I hear about the only person around it doesn't have TV coverage of the face and
then they got the black up now you're gonna be the one getting a TV picture is
still yet we are getting a TV picture
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but that's where we have our server room which has I think I'm someone order of
500 processors for computing I think computational fluid dynamics finite
element analysis and it's all about service storage for our 3d solid
modeling and that kind of thing
it's amazing how many processes you can get us in a small space these days with
with my computing over there and this is under construction but this is where our
mission control and launch control will be so this to mention like two big
cinema screens that's one of them that's another one over there in the back and
we need to have one giant image we can have for smaller images this whole thing
is going to get laid out and it's gonna be a glass tile floor which is
eliminated from below and the school desks with kind of blue lights that look
really pretty pretty neat so this area is where we do all that up inspection
and its climate control and particular controlled so because metals expand and
contract at different temperatures so we always want to make the show's rumors
that exactly 60 degrees for doing a precision minute measurement and we're
lost we try to design a part in fluent in 3d to let manufactured in 3d and then
to inspect it in 3d so we minimize the number of 2d or 3d conversions
occasionally something's better in 2d but mostly it's better in 3d
so here we are and it's a temperature just went down a whole lot because we're
in our precision control area and what that machine is going to do is it's
going to inspect that part down to within a thousandth of an inch to verify
that everything was machined as it should have been
so what we have here is the ism that's am a simulator of the Falcon 1 1st stage
engine that's an estimated at second stage engine over there and we have
what's called a full hardware-in-the-loop simulation of the
vehicle so from an avionics electronic step . promised earring standpoint the
flight computer and an avionics think that they're playing the vehicle to
space and then we verify that they've done all that the computer actually done
all the things that supposed to duty to make the right to get successfully to
space so here in our avionics test facility that's what we do best avionics
market size and shapes so you carry a bunch of thermal cycling chambers that
will take parts and put them through the 50 thermal cycles verify that thing's
gonna be okay and the temperature environment in space as much worse than
the ground because you don't have that you don't think you have air to even out
temperature so you can have to have something that being in searing Sun
lights or blackest night and it's gonna be able to handle much more of a
temperature range that what on earth that's a thermal vacuum cycler little
test both will test that part in vacuum going to the temperature cycles
let's shake the room it's got to too small and big shaker so we can simulate
the enormous acoustic and vibrational loads that part's experience during the
rocket take off and that's that's really where things tend to break more than any
other place
it never sing a little up video blog thing of the what's that
yes exactly I'm feeling all time maybe on
what I'm doing here right now is set up for a test upcoming of our second stage
if you're gonna send out
I have to Texas for a hot fire what you see here is our electrical ground
support equipment that
we have a thousand questions on the launchpad you doing
you want my replica here
the mouth though
we're putting the states bases tomorrow and you just
some preparatory
this is our electromagnetic interference test chamber looks like a torture
chamber but it's it so it's basically set up so that when we we can take our
the rocket or spacecraft and put the section here with with all the antennas
and radios and cuz respect a dozen radios on on the type of dress or either
transfers receivers of various kinds and we're gonna make sure they don't
interfere with one another and that they've got good look if we consider
verify that the signal is going out and be well received by the ground and
that's what we use this chamber for its really great
so we're kind of their that's a quarter section of
dr. 974 diameter bearing it's 74 Diamond obviously it and then and 50 feet long
escape of taking the largest satellites the world and you can actually look like
foot a city bus in in that various that big that's just a quarter section of it
how it's made of carbon fiber is very lightweight and use the most advanced
turd and analytical techniques to optimize the mass it's actually i
believe the lightest lightest weight bearing its kind as well what we're
looking at here is the Dragon spacecraft pressure vessel so it's almost done
we just need to the before and after all kids actually upside down right now you
can see the main hatch but the windows the actual common berthing mechanism
work birth to the space station is well right there
yes ordinarily be the other way around and this is an actual flight fidelity
article that's going to go through qualification testing this area's is
dedicated to our dragon spacecraft assembly so you see bears tools that's
brought heat shield making a composite parts of the heat shield of there is
others besides that the side shields and the nosecone that's that's our that's
the engineering test article about this the internet pathfinder for our heat
