When we dare to do hard things, that might just change the world, the mark we leave has the opportunity to stretch much further than we may ever get to know.
The story below is likely one of hundreds of similar ones from people that the Made In Space team and I will never hear from.
Today even, at the Smithsonian a young boy in 6th grade came up to us to say he learned about our mission in class and that it had inspired him in math and science and entrepreneurship. His mom had brought him to the museum on his day off from school not knowing that he would meet us.
Here is the message I just received.
Congratulations on having the 1st 3d printer in space AND NOW, having the unit in the Smithsonian!! Back in 2013, I watched your 2012 TED talk and was blown away by the concept of insitu manufacturing and your 3d printer on the ISS!! I was not/am not an engineer, nor a scientist, nor an inventor, nor an entrepreneur. I’m a housewife and have had various jobs over the years; but your vision and logic inspired me to undertake building my own 3d printer from kit parts and open source software and to believe that anyone can become an insitu “manufacturer”…whether in space or in the spare room in my house! I would not have thought it was even possible for me if I hadn’t seen that TED Talk. Thank you, congrats, and keep going!!
The level of humility I feel reading this is beyond words. I am so proud of the team and the honor to have been able to be a part of that with them.
To all my fellow builders, know that what you do truly touches people. It inspires them. You may never hear their stories but your work has a compounding impact on the world in ways that you may never truly understand.
And don’t forget the power of storytelling in your process. You absolutely must use story to help bring everyone else along with you into the future.
The story below is likely one of hundreds of similar ones from people that the Made In Space team and I will never hear from.
Today even, at the Smithsonian a young boy in 6th grade came up to us to say he learned about our mission in class and that it had inspired him in math and science and entrepreneurship. His mom had brought him to the museum on his day off from school not knowing that he would meet us.
Here is the message I just received.
Congratulations on having the 1st 3d printer in space AND NOW, having the unit in the Smithsonian!! Back in 2013, I watched your 2012 TED talk and was blown away by the concept of insitu manufacturing and your 3d printer on the ISS!! I was not/am not an engineer, nor a scientist, nor an inventor, nor an entrepreneur. I’m a housewife and have had various jobs over the years; but your vision and logic inspired me to undertake building my own 3d printer from kit parts and open source software and to believe that anyone can become an insitu “manufacturer”…whether in space or in the spare room in my house! I would not have thought it was even possible for me if I hadn’t seen that TED Talk. Thank you, congrats, and keep going!!
The level of humility I feel reading this is beyond words. I am so proud of the team and the honor to have been able to be a part of that with them.
To all my fellow builders, know that what you do truly touches people. It inspires them. You may never hear their stories but your work has a compounding impact on the world in ways that you may never truly understand.
And don’t forget the power of storytelling in your process. You absolutely must use story to help bring everyone else along with you into the future.
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I shared the above story and a MIS colleague just showed me that we are in history books at schools now.
What???
They literally had to rewrite the history books.
Like, what ever you’re doing, if it has even a small chance of making the world better, please don’t stop doing succeed. And then you change history.
What???
They literally had to rewrite the history books.
Like, what ever you’re doing, if it has even a small chance of making the world better, please don’t stop doing succeed. And then you change history.
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Now that this milestone has passed I will share my next dream…
I want to put CarryAll in the Udvar Hazy.
Just above Space Shuttle Discovery and right next to the Gemini Capsule with the Rogallo paraglider. In college I worked on Discovery for its final flight, which inspired d Earth returning spacecraft. The Gemini Rogallo wing was our inspiration for how to make CarryAll have pinpoint landing accuracy.
I want to put CarryAll in the Udvar Hazy.
Just above Space Shuttle Discovery and right next to the Gemini Capsule with the Rogallo paraglider. In college I worked on Discovery for its final flight, which inspired d Earth returning spacecraft. The Gemini Rogallo wing was our inspiration for how to make CarryAll have pinpoint landing accuracy.
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I’m not crying, you’re crying…
When the Smithsonian asked to exhibit the first 3D printer in space, getting it back from the ISS took 6 years.
That’s when I saw a real problem. So I started @outpostspace to bring things home from space faster.
Today I am proud to share the s At Home at @airandspace.
When the Smithsonian asked to exhibit the first 3D printer in space, getting it back from the ISS took 6 years.
