00:19:16 · S1, Brian Taylor
[00:19:16] S1: An actual last question. I realized I'd never ask you. Your favorite SpaceX story from your time there? [00:19:22] S0: Oh, man. There's a lot of really good ones. So when we launched the first 60 Starlink satellites, there was issues with some of the power generation system. And not to go into into those details, but I had to figure out how to test an entire flight solar array on the ground for coming out of eclipse. When it's really cold and it gets blasted by the sun, that was the specific conditions that were causing a problem. And I had to do it in three weeks. And so I got probably four or five pallets of halogen lights from Home Depot, put those in a shipping container with a solar array, cooled it down with gaseous nitrogen, started off as liquid, got it down to maybe, like, negative ADC, and then we blast on the lights. And that would simulate kind of coming out of a eclipse. And that's something a 100 or $200,000 solar array simulator can't actually do. Like, those transients and that speed with which that power goes through the solar array, they can't do that. And so we had to do it with liquid nitrogen and and Home Depot halogen lights, and we had to do it in, like, three weeks to kinda save the 60 satellites that were in space. So that was probably one of my favorites. There's plenty of others I can tell you, you know, after the show. [00:20:33] S1: Amazing. Brian, thank you so much. And where should we send people if they wanna follow along with you in this journey?
00:20:33 · S1, Brian Taylor
[00:20:33] S1: Amazing. Brian, thank you so much. And where should we send people if they wanna follow along with you in this journey? [00:20:37] S0: Yeah. Absolutely. So our website is the best place, www.luxeturna.com. We've got a couple of job postings right now, and we've got quite a few more that are gonna pop up through the end of this year. So we're hiring a lot of experienced engineers. Like we say, if you have hardware or software in space that is working and you've been through a failure investigation, we really wanna talk to you. Those are the people that kind of know their hardware the best. So, yeah, please go there or reach out to me directly. We would love to chat. [00:21:06] S1: Amazing. Brian, thanks so [00:21:07] S0: much. Thanks. [00:21:11] S1: Well, that's all for today's episode of BUILDERS brought to you by the Frontlines. If you want more amazing content like this, visit frontlines.io, where you'll find a library of more than 1,500 interviews with founders, marketers, and other GTM leaders where we unpack the tactical lessons from their journey. And of course, as always, if you do wanna launch your own podcast, we'd love to have a conversation with you. Visit frontlines.iopodcastsasaservice. Mention that you listen, mention you love the show, and we'll give you a 10 discount. Thanks for listening. We'll catch you on the next episode.