00:58:20 · Philip Johnston, Molly O'Shea, Miguel Rivera
[00:58:20] S1: Damn. Damn. Hey. That's what we got. Pay attention and take good instructions. [00:58:24] S0: Always stay tight. That's right. We do. That's great. Cool. Thank you. [00:58:33] S1: They just lifted the satellite. I don't if you wanna... Maybe it's too late to get footage of that. But if you want, we just... [00:58:38] S0: Yeah. Yeah. Let's go over there. So we just did the welding and... [00:58:42] S1: You crushed it. [00:58:42] S0: I'm a [00:58:43] S1: five. Out of 10. He didn't [00:58:46] S4: say out [00:58:47] S1: of 10. It could be out He [00:58:48] S0: did say out of 10. [00:58:48] S1: Did he? Yes. I thought he said you're a solid five. No, he [00:58:50] S0: said you're a solid five out of 10. [00:58:52] S1: Did he? Okay, okay, okay. [00:58:53] S0: Was like, [00:58:54] S1: damn, that's pretty good. [00:58:58] S0: Okay. But I was I was wondering, like, how does the flow change of how many people are working on the floor versus up in the offices through the different stages and processes of building out Starcloud two?
00:58:58 · Molly O'Shea, Philip Johnston
[00:58:58] S0: Okay. But I was I was wondering, like, how does the flow change of how many people are working on the floor versus up in the offices through the different stages and processes of building out Starcloud two? [00:59:12] S1: Yeah. So actually, most people you can see are both engineering and we have all the engineers make sure that they are hands on with the satellite as well. So half the time these people will be upstairs designing stuff on CAD, the other half the time they're down here fiddling with wires and testing stuff. We also have a technician team. That was Miguel. We got four technicians. Some more coming on soon. Maybe five now. I don't wanna get it wrong. And their job is, like, welding and fabrication, making... Actually producing the satellite. So, yeah, Miguel's team... We... The the whole computer module here is an aluminum box that they in house produced and fabricated. [00:59:56] S0: And I am contributing to that. [00:59:58] S1: You are contributing a huge amount. You need [01:00:02] S0: me, let me know. I can come on. [01:00:03] S1: For your listeners, it is official. You have now done more welding at Starcloud than I have. [01:00:08] S0: Wow. You gotta really visit Miguel. I think he's waiting for you [01:00:13] S1: to Yeah. Yeah. [01:00:13] S0: He'll put in some work. [01:00:15] S1: Yeah. Yeah. [01:00:15] S0: You're not doing enough. Yeah. Bailey, tell us a little bit about yourself. I know we're in front of Starcloud two, something just happened, you guys are testing things. But we'd love to learn more about you and how you contributed.
01:00:15 · Molly O'Shea, Bailey Montaño, Philip Johnston
[01:00:15] S0: You're not doing enough. Yeah. Bailey, tell us a little bit about yourself. I know we're in front of Starcloud two, something just happened, you guys are testing things. But we'd love to learn more about you and how you contributed. [01:00:27] S6: You bet. So I'm the engineering manager here at Starcloud, and what we're doing right now is a leak check of the prop system. So right now, we have a fully fueled electric propulsion system, ion thruster, and we are testing it after Vibe to make sure that we didn't introduce any cracks or other leaks during the Vibe test. [01:00:44] S0: How did you come here? How did you get to Starcloud? [01:00:47] S6: It was a bit of a long journey, so I started my career at SpaceX in aerospace. I spent about four years there. Then I did a couple other side quests in, like, biotech and consumer product design. Those didn't really stick. Moved on to fusion energy, which was really cool. But at the end of that three year stint, I realized I'm a space nerd. I need to be working on space to be happy. And fortunately, living in Seattle, there's a ton of cool companies in the in the area, but Starcloud really stuck out. Back then, they had a different name, and got in contact with the founders super early on, and the rest is history. [01:01:17] S0: What's your favorite thing about Philip? [01:01:23] S1: You can't do that. You can't do that. What do hate about? Yeah. What do you hate about him? What's your [01:01:30] S0: least favorite? We don't say hate. [01:01:32] S1: Love it.