shield for Dragon which is choose the very best material called the phenolic
impregnated carbon ablator which is the really the best heat shield material you
can possibly have and this is that our engineering test article of our dragon
spacecraft so it's not by fidelity with the product we saw earlier with we sort
of well that piece that's actually five del T but this which uses an ensuring
pathfinder to figure out how we might make dragon and actually very useful on
the right there is a is a space station berthing mechanism ring that's an actual
ring that will make to the space station and there's another one on the dragon
itself although the guidelines are not present various pieces like windows and
brochures and vengeful nuts and these are structural bulkheads of structural
reinforcing bulkheads that's the little model we used to determine / downloading
so here we are in east high base we're two very large high bays in the East one
right now the east high bay is used for Falcon 9 stage construction and it's
also generally used for storage which is why you see verse but some pieces are
out behind me this area under the high bays use for Falcon 9 tag fabrication so
you can see behind me various battle sections for benign
that's actually serial number to that completed taxi letter to dr. 920 number
ones in the test and in Texas and then still number three is an in battle
sections on the floor and we're getting ready to weld together those both
sections and create a third tank which would actually the first flight tank so
the first one tank second qualification tank and the third one will see flight
that's a fucking one second stage both former that's the classic balls forming
tool that's used to take too well the cones of typical reflect reality of
metal like from happening alloy and bulging it to around contour which is
the optimized contour maximize the efficiency of rocket thrust this cleaner
here is also climate control particular control and it's into it's currently
useful propulsion components as well as temporarily it's used to do composite
layup so that giant to you see there is the mandrel that's used to create the
composite parts for Falcon 9 so it creates the with the interstage the
dragon trunk section and this the propulsion section skirt anything that's
the body diameter 2804 diameter
sooner go part and that'll be moved over to the actual components area when we
have that compartes preparation room down there should be some fairly soon
this area is where we do the other thoughts and one structural assembly so
behind me that's that's a fucking one have section of a nose cone that's the
tool on which the nose cones are made
that's what an avionics but rather an adapter cone that's another play with
epic own that's a manual for the beat the Falcon one interstage which is
similar to the park not interested in fact the dark knight interested just a
scaled-up version of the Falcon one interstage this is a barrel section 4000
one flight 52 applied three on the island and the question we had two
already launched entrepreneurs like four is going to be right behind that we
launch ship in about the performance time and then it's like fly which will
launch sometime in the first half of next year
now we're like customers that are just in that we expect you to be on that
pretty soon
and this area is also used for composites of application so we've got a
big oven there she's used to a big part of the smaller and smaller parts
we're looking at here is a fucking one upper stage so you can see the the
engine and actuators and the club all that planning is for the attitude
control system will actually hold the pressure and bottles there's a lot more
stuff that goes in the back there you can see the tank and the little skirt
the bank that holds a lot of the structure that's look like four and then
the flight five unit is is right there behind with so much stuff done it yet
this is a select section and happy to see offer people work here you get free
snacks and drinks which is kind of a common thing in internet world but both
usual in the space world and make people working late and and and then they need
a snack or something make sure we have one readily available right well thanks
for calling me on the tour that to that was just space export one that's
actually a lot more other space activities were a big test citing Texas
we're going to test a launch pad to click Averil george island in the
question at all and we're looking for great people of all kinds to try the
company so interested please send us really
welcome to SpaceX hero in the lobby
it's very white right now but they're actually some some cool elements coming
soon that will make it last night in front of the building we have our
engineering offices and space for about 300 people floor we've got a total of
about three floors that we can open
I not only the first floor is occupied and we try to eight person which is a
very open plan to maximize communication and it's of a fairly nice-lookin this
place used to be quite dismal that's that's my office over there
actually we really try to minimize the number of offices that we have because
doors limit communication everyone company with the exception of a few
people like HR finance actually aren't kids including the vice president's over
there this grin at her cube although this is really reality I guess I
responsible for sales
I'm in charge of making sure that there's revenue here in the company and
we're working on
a lot of fucking moron doing stopping ideas and driving so it's just a little
