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The Deepest Map

by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023

/saildrones.-journey-into-category-4-hurricane-uncovers-clue-into-rapidly-intensifying-storms. 4.Dongxiao Zhang et al., “Comparing Air-Sea Flux Measurements from a New Unmanned Surface Vehicle and Proven Platforms During the SPURS-2 Field Campaign,” Oceanography 32, no. 2 (June 2019): 122–33, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre · 23 Apr 2018 · 590pp · 152,595 words

in the loop when it comes to the actual engagement of an enemy.” But the spokesman also acknowledged that “under this swarming demonstration with multiple [unmanned surface vehicles], ONR did not study the specifics of how the human-in-the-loop works for rules of engagement.” OODA Loop The Navy’s fuzzy

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-armed-unmanned-surface-vessels/. 103 Singapore has purchased the Protector: “Protector Unmanned Surface Vessel, Israel,” naval-technology.com, http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/protector-unmanned-surface-vehicle/. 103 ESGRUM: “BAE ESGRUM USV,” NavalDrones.com, http://www.navaldrones.com/BAE-ESGRUM.html. 103 Only twenty-two nations have said they support: Campaign

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words

’s vast weapon systems of the future will involve an entire army of drones. They will include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned ground systems (UGS), unmanned surface vehicles (USV), unmanned maritime systems (UMS), and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), weapons that reach from the depths of the ocean into outer space. At present

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words

this new gift, he had second thoughts, fearing the news would detract from an upcoming launch of a SpaceX rocket and its landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Someone reminded him there were no reporters at the conference and that the attendees were under Chatham House Rules, meaning they

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

Trek fans say the smartphone is the real-life incarnation of the tricorder. Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur who founded Tesla, named his two spaceport drone ships Just Read The Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You in tribute to the “Culture” novels by the science fiction great Iain M. Banks

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words

costing $3,000 each from different online sources. He paid for them with a PayPal account he had created under an alias and had the drones shipped to a storage facility in nearby Framingham that he had rented, paying cash. There Ferdaus began covertly assembling the devices before moving on to the

Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age

by Eric Berger · 23 Sep 2024 · 375pp · 113,230 words

three Merlin engines would slow the rocket and put it on a trajectory to either return to land or alight on the deck of a drone ship offshore. Then, at the top of the atmosphere, an “entry” burn of three engines was needed to slow down the rocket. Finally, near the ground

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the Instructions, after the sentient starship in the Culture series of science fiction novels by Iain M. Banks. As 2014 ended, it became clear the drone ship would soon be called into service. After fits and starts with landing attempts, SpaceX engineers began to have enough confidence to try hitting the “X

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” on a drone ship. With its fourteenth overall Falcon 9 launch, a Dragon cargo delivery mission planned for early January, SpaceX therefore would try landing at sea. Kellie believed

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much better place to do it.” Like a lot of his fellow engineers at SpaceX, Kellie worked more than 100 hours a week during the drone ship build-out. He had packed a single suitcase for an eight-week assignment in Louisiana, and by the time of the first landing attempt, he

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really need an ocean landing.” Returning rockets to the launch site would simply cost too much fuel. The answer SpaceX settled on was the automated drone ship. It seems pretty mad, but with sophisticated avionics onboard the rocket, the company’s engineers believed the ship could pitch and roll as much as

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5 or 6 degrees on the sea and still support a landing. The drone ship would need to hold to an absolute position at sea based on GPS data, with an accuracy of three feet or less. The task for

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this landing was widely enjoyed inside SpaceX at the time because it shows the first stage brilliantly lit at night, striking one side of the drone ship before sliding across the deck and culminating in a spectacular explosion. “We had to rebuild the barge completely after that landing, which I called Leeroy

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, a month and a day after the previous flight, with a closed-loop hydraulic system. However, stormy weather and twenty-three-foot waves precluded a drone ship landing attempt. Even so, the rocket made a vertical landing into the ocean within about thirty feet of the targeted area, indicating SpaceX had solved

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settled on was, to put it mildly, slightly hazardous. The rocket would land and then dump its extra fuel directly onto the deck of the drone ship. If there was an excess of fuel, as anticipated, the deck would be sprayed with water cannons. Then the welders would come onboard and secure

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be welded down over the rocket’s landing legs that were both more secure and safer to install. Kellie was at sea for the next drone ship landing attempt, for the sixth NASA cargo mission, in April 2015. This one almost made it safely down, but a stuck valve caused the stage

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to have too much sideways motion after it reached the drone ship. As the rocket slowly slid laterally, a landing leg broke and the vehicle toppled over. This was clearly suboptimal, but one of the landing legs

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. Just Read the Instructions returned to sea two and a half months later, in late June 2015, to try again. This would be the third drone ship landing attempt, and as Kellie and the other members of the recovery team followed along on the GO Quest support ship, they were eager to

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significant upgrade, to version 1.2, which later became known as Falcon 9 Full Thrust. This represented a massive evolution to the rocket’s capabilities. Drone ship landings were essential to making the economics of first stage reuse work, but they were not the only step. SpaceX also needed to squeeze every

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penalty for returning to Earth due to its landing gear and other added components. For economic viability, therefore, Musk believed densification was as important as drone ship landings. If he could accomplish both, the Falcon 9 could truly be the world’s first twenty-first-century rocket—reusable, high-performing, and cost

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-40 to make the densified propellant for the debut flight of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust. SpaceX desperately tries to save Christmas After two failed drone ship landings, Musk felt ready to try landing on land. This had a major advantage over the ocean, as the rocket need not contend with high

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Air Force officials of the project’s safety. It helped that the ocean landings, although they were not successful, had come close to hitting the drone ship. So Monteith felt confident that if SpaceX damaged any property at the Cape, it would be the company’s own equipment. SpaceX also demonstrated that

