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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#401 – An Interview with Brent and Bryce Salmi
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		02:04:53
	Publish Date:		2018-07-30 08:46:51
	Description:		If you can’t tell from the picture, Brent and Bryce are twins 0h 0m 57s They both went to RIT and ended up working together at SpaceX 0h 1m 8s They worked on AMSAT for their senior project 0h 2m 8s Fox series cube sats 0h 2m 49s AMSAT will make a plugin module 0h 3m 51s Elona (sp?) grants 0h 4m 6s 1U cubesats 0h 5m 12s AO40 – 600 kg satellite 0h 7m 29s MPPT on github 0h 8m 24s This actually was an analog computer to cut down on components that are susceptible to cosmic rays. 0h 10m 40s It relies on feed forward 0h 10m 50s Stateless design 0h 12m 43s AO91 0h 13m 32s AO92 – just under a year 0h 13m 36s K2GEXT 0h 16m 52s Balloon hipster 0h 17m 7s For their balloon project, they prioritized reliability 0h 18m 31s Used nail polish as conformal coat 0h 19m 45s Fell through a thunderstorm 0h 20m 13s Joined SpaceX mid-2013 0h 21m 27s Around the time of C2 – First dragon mission 0h 21m 34s 1000 people when they joined 0h 22m 40s F921 – upgraded version. This is the one outside of SpaceX as a monument. 0h 25m 25s Engineering as an action sport 0h 28m 30s Watching conspiracy videos about spacex 0h 28m 53s Burning out 0h 30m 20s What electronics are involved 0h 32m 44s Rio Team 0h 32m 57s Consumer parts vs aerospace parts 0h 34m 1s Shau n from Planet episode 0h 35m 13s MIL standard 1540 0h 36m 51s NASA derating 0h 37m 39s Guidance, nav, control 0h 39m 28s Fault recovery 0h 39m 40s Sensing the environment 0h 39m 58s Pyrotechnics 0h 41m 26s Frangible bolts 0h 41m 34s RF telemtry 0h 42m 16s Space race 3.0 0h 44m 59s Lock step (is having 2 processors normally) 0h 47m 6s Voting is having 3 systems 0h 47m 49s Curiosity goes into safe mode 0h 48m 58s Designing circuits at a very low level 0h 50m 58s Understanding every way a circuit that is going to fail 0h 51m 12s As engineers they’re really paranoid now 0h 52m 1s SMPS failure 0h 52m 55s What is the margin of the components 0h 53m 17s Derating = overspec’ing 0h 54m 52s No one complains when it’s lighter 0h 58m 56s FaradayRF 1h 6m 56s 900 MHz digital radio 1h 9m 5s Trying to make a platform for people to build on 1h 11m 0s Delay tolerant network 1h 12m 7s PSK31, FT8 1h 12m 53s ISM band 1h 17m 8s Article about differences 1h 17m 47s APRS 1h 21m 28s National projects 1h 21m 32s SDR vs Faraday 1h 24m 5s CC430 radio 1h 26m 53s 10-100kBaud 1h 27m 5s goTenna 1h 33m 56s TUN tap 1h 47m 39s FaradayRF GitHub 1h 56m 13s Relativity space in LA 1h 57m 40s Aeon 1 engine 1h 58m 17s Careers page 1h 58m 47s Autonomous airplanes 2h 1m 55s Richard Branson quote 2h 4m 36s @kb1lqd 2h 6m 14s @kb1lqc 2h 6m 32s @relativityspace 2h 6m 55s
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