Whistleblower update: Does this leak prove SpaceX is dangerous?
Human beings have always been fascinated by travel. Not long ago (on the cosmic calendar) we were only prisoners of Earth, always looking up at the night sky, having no idea what the stars, moon, and comets were so we made up unique stories about them. Even in those ancient times, we were captivated by the natural bounds of our existence.
We’ve always imagined ourselves driving past Earth one day, perhaps lounge in the stars. Earth is beautiful but there are far too many other places out there and technology is growing. One day, we will leave our home but today the idea seems to be best at bringing controversy. Younger generations are well aware of the climate change problem.
The more we learn about the climate, the more we feel, there’s far too much to do on Earth right now. Instead of racing to be the first to leave Earth, shouldn’t billionaires use their advantages to solve the climate change problem? SpaceX has given many adventurous minds hope but is it really what we think it is? We have an update for you!
(A few years from now, we may be able to book a stay in a space hotel!)
SpaceX
“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great 一 and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,” says Elon Musk, the CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX.
They’re an aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services, and communications company situated in Hawthorne, California though they’re moving to Texas. Their mission is clear to the public but their latest update involves a whistleblower.
Whistleblower
According to the most recent update, engineers at SpaceX used to manually input their data about rocket part tests spreadsheets which nobody trusted, says a former employee. Karan Talati joined the iconic space exploration company back in 2013, as a manufacturing engineer.
Talati told Insider that he found manual rather than automated procedures for testing rocket parts, which made the process “very slow.” The whistleblower added that back then, “engineers would manually log rocket part test data into spreadsheets before getting other engineers to verify its accuracy 一 so nobody trusted the spreadsheets as having up-to-date data.”
According to the whistleblower, this matters because processes ameliorating the design and altering the thickness of a rocket part at SpaceX “came to a standstill” due to “very controlled and rigid” processes such as these, said the whistleblower.
“Information bottlenecks”
“Having tens of thousands of parts per rocket meant that run-of-the-mill tests could sometimes take up to three hours,” says Talati. Part of his job at SpaceX implemented automating “information bottlenecks” such as these to greatly reduce testing times. SpaceX has not responded to Insider’s request for comment.
He calls SpaceX “a lot of work and a lot of intensity and that intense approach is something that’s with me forever.” Prior to the update, Talati left the company in 2016 having worked in machine learning before co–founding First Resonance, a software developer. “First Resonance was born out of “a lot of experience and pain” amid working in engineering.
The whistleblower adds that SpaceX came with many pros which included “. . . resources, good communication on the factory floor, and accepting failure.” He plans on adding these qualities to First Resonance.
First Resonance composes an operating system for factories aiming to assist employees, particularly engineers. His ambition is to “collaborate and speed up decision making.”
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