He's Building Autonomous Space Factories | Jason Dunn, Outpost

[@zeeylo]

Oh nice! I got to support their team last year - such good people and a very interesting mission

[@1stPrinciplesFM]

Such good people. Jason is an incredible combination of smart and kind. And tenacious

[@GoofieDoofus]

Very excited to listen to this one, my thesis research is in in-space assembly and manufacturing!

[@1stPrinciplesFM]

Heck yeah. Curious to hear what you think

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

I wish he had talked more about how imparting a spin as part of the descent would affect the trajectory.

[@1stPrinciplesFM]

@@christopherd.winnan8701 I actually don't have an intuition for how that would help/hurt. Seems like a hurt, makes control more complex

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

@@1stPrinciplesFM _ I too wish he had talked more about this instead of just teasing the concept and leaving us hanging...

[@AndrewMeyer]

Interesting idea... but if you're going to be launching these paraglider capsules on Starship, what's the advantage of transporting the downmass in your vehicle rather than just putting it directly in Starship's cargo bay? It's going to be heading back to the launch site either way. Is this just if you want a more flexible landing location?

[@1stPrinciplesFM]

@@AndrewMeyer a starship is definitely not tested/optimized for bringing payloads down

[@AndrewMeyer]

@1stPrinciplesFM Well, it's technically not tested for bringing payloads up either; they're still working on that. But landing with a payload is definitely part of what Starship is designed for. (On Mars, the Moon, and Earth.) I guess if you have more downmass than upmass you could put the downmass in both these vehicles *and* the empty payload bay of the Starship they launched on? 🤔 I feel like it'll be a while before Earth's import mass exceeds its export mass though...

[@mhxxd4]

How big is this warehouse/office?

[@1stPrinciplesFM]

153,000 sq ft haha