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really cared about the launch anymore. All eyes were on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida. SpaceX had attempted to land on a drone ship four times, and although they had come close to the mark, the rocket had always slammed into

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watched video relayed from an aircraft, leaning forward in their seats. The last seconds of the sooty rocket’s descent to the deck of the drone ship were very slow, agonizingly so. Upon reaching the deck, it bounced slightly. “It touches down and you’re thinking it’s going to fall over

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for the world to see. The company’s second rocket to land, however, did fly again. After the CRS-8 rocket touched down on a drone ship, the company towed it back to shore and spent more than a year disassembling and inspecting the booster. Every engine was taken apart and updated

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first Falcon 9 is worked on at SLC-40. | PHOTO CREDIT: TIM BUZZA After landing, a Falcon 9 sits atop the Just Read the Instructions drone ship. | PHOTO CREDIT: NASA The Grasshopper test vehicle in McGregor, Texas, in October 2012. The streak in the sky to the right is the CRS-1

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space program Ariane rockets Armadillo Aerospace Armstrong, Neil Artemis Program Aschbacher, Josef Atlantis, Atlas rockets Badyal, Rajeev Baikonur Cosmodrome Ball, David barge, recovery. see also drone ships Barr, Jon Beal, Andy Beal Aerospace Beck, Peter Behnken, Bob Bell, Don Bernauer, Doug Beyel Brothers Bezos, Jeff Black, Julia Blackmore, Lars Blue Origin Boca

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Desch, Matt Diablo Canyon Power Plant Diez, Shana Dnepr rockets Dontchev, Kiko Draco thrusters DragonFly, Dragon spacecraft. see also Crew Dragon Dream Chaser space plane drone ships DSCOVR satellite Dumbacher, Dan Dunn, Zach Dyer, Joseph Edwards, Jon Elbon, John Endeavour, Esparza, Haley Euclid space telescope Europa Clipper European commercial launches European Space

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and Commercial Crew program and Couluris and Crew Dragon critics of decision-making time for demands made by Dnepr launches sought by and Dragon and drone ship design earliest employees of and Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy financial problems for and first NASA contract and flight termination system on

Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World

by Anna Crowley Redding · 1 Jul 2019 · 190pp · 46,977 words

? SpaceX would also need a way to land over water. Elon’s answer to that was a drone ship, a remote-controlled landing pad. SpaceX needed two. The Atlantic would be covered by a drone ship named Just Read the Instructions and the Pacific by Of Course I Still Love You. Just Read the

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Instructions drone ship. (© SpaceX.) But to even set down a rocket safely on land, well, one SpaceX commentator described the

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machine symbiosis … oh, and two spaceships named Of Course I Still Love You and Just Read the Instructions. In 2018, Elon announced that a third drone ship under construction would be called A Shortfall of Gravitas, also inspired by the Culture series. STICK THE LANDING MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2015 8:29 p

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’s University. “Quick Facts.” www.queensu.ca/about/quickfacts. Ralph, Eric. “Elon Musk Reveals SpaceX’s New Scifi-Inspired Drone Ship—A Shortfall of Gravitas.” Teslarati, 12 Feb. 2018. www.teslarati.com/spacex-new-drone-ship-a-shortfall-of-gravitas/. Ressi, Adeo. “About.” www.adeoressi.com/index.php/about/. Rive, Lyndon. Interview by Brian

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone · 10 May 2021 · 569pp · 156,139 words

Space Race (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018). the firm landed a Falcon 9 booster: Loren Grush, “SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket on a Floating Drone Ship for the First Time,” The Verge, April 8, 2016, https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/8/11392138/spacex-landing-success-falcon-9-rocket-barge-at

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz · 20 Mar 2018 · 328pp · 96,141 words

improved the computer algorithms guiding the rocket. During the previous mission, two months before, the rocket had landed—actually landed, standing upright—on the floating drone ship. But it was unbalanced, and observers watched the live video feed in dismay as it tipped over with agonizing slowness. The remaining propellant ignited spectacularly

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NASA Landed rocket boosters stack up in SpaceX’s hangar at Kennedy Space Center. Courtesy of SpaceX A SpaceX rocket attempts to land on a drone ship in 2015 . . . Courtesy of SpaceX . . . but an awkward touchdown results in an explosion. Courtesy of SpaceX A SpaceX Dragon capsule is recovered from the sea

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ICBMs, they have the ability to rotate and maneuver the rocket by altering the flow of air around it. The other debut was two autonomous drone ships—large barges capable of operating without human crew so that they could safely function as floating landing pads for the rocket booster. The company had

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“Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.” SpaceX shared videos of these misses on social media; the varied explosive attempts to land the Falcon 9 first stage on the drone ships would become iconic among SpaceX fans and employees, populating a blooper reel of rocket test disasters. The company’s decision to stream its launches live

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scheme they had battled Bezos for in the courts. In January and March of 2016, the company attempted to land two more boosters on the drone ships. The first, a comparatively easy flight to low earth orbit, almost went swimmingly, but one of the landing legs came unlocked and the rocket slowly

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their vehicle, playing with different ways to balance engine thrust and maneuverability while conserving propellant. Finally, in April 2016, SpaceX landed a booster on a drone ship following a mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Three more would follow suit after later launches, including two returning from high-velocity missions

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go,” a SpaceX engineer told observers. While the second stage coasted through space, the first stage met the atmosphere again. It was aiming for a drone ship, and its engines ignited again to slow its descent. On the video stream, viewers could see one of the grid fins burst into flames, and

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breaking off. As the booster plunged through the clouds, condensation covered the camera. Would the flames compromise the rocket’s ability to return to the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, waiting a few hundred miles out in the Atlantic Ocean? The camera on the vessel cut out as the