Sourcery
00:25:29 · Molly O'Shea, S0
[00:25:29] S1: I think was SpaceX, Starlink that just put out... They wanna try to open source the data for anti collision avoidance? [00:25:37] S0: Yes. Satellite... Space domain awareness data. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that's really cool. Early on... I mean, we we have a lot more objects in space. Yeah. We wanna stop collisions. We work very collaboratively with the other players. The biggest challenge, though, is less the satellites. It's all the space debris. So we've got about, of order, 10,000 satellites operating in space, but we've got of order a 100,000,000 space debris objects. So objects that were former satellites that blew apart, satellites that crashed, satellites that were deliberately taken out by anti satellite weapons from the ground, and those things caused one satellite to pop into tens of thousands of bits. Okay. Let's carry on. [00:26:22] S1: What a wild wild problem. [00:26:25] S0: It is. It's wild wild space. [00:26:27] S1: Wild wild space. Great documentary by Ashley Vance, which you were in, by the way. Small plug. [00:26:33] S0: It's cool. Right? It's so good. Have you seen it? [00:26:35] S1: Yes. I have. Yeah. Yeah. Before we went to Rocket Lab, I I watched that, and Yeah. Their little fight between him and I think Who I was it? [00:26:43] S0: Chris Kemp. It's a master of game. [00:26:44] S1: Kemp. It was just hilarious. [00:26:46] S0: Yeah. Quite some characters, those guys. Okay. We can take all [00:26:50] S1: this Okay. We don't need these
00:26:50 · Molly O'Shea, S0
[00:26:50] S1: this Okay. We don't need these [00:26:52] S0: straight We do not need this for anything else. By the way, this is a post of, methane tracking activities of the Tanager spacecraft. So this is a plume of gas. By the way, when we enable them to be turned off Uh-huh. That... Because we just tell the gas company, hey. You got a big freaking great leak on your pipeline. Uh-huh. Turning this one off is the equivalent of taking a couple of 100,000 cars off the road from a pollution standpoint. [00:27:20] S1: Oh my god. [00:27:21] S0: So one leak. [00:27:22] S1: Oh, when we go to the AI demo later, is it possible to see the difference of COVID versus non COVID? You know, when everything was off the world? [00:27:30] S0: We can have [00:27:30] S1: a look. Okay. [00:27:31] S0: We can ask the AIs. Let's ask the AIs. [00:27:34] S1: Does that mean doctor a a bird too? [00:27:36] S0: It should do. It's a good idea. Okay. I'm gonna steal that. So here, we have some of our testing facilities. So here, this is this is a a system that tests this... The the shock when you... When two stages of the rocket separate. So basically, we put our satellite here, we bring this up, and we let this hammer smack down, and it gives us 200 g ish shock load. It's... Isn't this in a sound barrier room? Well, I guess people put earplugs in. [00:28:10] S1: Okay.
00:28:10 · Molly O'Shea, S0
[00:28:10] S1: Okay. [00:28:10] S0: No. They're they're earplugs. You haven't got any, but they're up there. And then this is a vibration table. So this vibrates to simulate the launch environment. Yeah. So we put our satellite on there, vibrate the shit out of it, and hopefully nothing falls apart. [00:28:25] S1: What have been the biggest failures? [00:28:28] S0: Well, we've had telescopes break. Okay. We have to redesign it. We've had... [00:28:33] S1: What, like, what is the most delicate part of your satellite? [00:28:36] S0: Well, it's probably the telescope. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. So it's... Because they're... Again, just think about this. Like, the optics of that mustn't move by more than a fraction of a wavelength. The wavelength is of order less than a micron, so a thousandth of a millimeter. So the telescope to components, the main optics, must move by more than a thousandth of a millimeter. Otherwise, it's out of focus. Well, that's really annoying because that's a very small distance. And again, even when it's in space, normally, if you just made the telescope out of aluminium like this, it would expand and contract so much that the telescope wouldn't work when it's too hot or too cold because it would be totally out of focus. So we have to design it out of special materials, compensate for that expansion and contraction because of the thermal loads. So that's the kind of thing that's really difficult. And now I can actually show you where we test that thermal loads. [00:29:30] S1: How many satellites do you go up end up having errors? Like what has been the
00:29:30 · Molly O'Shea, S0, Molly O'Shea
[00:29:30] S1: How many satellites do you go up end up having errors? Like what has been the [00:29:35] S0: Error rate? Yeah. So firstly, of all 700 satellites, if the launch worked and delivered us into orbit, our satellites have turned on and worked. Okay. We have had some that were out of focus. We have had a few problems where a solar panel didn't deploy, a reaction wheel stopped working early, things like this. But generally, we've got utility out of a 100% of our satellites, which I actually think is a problem. And I keep on telling folks Why? Well, because it means we're not pushing the envelope enough. If we have a 100% success Yeah. It means we haven't pushed it hard enough. And maybe we should have gotten the latest sensor or something that would improve it. Yeah. So we wanna push the the barriers. Thanks for your help. Alright. What's this? We got a little vacuum chamber here. What are you putting in there? That's a crock pot. It's the what? [00:30:29] S1: Crock pot? It's dripping in. [00:30:31] S0: What is that? That's for Pelican? [00:30:33] S2: Yeah. For the reaction wheels. [00:30:34] S0: Oh, it's for the reaction wheels. Ah, cool. So you're testing that subsystem. Mhmm. Cool. [00:30:41] S1: What's that? Three d printers? [00:30:43] S0: Yeah. Three d printer is fine. Wow. Normal normal stuff. But those are the three main tests. The shock, the vibe, and the thermal back. Let's go here. By the way, I like this sign. [00:30:58] S1: Oh, you actually have this? [00:31:00] S0: Yeah. [00:31:01] S1: You know how many people talk about this, but they don't actually
00:31:01 · Molly O'Shea, S0, Molly O'Shea
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00:32:38 · Molly O'Shea, S0
[00:32:38] S1: It's smaller. [00:32:39] S0: But that's a scale down. But this is our AI interface. So basically, this is our imagery of the whole world. You can zoom in any way you want to zoom in on. You can go through time and see it as it changes over time. I mean, we go up further north, if we go down to December, it's going to be snowier. So you can see all the snow cover. And, but the coolest thing is that we have so we have 3,000 layers of images going back ten years, so pretty much every day for ten years. [00:33:14] S1: Zoom in as far as you can. Let's see what [00:33:16] S0: Well, we're mean, what do want have? But the coolest thing before we do that is not only that we can zoom in, it's that we can ask it questions. [00:33:23] S1: Mhmm.