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An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi

Episode Ep 401 July 30, 2018 2 hr 4 min

An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi

From The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

If you can't tell from the picture, Brent and Bryce are twins
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They both went to RIT and ended up working together at SpaceX
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They worked on AMSAT for their senior project
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Fox series cube sats
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AMSAT will make a plugin module
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Elona (sp?) grants
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1U cubesats
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AO40 - 600 kg satellite
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MPPT on github
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This actually was an analog computer to cut down on components that are susceptible to cosmic rays.
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It relies on feed forward
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Stateless design
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AO91
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AO92 - just under a year
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K2GEXT
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Balloon hipster
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For their balloon project, they prioritized reliability
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Used nail polish as conformal coat
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Fell through a thunderstorm
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Joined SpaceX mid-2013
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Around the time of C2 - First dragon mission
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1000 people when they joined
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F921 - upgraded version. This is the one outside of SpaceX as a monument.
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Engineering as an action sport
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Watching conspiracy videos about spacex
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Burning out
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What electronics are involved
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Rio Team
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Consumer parts vs aerospace parts
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Shaun from Planet episode
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MIL standard 1540
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NASA derating
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Guidance, nav, control
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Fault recovery
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Sensing the environment
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Pyrotechnics
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Frangible bolts
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RF telemtry
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Space race 3.0
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Lock step (is having 2 processors normally)
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Voting is having 3 systems
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Curiosity goes into safe mode
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Designing circuits at a very low level
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Understanding every way a circuit that is going to fail
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As engineers they're really paranoid now
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SMPS failure
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What is the margin of the components
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Derating = overspec'ing
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No one complains when it's lighter
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FaradayRF
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900 MHz digital radio
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Trying to make a platform for people to build on
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Delay tolerant network
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PSK31, FT8
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ISM band
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Article about differences
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APRS
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National projects
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SDR vs Faraday
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CC430 radio
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10-100kBaud
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goTenna
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TUN tap
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FaradayRF GitHub
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Relativity space in LA
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Aeon 1 engine
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Careers page
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Autonomous airplanes
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Richard Branson quote
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@kb1lqd
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@kb1lqc
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@relativityspace
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