That’s when I saw a real problem. So I started @outpostspace to bring things home from space faster.
Today I am proud to share the s At Home at @airandspace.
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I am feeling honored and grateful to live in a country where I, as a citizen, can walk up the steps of my government and have important meetings that ensure our nations continued prosperity. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅
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Ya know I bet the Overview Effect stops working when lots of people are living and working in space. It works when you are alone out there looking back on the planet where everyone else is. It’s kinda “all the eggs in one basket” thing.
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If O’Neill were alive today and was writing The High Frontier he most certainly would frame it around orbital compute stations rather than power beaming stations. He chose power beaming as it was the hot topic at the time that necessitated large amount of launch and humans in orbit.
It’s interesting that Cowboy Space had started with power beaming and then switched to orbital compute, and that they have from the beginning been framing around The High Frontier.
It’s interesting that Cowboy Space had started with power beaming and then switched to orbital compute, and that they have from the beginning been framing around The High Frontier.
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Timing any market for a startup is tough, but in space it’s much harder. It’s crazy how well positioned Outpost is right now.
Even crazier is that nobody else thought about designing a way to move shipping containers around the world through space.
Caine predicts space-based gistics threats grow insidedefense.com/daily-news/cai…
Even crazier is that nobody else thought about designing a way to move shipping containers around the world through space.
Caine predicts space-based gistics threats grow insidedefense.com/daily-news/cai…
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Wow it looks so cool to disrupt nocturnal life and the natural rhythm of Earth.
Apparently reflect orbital conducted their first ground illumination test and WOW does it look cool.
Location: (near Mount Whitney and Lone Pine, California)Community noteReflect Orbital's test near Mt. Whitney used powerful spotlights mounted on the ground to simulate illumination from its planned orbital reflectors. The company's first satellite has not launched. sfgate.com/tech/article/m… sfchronicle.com/outdoors/artic…
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The most likely reason the Tesla Roadster was created this way is to justify a SpaceX Tesla merger.
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I ran the math on what happens when all the filed megaconstellations reach steady state. Add up everything on paper (SpaceX's million data center sats, Starlink, Blue Origin's Sunrise and TeraWave, Starcloud, Amazon Leo, and China's roughly 250,000 across Guowang, Qianfan, Honghu and the CTC filings) and you get about 1.4 million satellites. Using Starlink V3 at around 2 tons for the SpaceX, Blue and Starcloud birds and 1 ton for everyone else, with a 5 year life, you'd be replacing and deorbiting about 285,000 satellites a year.
That's roughly 520,000 tons a year, or 1,400 tons a day burning up in the upper atmosphere. The paper numbers won't all get built, so I also ran a more realistic case of about 210,000 satellites by the late 2030s. That still comes out to around 73,000 tons a year, or 200 tons a day.
This number is several times the natural meteor dust coming in every day, and it's mostly aluminum instead of rock. Recent work out of USC suggests each satellite leaves behind about 12% of its mass as aluminum oxide particles that hang in the stratosphere for decades and can help eat ozone. At 200 tons a day that's something like 8,800 tons of alumina a year, compared to maybe 17 tons from natural sources.
Nobody has modeled what that does long term, and I think it's the sleeper issue behind the whole debris conversation. Deorbiting solves the orbital problem by moving it into the atmosphere. Bringing hardware home intact is the only answer that solves both, and that was the core reason I started Outpost and designed our product the way that I did.
It is honestly crazy to me that the best answer our industry has come up for the debris is to burn the trash!
Space Debris: Is There a Market? spaceambition.substack.com/p/space-debris…
That's roughly 520,000 tons a year, or 1,400 tons a day burning up in the upper atmosphere. The paper numbers won't all get built, so I also ran a more realistic case of about 210,000 satellites by the late 2030s. That still comes out to around 73,000 tons a year, or 200 tons a day.
This number is several times the natural meteor dust coming in every day, and it's mostly aluminum instead of rock. Recent work out of USC suggests each satellite leaves behind about 12% of its mass as aluminum oxide particles that hang in the stratosphere for decades and can help eat ozone. At 200 tons a day that's something like 8,800 tons of alumina a year, compared to maybe 17 tons from natural sources.
Nobody has modeled what that does long term, and I think it's the sleeper issue behind the whole debris conversation. Deorbiting solves the orbital problem by moving it into the atmosphere. Bringing hardware home intact is the only answer that solves both, and that was the core reason I started Outpost and designed our product the way that I did.
