Higher. Further. Faster.
Dec. 17th, 2018 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nakkiMore and more work is getting dumped on my plate as we sign up more customers.
I went out to Colorado last week on a 24hr turn around to talk to our spacecraft manufacturer. It was a really great experience. They started at about the same time as we did at previous-space-startup, but instead of squandering their resources trying to manage multiple expensive offices around the world, they focused all their manufacturing in one location and have built out a fantastic microsat facility. I was suuuuuuper jelly of their vacuum chamber which looked much nicer than the one I designed/built at previous-space-startup.
We've signed a number of customers, and I am the payload manager for all of them which is stressing me out. So much communication with so many people. I feel like I have a permanent headache.
Our launch in Q1 2020 is a go. WHich is just.... just stupid crazy. We're trying to shorten every aspect of the spacecraft building timeline to 13months and it's going to be intense. I'm the master of the schedule and I'm already freaking out about how we are going to hit milestones (and how am I going to fit comic con and rollercon vacations in during the peak assembly months)
But despite all the stress this is the most excited I've been about space projects since the early days of previous-space-startup: working 100 hr weeks in the clean room. Best part about this job: no clean room and no 100 weeks! Well, for now. Both of those things may change when we hit assembly and need all hands on deck. And as the only person on the team with actual assembly and AIT experience that means MY hands on deck. It'll be really weird to have to where a management hat and also possibly an AIT tech hat at the same time.
People will be trickling out of the office starting tomorrow, but I'm probably going to stick around til Friday and try to build a robust schedule for 2019. Then I get a week to myself to work on some cosplay. Time to knock out the Tattoine Poncho. I've got most of the embroidery files ready to go, just need to dye the fabric and test out the machine tension.
I went out to Colorado last week on a 24hr turn around to talk to our spacecraft manufacturer. It was a really great experience. They started at about the same time as we did at previous-space-startup, but instead of squandering their resources trying to manage multiple expensive offices around the world, they focused all their manufacturing in one location and have built out a fantastic microsat facility. I was suuuuuuper jelly of their vacuum chamber which looked much nicer than the one I designed/built at previous-space-startup.
We've signed a number of customers, and I am the payload manager for all of them which is stressing me out. So much communication with so many people. I feel like I have a permanent headache.
Our launch in Q1 2020 is a go. WHich is just.... just stupid crazy. We're trying to shorten every aspect of the spacecraft building timeline to 13months and it's going to be intense. I'm the master of the schedule and I'm already freaking out about how we are going to hit milestones (and how am I going to fit comic con and rollercon vacations in during the peak assembly months)
But despite all the stress this is the most excited I've been about space projects since the early days of previous-space-startup: working 100 hr weeks in the clean room. Best part about this job: no clean room and no 100 weeks! Well, for now. Both of those things may change when we hit assembly and need all hands on deck. And as the only person on the team with actual assembly and AIT experience that means MY hands on deck. It'll be really weird to have to where a management hat and also possibly an AIT tech hat at the same time.
People will be trickling out of the office starting tomorrow, but I'm probably going to stick around til Friday and try to build a robust schedule for 2019. Then I get a week to myself to work on some cosplay. Time to knock out the Tattoine Poncho. I've got most of the embroidery files ready to go, just need to dye the fabric and test out the machine tension.
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