area where people can meet and an absolute impromptu meeting let's see
also very opened i think it's actually quite helpful to have this openness
because then you can still see what people are working on the computers
okay like what that McCarron here is is doing what are you working on the making
a assembly documentation for the Draco ok
RCS gave it is but a driving the development of our in space thrusters
for breakup and there's a little piece of it
4xx attempt that's just a sample spun Conan we're going to protect this
testing facility down there
is that comes on that for you
Barcelona right so directly engine is what is used in our dragon spacecraft
and also at the stage of of fucking 940 maneuvering and reentry
but this is a hour meaning of gaap MTG report we meet with our customers and
it's bc of a customer counts for something like that it's kind of cool to
skip this class that that goes up bake and we put a motion sensor on it so as
you walk in Glasgow's opaque we named our copper firms after the great rocket
engineers and great scientists related to space so i think that they really
deserve the credit for you know enabling us to become a spacefaring civilization
so if Ellie science engineer eccentric we have some some controversy about the
astronauts to but we're trapped try to focus more on the two people that
actually designed for rocket
this area is useful it
the engine components are the major components so you can see there's a
nozzle over snot-nosed various stages of completion and then you can also see the
copper of things that the chamber liners
you see that between that that better Amyrlin vacuum configuration which has
got a more spread out the nozzle section and that's the sea level configuration
which has got a sort of short cop nozzle those that the propellant supply lines
for Falcon 9 so the they've got a single tank that many folds out 2nite engines
and you got film drain lines so is a total of $OPERAND of 10 sets of five
inch diameter lines that's a manifold out to the various engines so it's kinda
like having like a nine-cylinder engine cars Rebecca
this is out too many areas so there's a lot of tubes in a rocket and we have a
couple of automated to vendors that once you program a particular type of tube i
could be a very complicated to looks like a crazy pretzel and this machine
can make that exact same to every time perfectly alright so here we are on the
SpaceX machine shop we have these about 30 different machines of all sizes
shapes have higher ed and machines electric discharge machining we've got
blazed
Mo's that there's just an almost amount of metal sculpting that takes place to
create the vehicle you know a lot of people realize that's basics makes about
eighty percent of the vehicle by value in-house do for the engine role model
comes in and out comes an engine and so it's all these machines that the
mentalist taken from its raw form and into the final machine part
so apart like this will come in as a forging
and and then I'll get turned and more than cut and eventually end up as an
engine chamber liner
this is in your machine that just arrived just being tested the three
spaces before we start machining on it they were actually cutting the grooves
on a chamber and drilling the holes that are necessary for cooling these are
engine manifolds to connect the nozzle and the chamber
these are dispersed rocket parts parts for the stages probably engines there
are some sumps that's a tube for the main oxygen supply line to falcon 9 some
more nozzle parts here
so that's another part and also part that sound machine shop actually I mean
I'm going through everything there's a lot of detail herein service proprietary
but gives you a sense for what cable we actually got a lot of foresight
machining that we do as well we have a very high engine production rate here
it's at SpaceX this year just a lot of SpaceX will make more rocket engines
than the rest of us production combined and next year will but we'll make more
rocket engines than any country in the world so that's a lot of rocket engines
they don't have to go through and be be made very efficiently and made very
accurately and that's what all these machines are full
we're looking at here is a moment 1c fully regenerated cool the engine is
getting ready to ship out to test that in Texas to to be part of the nine
engine firing this is actually the ninth and final engine to be shipped down for
that and we do that firing it's going to be quite spectacular with it
Falcon 9 is the most powerful single-core vehicle in the American feet
and when Falcon 9 heavy debuts and in about two to three years that will be
the most powerful vehicle in the world because the shuttle will have retired by
that point
so that's really quite significance you know the wrong equivalent of an AFS a380
or 47 47 this thing is the to pump this is this is the chamber nozzle and in
this or supporting structure in there with the avionics and control valves and
you can see the difference with the Falcon one configuration since the seal
permit the stage valving is contained inside that that that permit but other
than that is substantially the same with the turbopump in the chamber nozzle very
little difference really between the Falcon one configuration file tonight
configuration
I could do about the only person
it doesn't have TV coverage of the things and it man they got the black up
now you're gonna be a star in the TV picture now epic fail yes we are getting
a TV picture here with you now one all
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