Michael Madrid
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satellite servicing expediter @StarfishSpace , coffee bean purveyor @ProjectBuna . receipts from the navy and a few nonprofits. let it rip
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incredibly exciting to finally share more details on what this $37.5M from the Space Force really means... esp as it's the culmination of over 625 days of blood sweat & tears
thanks
@sandra_i_erwin
for sharing the story; some personal thoughts in thread 🧵
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we all know the PayPal mafia
and I enjoyed
@bizcarson
’s piece earlier this year on the Palantir Pack
but what about the wave of founders who have been coming out of SpaceX? (1/8)
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varda engineers with the timeline full of OSIRIS-REx capsule’s landing in utah
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me trying to evade cold inbound sales from recruiting and consulting firms after a major contract win announcement
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"omg I can't believe we have a Chinese spy balloon floating over us that's so scary omg"
*as they watch clips of it via tiktok*
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let’s, and i cannot emphasize this enough, fcking go
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gm, it's a great day to build: WE STOPPED THE SPIN
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Otter Pup is literally front & center in this shot of
@SpaceX
Transporter-8
Orbiter SN3 looking good
@launcher
, thanks for the ride on the ride
And is that
@VardaSpace
as our next-door neighbor to the left,
@zebulgar
?
Let’s go to space!!!
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you buy brand new monitors for the office, we trawl government auctions and get them for less than $5 a piece, we are not the same
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OPERATORS WANTED
for hazardous journey (it's a startup), small wages (but big equity)
bitter cold, long months of complete darkness (because it's tech for space)
constant danger (again, it's a startup), safe return (exit) doubtful
HONOR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS
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USSF, October 2023: hey look at our chill first official painting, nbd
USSF, November 2023: launches X-37B on a Falcon Heavy for the first time, to “new orbital regimes”
👀
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You need to be sci-fi maxxing.
You need to be reading Isaac Asimov, Cixin Liu, Neal Stephenson. You need to be dreaming of electric sheep and the Sprawl. Envisioning the Rocinante and the Hail Mary. Hanging posters of Wade Watts and Ender Wiggin.
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gm it’s a great day to build (the arsenal of democracy)
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I believe this feeling is referred to as:
WE’RE SO BACK
Update on the Otter Pup Mission
Starfish is excited to announce the successful stabilization of Otter Pup on-orbit, less than two months after the satellite was deployed rotating at over 330 degrees per second. Read our full update for more on this incredible engineering effort:
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here’s to an especially great week of building real things with the best people
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@Axiom_Space
Do we know – is
@Axiom_Space
the new provider, or are they securing a new provider to supply suits for the commercial space station?
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getting progressively gundo-pilled every minute i stand here in the sun
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gm, it's a great day to build
.
@StarfishSpace
wins NASA contract to look into an ambitious demonstration of orbital debris inspection, even as it works to get its first space mission back on track:
#Otter
+
#OtterPup
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(left) our senior software engineer running monte carlo sims in the cloud
(right) me pitching the dod on a spacecraft digital twin
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good morning, it is a great day to build
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“What are you prepared to dismantle? What are you prepared to build?”
@Sifill_LDF
@chrislhayes
#WITHpod
#podcast
#vote
#votingrights
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if you want to service satellites launched 5, 10, 15+ years ago
then you need to dock with unprepared surfaces in space
Nautilus is our solution, and the first version goes to orbit in <1 week
meanwhile NASA is supporting our R&D to push the envelope of this tech even further:
We're honored to receive another NASA SBIR award, this time for Nautilus!
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when i say we build otters for satellites, this is what i mean
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couldn't be in Newport for the ceremony today, but excited to have now officially graduated from
@NavalWarCollege
master's degree, ✅
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I usually listen to podcasts at ~1.5x etc
but any time I listen to one with
@zebulgar
it’s 1x because he’s already actually thinking & talking that fast lol
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cant tweet it, but a picture came in from vandenberg today
the satellites are now mated to the rocket
the "remove before flight" tags have actually been removed
LFG
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the sincerest of thanks to the SpaceX alum who made time as busy founders to talk with us
thanks to Jeff for the co-authoring opportunity and for putting up with my use of Notion, lol
and thank you for reading, please share your own thoughts or feedback!