01:01:32 · Philip Johnston, Molly O'Shea, Bailey Montaño
[01:01:32] S1: Love it. [01:01:32] S0: What's your biggest challenge with Philip over here? Does he not give you enough attention? What's going on? Let's work this [01:01:38] S1: out on camera. Could be... [01:01:42] S6: It's a it's a two sided coin or whatever, but, the office is very busy with tours and things like that all the time. [01:01:47] S0: We gotta go. [01:01:48] S1: There you go. There you go. Go. [01:01:50] S0: There There you go. [01:01:51] S1: He's like, I have [01:01:52] S0: to wear [01:01:52] S1: a copy. Was the politest way to tell you to fuck off. [01:01:55] S0: My god. Damn, Bailey. Give me the mic. [01:01:58] S1: Yeah. Oh, [01:02:00] S0: that's funny. Okay. So what are you most looking forward to? What is your favorite part of the process? [01:02:07] S6: I think the next thing I'm looking forward to most is obviously the launch for sure. I'm gonna be tremendously proud of this, like a lot of blood, sweat, and literal tears into this thing. As far as the whole design process goes, I would say kind of the test is my favorite part. That's where the rubber really hits the road. So this recent vibration test was a really big one. And then the cooling system was another big one where back when we were in Colorado not long ago, that was our first, like, full up integrated test of the whole cooling system, which was kind of like my baby from day one. So it was really cool to see that up and running too.
01:02:07 · Bailey Montaño, Philip Johnston, Molly O'Shea
[01:02:07] S6: I think the next thing I'm looking forward to most is obviously the launch for sure. I'm gonna be tremendously proud of this, like a lot of blood, sweat, and literal tears into this thing. As far as the whole design process goes, I would say kind of the test is my favorite part. That's where the rubber really hits the road. So this recent vibration test was a really big one. And then the cooling system was another big one where back when we were in Colorado not long ago, that was our first, like, full up integrated test of the whole cooling system, which was kind of like my baby from day one. So it was really cool to see that up and running too. [01:02:39] S1: So everybody always asks about what the hardest thing about Starcloud is, and it's the thermal system, these radiators in particular. Bailey was responsible for designing and fabricating the radiators. And also, Bailey is responsible for this satellite being here. So we had... In the end state, we only had three weeks to do the final assembly of all of the the satellite, and Bailey went down and basically built that bus by scratch... From scratch. So... [01:03:01] S0: Damn. It was fun. Where'd you build it? [01:03:03] S6: In Colorado, in our bus provider's office. [01:03:06] S0: Oh my god. Alright. So we're just leaving [01:03:08] S1: So you're... [01:03:09] S0: The main facility. We're now going over here. [01:03:11] S1: Yeah. We're gonna go to... [01:03:12] S0: You're buying up the entire
01:03:12 · Molly O'Shea, Philip Johnston
[01:03:12] S0: You're buying up the entire [01:03:14] S1: We're building a bit of a campus here. This is definitely the place where you need to be to to build AI satellites, basically, SI satellites. Yeah. So we've got now this middle section that we are... We have now where this will come online in November, and then we have access to the third one in February next year. Mhmm. And so this enables us to scale manufacturing for Starcloud three. And the reason we need so much space... One of the reasons is you have a 100 meter, almost 400 foot deployables on Starcloud three that we need to test test the mechanisms on. But also, to manufacture something like 88,000, you know, we're gonna need a way bigger facility. [01:03:57] S0: Just think Brett's gonna check. [01:03:58] S1: I'm so sorry. It's fine. It's fine. [01:04:01] S0: Manufacture 88,000. [01:04:03] S1: Yeah. Yeah. To manufacture 80,000, we're gonna need a whole bunch more space. [01:04:07] S0: So how many do you think you'll be able to produce a day? [01:04:11] S1: So we'll be up to a 100 a week from what we've got here. So 10 a day or more than 10 a day after you. So this is one of the three spaces. And so we've got about a 100,000 square foot that we can fit out for manufacturing. So we're gonna remove this wall and we'll remove that wall, and then that enables us to... This is huge. [01:04:35] S0: Oh my god. [01:04:36] S1: Yeah. It's gonna be it's gonna be quite a sight to behold when this is up front. [01:04:39] S0: You should throw a Halloween party in here with