It is honestly crazy to me that the best answer our industry has come up for the debris is to burn the trash!
Space Debris: Is There a Market? spaceambition.substack.com/p/space-debris…
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Jason Dunn retweeted
Cutting-edge pharmaceutical R&D has a new home: Outpost Space Factories.
@exobiosphere is our first announced commercial customer. Their automated lab will take the search for new medicines into orbit and we'll bring the research back home.
outpost.space/news
@exobiosphere is our first announced commercial customer. Their automated lab will take the search for new medicines into orbit and we'll bring the research back home.
outpost.space/news
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There was about 65 years between the Wright brothers first flight and the first Moon landing. By the time @NASA lands an Artemis crew on the Moon almost the exact same number of years will have passed since Apollo 11.
That should piss you off.
That should piss you off.
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At Made In Space, we manufactured optical fiber on the International Space Station, but the hard part was getting it back to Earth to evaluate.
That experience is a big part of why I founded Outpost.
At Off World, I announced Space Factories. This brings more than a decade of work in manufacturing and Earth return together.
We’re building factories that fly inside CarryAll. Companies bring their manufacturing process. We provide the spacecraft, power and thermal systems, manufacturing modules, and the ride home, all as a service.
And we’ll be our own first customer. We plan to manufacture StarFiber, our optical fiber, on the same platform we’re building for other manufacturers.
I want making things in space to become a normal part of doing business on Earth. A company should be able to use the conditions in orbit to make a better product and build a business around it.
We’re building the infrastructure to make that possible.
Thank you to Doug Gorman and @payloadspace for telling the story.
Let’s go!
That experience is a big part of why I founded Outpost.
At Off World, I announced Space Factories. This brings more than a decade of work in manufacturing and Earth return together.
We’re building factories that fly inside CarryAll. Companies bring their manufacturing process. We provide the spacecraft, power and thermal systems, manufacturing modules, and the ride home, all as a service.
And we’ll be our own first customer. We plan to manufacture StarFiber, our optical fiber, on the same platform we’re building for other manufacturers.
I want making things in space to become a normal part of doing business on Earth. A company should be able to use the conditions in orbit to make a better product and build a business around it.
We’re building the infrastructure to make that possible.
Thank you to Doug Gorman and @payloadspace for telling the story.
Let’s go!
@outpostspace, the reentry startup building shipping-container-sized Earth return vehicles, announced a new program today—called Space Factories—that will offer customers a way to manufacture goods in orbit, without needing to build bespoke hardware of their own.
Each of the andardized module that will give in-space manufacturers a way to produce products in space, including pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and advanced crystals, and get them back shortly after production wraps.
Outpost will be the first user of the Space Factory platform. The company plans to use the module to produce StarFiber, its next-gen metal fluoride optical fiber, on a mission NET 2028.
Payload reporter @Douglas__Gorman spoke with members of the Outpost team about how the new manufacturing service will bring new capabilities to the in-orbit economy. Link below.
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Jason Dunn retweeted
Outpost @outpostspace Launches In-Space Manufacturing Service.
Outpost Technologies Corporation, the reentry startup building shipping-container-sized Earth return vehicles, led by Jason Dunn @ImJasonDunn, Amir Blachman @amirblachman, and the team, has announced a new program which will offer customers a way to manufacture goods in orbit, without needing to build bespoke hardware of their own.
Read More At: menlotimes.com/post/outpost-l…
Outpost Technologies Corporation, the reentry startup building shipping-container-sized Earth return vehicles, led by Jason Dunn @ImJasonDunn, Amir Blachman @amirblachman, and the team, has announced a new program which will offer customers a way to manufacture goods in orbit, without needing to build bespoke hardware of their own.
Read More At: menlotimes.com/post/outpost-l…
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When I first got to work with @Pomerantz he was leading the Google Lunar X Prize. It’s great to see him sitting in between two American companies who finally are landing rovers on the Moon.
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I’m going on a panel at @payloadspace Offworld Conf shortly to talk about this…
Exclusive: Outpost Launches In-Space Manufacturing Service payloadspace.com/exclusive-outp…
Exclusive: Outpost Launches In-Space Manufacturing Service payloadspace.com/exclusive-outp…
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