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if all goes according to plan
today may be the last day ever that
@StarfishSpace
hasn’t launched its own satellite
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“i hope this email finds you well”
how your email finds me:
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gm, it’s a great day to build…
…the future of on-orbit services! I’m excited to be joining
@starfish_space
for the next 4 months while I finish transitioning out of the Navy. I’ve been working part-time with the team for the past month and am pumped to ramp it up to full-time!
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when you can’t travel to hq for your company’s annual party, so they uber eats the same kind of dinner (italian) to your family across the country ❤️
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psa: we’re no longer building otters, we’re building OTHER satellite servicing vehicles
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we ended up with so much material, we had to split the piece in two (h/t to one of our interviewees for the suggestion!)
in Part 1 we set the stage, and spotlight twelve companies/founders as examples of what we’re talking about:
a next generation of builders at scale
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truly never gets old, answering the “so where do you work” question with:
“at a space startup”
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me on the flight last night: opens laptop
window seat: do you work at Starfish??
that's a first!
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[looking at consumer products] honestly the fact that your random device has built-in Bluetooth and a smartphone app… is detracting and a net negative for me at this point, not a desirable feature
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possibly best compliment I receive this year:
“recently stumbled upon American Dynamism… it seems like every time I find a cool company/startup, and do some research into the founder, your name is consistently someone they interact with”
#blessed
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if you visit the Astranis HQ, you take a picture here 🇺🇸 I don’t make the rules
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gm, it’s a great day to build.
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funny thing about aerospace startups
the startup in you sees “a couple months out” as sooo far away
but the aerospace in you sees “two years out” as RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
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I just explained several current space startups to someone outside the sector (what they do in a few words, as well as who their primary customers are)
...and it strikes me how fantastical (and how awesome) what I'm saying, sounds. Like I'm spouting science fiction lol
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routinely boggles my mind:
that humans spend years & millions of $ building exquisite machines
yeet them into space
and then just... hope they work.
never touch them again... never fix them or upgrade them... never even see them up close, really.
but that's satellites for ya
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highly recommend working on something nonstop for over 540 days
and then winning
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rt if you too believe that the future will be better than the past
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my favorite part of the $CAR auction might just be what happens when you answer the disclaimer with the left hand option
@SHL0MS
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very excited to be cooking with gas here in the new apartment
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working at a startup has reinforced my optimistic personality but also simultaneously taught me to be deeply skeptical
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@pronounced_kyle
@SpaceX
@VardaSpace
@StarfishSpace
ah yes, I forgot PopeSat is on this launch too!!
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my cousin (mech e in college) just called; he's suddenly interested in space, joined school's rocket club and is building solid & liquid rockets, etc.
30min phone crash course on the new space industry and all its opportunities
i'm inordinately stoked that he's now into space!
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today:
our fifth-ever skillbridge intern signed his offer to stay on full-time
our sixth skillbridge intern started her first day
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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was surprised this didn’t exist already, so created it:
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controversial opinion: I like looking up at the night sky and seeing satellites
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when you open your email in the morning but the day’s
@payloadspace
newsletter hasn’t dropped yet because you’re on east coast time
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if you have a digital twin but not the real thing, my friend that's not a digital twin that's just a simulation
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resume length often seems inversely related to actual accomplishment
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#Oppenheimer
tickets acquired: IMAX, opening night, with a crew
the only showing with decent seats still available was at 10:30pm, lol
so we're not leaving the theater until the next morning, lfg
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who wants to see a pic of our otter pup satellite about to get baked
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flour tortillas >>> corn tortillas, I said what I said
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as of 5 min ago,
there have been no fewer than four different rockets launched to space today
by four separate commercial companies
this is the new space age: LFG!!
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good evening, it’s been a great day to build (and to finally meet
@llcrabbie
&
@IanCinnamon
in person!)
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