Posted on 08/28/2024 9:46:00 AM PDT by Salman
Boeing’s satellite maker Millennium Space Systems will soon have a new CEO. Jason Kim, the executive who held the position for nearly four years, has departed the company, TechCrunch has learned.
Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems in 2018. Since that point, the company has scored mega-deals with the U.S. Department of Defense to build satellites to help warfighters track missiles and other threats. Millennium also successfully executed a “responsive space” mission for the U.S. Space Force; that mission, called Victus Nox, sought to establish a new record for the time it takes to put a defense payload into orbit.
Millennium and its partner for the mission, Firefly Space, accomplished just that: last September, the two firms were able to integrate the Millennium-built satellite with Firefly’s launch vehicle after 58 hours. The satellite was operational just 37 hours after launch.
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Just from this article alone, its clear Boeing has a massive inventory of successful products and high tech know-how.
The debate is - is it being managed effectively? How destructive really is DEI, as well as its nearly inseparable ties to the DC bureaucrat culture? The answer is very complex.
Follow this article down various rabbit holes. Interesting and a bit disturbing.
DEI is like a cancer (even a little tiny spot) that, untreated, has very poor outcome-possibilities...
See “Kay Sears.”
Polaris Dawn will push the limits of SpaceX’s human spaceflight program — here’s how to watch it launch live (Aug 28, 2024)
Update 8/28: The mission was delayed yet again, this time due to unfavorable weather conditions — not at liftoff, which is normally the case, but during the targeted splashdown time at the end of the mission. As Jared Isaacman explained on X: “Our launch criteria are heavily constrained by forecasted splashdown weather conditions. With no ISS rendezvous and limited life support consumables, we must be absolutely sure of reentry weather before launching. As of now, conditions are not favorable tonight or tomorrow, so we’ll assess day by day.”
After a nearly three-year interlude, Jared Isaacman is returning to space. The billionaire entrepreneur first went to orbit as part of the Inspiration4 mission, which made history for having a crew comprised entirely of private citizens, not professional astronauts. But with this next mission, Polaris Dawn, he and mission partner SpaceX have set their sights even higher.
Literally: Polaris Dawn will fly farther than any mission using SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to date, while also soaring through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt for the first time since the days of the Apollo missions.
More detail at link
They need to hire a chick. And she needs to be gay.
That background at the link reads like a company man. I suspect his ability to pass a background check for a Top Secret clearance was the most important part of his resume.
https://www.elsegundoedc.org/bio/jason-kim
Launch his butt into a one-way space ride. Preferably in low earth orbit where telescopes can spot him forever. Real space junk.
Sounds like it worked because they didn't use a Boeing rocket.
Fun with words: “Victus Nox”
“Defeated Night” (past tense of victory plus night)
“Food Death” (Present tense of food plus common poetic meaning of death)
After the merger with McDonald Douglas {or Mickey Ds} the quality went down hill and when the CEO was replaced by a lawyer, they went into the 9th ring of hell.
How can any company that makes flying tubes be so corrupt that multiple doors and wheels fall from their major product?
Then, their outer space project is so Fdddd up that a competitor has to rescue the people that they sent into space.
When Trump is President, he must suspend all Boeing/gummint projects until quality control issues are cleaned up.
These Titanic deck-chairs aren’t going to rearrange themselves you know!
>>>They need to hire a chick. And she needs to be gay.
That’s about right plus no other qualifications are necessary. Pure DEI!
With tats and nose rings and other piercings.
The problem isn’t quality control being effed up.
That’s a symptom.
The problem is that Boeing is an engineering company being run by accountants and lawyers who happen to be woketards.
It’s a recipe for disaster.
Would you hire a mechanical engineer to head a law firm?
Would you hire a rocket engine scientist to head a hospital?
Would you hire a guidance system software designer to head an accounting firm?
No?
Of course not!
Any company contractor like Boeing for NASA has massive paperwork and CYA requirements that have to be done as a result of the Challenger. And, they end up adding even more of their own CYA to their subcontractors.
I managed a project once before I retired that built a towel bar antenna to be added to a new airlock entry module that was being launched for the ISS. Essentially, the antenna was to communicate with Russian cosmonauts on their lower frequency band when they were in the air lock.
5 antennas were designed and built. 3 were destroyed in testing and there was a launch and back model. The parts, etc. for each antenna amounted to just a few thousand dollars. The paperwork and testing added significantly to the overall cost (over $1M). In the end, I had 5 each 4 drawer filing cabinets filled to the brim with Boeing and NASA paperwork BS.
The problem is that ____ is an _____ company being run by accountants and lawyers who happen to be woketards. It's spread across every industry.
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