular audience to just here and be entertained. A little bit Anyway y'all can laugh at me all right so what's been happening here Well had a busy weekend but it was rainy rainy weekend. It's gonna be a rainy week. They're even predicting thunderstorms tonight. And i'm gonna tell you it's okay. It's it's been a weird. It's like we got our july whether in june and it's it's just kinda odd but it's it's okay and it's still warm so i you know i'm still wearing shorts. That's the important part and I'm actually sporting tonight's more. Five eleven gear absolute insane sale eighty percent off on. This shirt was nine dollars nine bucks so can't can't complain about four of 'em for nine bucks it it you know he it any cost it'll make a good rag someday but anyway Rainy weekend who worked on projects watch a bit of youtube but the battle the issue continues to extreme measures now. I i don't know if i told you guys this on the last show or not but there's this old formula ligament sav that my mom has used for years. I remember this using this as a kid and again if i talked about this on the last show i can't tell you how much of a lifesaver this has been for me over the past couple of weeks. It's called porter's limited salving. Get an amazon little dab of that on a spot the itches. The it goes away and it dries spot out so i've used. We'll see how much of i used in this. Can i bought. I bought three cans of this. I'd have one at the office. So you can see. I've dab a little bit out here and there but About three cans of this one to have here in the office. One in the car and one at home and it stinks. It really stinks the smell coming a mile away but this is the first day have not used it and I'm crossing my fingers. I'm the backside of whatever. I've had and counting the weeks. i'm not unconvinced. I'm not unconvinced that i didn't have shingles or have shingles is just a little different. It's not on the it's usually shingles con- like one site and i've had the shingles vaccine. Both of them both shots. I've had you know shingles is usually one side of the by the other and I'm still not unconvinced at. This isn't what it's been. But we'll see if. I continue to have a little bit. Recruitment today was one of the best days yet in a long time. So keeping my fingers crossed. That is This is going to resolve itself but anyway you guys don't care but this stuff here i'm gonna tell you if if if nothing else for mosquito bites or any other kind of open wound or something that you get You need something to take the pain away. This stuff is is an a miracle product. It really is you know. Old fashioned cost twelve bucks on amazon. You get at ten dollars under website but you got to pay for shipping. So it's all the same basically same to get it on And they have limited payment options on their website. Too so tomorrow. I'm doing a online presentation for a for a radio. Podcast event so beyond from love eleven thirty. That's a paid event and then very soon of course travel starts and Planning another trip back down to columbus for a few days and then out to Nashville at the end of the month. For week there and But anyway that's that's what's going on here shows as normal for the next couple of weeks for sure but Let's go ahead and get into the stack stuff tonight. Crazy it internet speaker down. I just i heard it go. I'm like oh my god how did you. How did you miss that todd. So what's going on in space. I mean a lot richard branson you know. They had their historic flight. First billionaire to beat the beat bazo sir orbit so big news there and And along musk apparently booked a flight on on version so spaceflight. So that was kind of curious. Vanessa is having big challenges with hubble. It's broke and nasa struggling to understand what's going on here and spin out of service june thirteenth now. What they're gonna do is. They're preparing to switch on secondary regulators at control data and power nastase nasa's astrophysics director. Paul hertzen interview a failed piece of hardware and those regulators is likely culprit permits. Everything was some exceptions is fully redundant. Meaning there's a backup fails we can't say for sure. Exactly what is wrong. But we think it's a failure and a component that we're trying to isolate. He said salaciously likely but he acknowledges a small possibility of bickham. Earth isn't possible. A team about a dozen people at nassar's gutter space bite goddard. Space flight center in maryland will test procedures to safely turn on power backup components. Whitchurch said is complicated. Due to the remote nature of the work and hubbell's suite of delicate high tech instruments. Of course we know that nasa no longer has a spacecraft. Disservice hovel which was dispute which was deployed by space shuttle discovery nineteen ninety and and had multiple servicing runs by the space shuttle and we know that the telescope is at three hundred and forty mile high orbit eighty miles higher than the international space station and of course nasa performed a similar to fix the hubble in two thousand eight by switching on backup components then in two thousand nine astronauts installed a new backup equipment on a final shuttle trip. So it's been alone for a while and they say because the exact nature of the province it agency cannot predict how long it will take while some strategy can be accomplished by the telescope's hubble is unique and of course his observation of the clear space sky and They're hoping that how will work in tandem. With the james webb space telescope due to be launched from florida in november but the james webb telescope does not see an optical light it sees an infrared light it will be able to see if you hundred million light years farther than hubble but only in the emperor had spectrum so this is This is going to be devastating to nassif. They can't get this fixed and and scientists alike so probably we're going to see a call at some point for a replacement. Hubble is well. It's taken a long enough to get the james webb telescope ready to launch in a lot of things right on.
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"They can help you so definitely check it out so everybody doing doing while i apologize that there was no show on thursday. Well we really had. I had Some difficulties a little bit of his stomach flu and it really was pretty severe. I had a fever. All the symptoms of i thought i thought i had cove it and But i had a negative test no bid but boy oh boy at every every every symptom that goes along with it but no show on friday. But i'm back in full force today and of course the big news is will be. I will be back in the studio next monday. But there will be no show this coming thursday so Lots of details coming on the podcast insider program that we're going to or the insider podcast gonna be launching in the very near future so lots to share their lots of insider insider information. So if you're not an insider already we want you to think about doing so. But most importantly gin Supported the sponsor first and foremost insider is number two and Being subscribe to this show is obviously a big option are big big commitment. We want you to be subscribed. Got a lot of great content today little bit of a disclaimer. I'm actually recording this show tuesday morning. So that's why maybe some of you didn't see immediately in your feet today so little Little gig on me but he space x plans startling broadband for trucks ships and planes. And we've talked about this. We knew i had said before that this was a big opportunity. for spacex. so spacex said that startling terms could be played on pass will be on trucks. rv's ships an aircraft In won't be on cars because it's too big to beyond cars and They've asked the fcc permission permission to play starlink. Sally broadband to moving vehicles in the application. Scribes the plans for earth stations in motion for automobiles ships and aircraft. Now automobiles being trucks but again they wanna do this. Throughout the united states and territories in the territorial waters of the united states and through international waters worldwide in on.