the Moon, Mars, and anywhere else in the solar system. On Saturday, September 28 at our launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk provided an update on the design and development of Starship.
To avoid that, the Crew Dragon and “a lot of the pieces of hardware that are flying in the vehicle went through basically a bake-out before we will ever go into space,” said Anna Menon, a lead space operations engineer at SpaceX who is serving as the crew’s medical officer. “Wha...
The four private astronauts of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission have reached their launch pad at NASA's Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center after a brief walkout of the company's nearby operations building, where they showed off their new spacesuits designed for both launch and the brief spac...
Rounding out the team are mission pilot Scott Poteet, a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel; mission specialist Sarah Gillis, a leadspaceoperations engineer at SpaceX; and mission specialist and medical officer Anna Menon, also a lead space operations engineer at SpaceX. The quartet underwent ...
Sarah Gillis (Mission Specialist): SpaceX Lead Space Operations EngineerAnna Menon (Mission Specialist & Medical Officer): SpaceX Lead SpaceOperations EngineerCollaboration: The mission involves collaboration with various research institutions and organizations, including TRISH, BioServe Space Technologies, ...
"We were able to confirm 77 of the 82 deployments," SpaceX operations engineer Sivan Bharadvaj said during live commentary. "Because the spacecraft on this mission are smallsats, and because some of them deploy in close proximity to another, it can be difficult for us to confirm the deploy...
• SpaceX called off an attempt to get the eighth test flight of Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed, off the ground. • It’s not yet clear when SpaceX will make another launch attempt. • During the last Starship test run in January, the spacecraft explod...
Senior Launch Technician Cameron County, TX What is the best part of working at the company? insperational and rewarding confindence What is the most stressful part about working at the company? no time for family and yourself What is the work environment and culture like at the company?.....
During the broadcast of SpaceX’s November test launch, Flight 6, SpaceX engineers Jessie Anderson and Kate Tice said the company was finishing construction of a 1 million-square-foot “Starfactory” in South Texas. The goal for that structure is to allow the company to manufacture “hundreds...
Regulators launch mishap investigation into Flight 8 incident From CNN's Jackie Wattles and Pete Muntean The Federal Aviation Administration also announced that it is requiring SpaceX “to perform amishap investigationinto the loss of the Starship vehicle during launch operations on March 6.” ...