Andrew Voss 🚀SpaceX world-class Rocket Engineer and 🎓Educator How to make the impossible, possible!
30Celebrating 500 YouTube Videos and nearly 275,000 views, I'm proud to share a unique and enlightening 🚀 Rocketry conversation and comprehensive interview with 🎤 Andrew Voss. A world-class 🎓 educator and 🚀 expert rocketry engineer, Andrew's profound knowledge extends into the intricate workings of the 🔺 DEWESoft DAQ System. His notable tenure as a former #SpaceX engineer has been instrumental in the development and success of revolutionary projects like #Starlink Satellites, #Falcon 9 & #Heavy rockets, #Dragon 2 spacecraft, and #space lasers. 📺 https://youtu.be/7_QbHzs3L-I
Our paths crossed at Ad Astra Nova School, where Andrew became not only a teacher but also a mentor and guiding force in my rocketry journey and instrumental for me in collaborating with 🔺DEWESoft.
In this interview, Andrew delves into the intricate details of rocket engineering, the transformative impact of hands-on education, and the solemn responsibilities borne by engineers. This discussion offers invaluable insights for anyone intrigued by the frontiers of innovation, the challenges of space exploration, and the moral implications of technological advancement. Dive into this rich dialogue to explore the fusion of theoretical knowledge and practical application shaping the next generation of engineers and thinkers.
📺 Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvmhNDLhZP-a6zPLGEVJBlDkCb6SHvsQ
👔 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-voss-279271a5/
🌐 Website https://tigerteamedu.substack.com/
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PER ASPERA AD ASTRA!
00:00 🔺Intro
00:30 Story and Early Interest
00:55 Why engineering and how a 🚀Rocketry Team changed my life
01:40 Engineering to help people
01:49 🚀 joining a Rocketry Team and winning the NASA competition
02:52 SpaceX Internship Experience
03:29 Allin in rocketry
04:11 Miracoles appen
04:38 Load Engineering Dynamics at SpaceX
04:50 Working with data sample and frequency
05:57 Learning on the fly
06:10 My SpaceX projects during the internship
06:36 Offer for a full-time job after the degree
07:01 Addressing the challenges related to vibrations, shocks, and dynamic forces
08:23 Working with many different teams and learning a lot
08:39 Working on Starship and Starlink
09:06 Space Lasers for Starlink project
09:35 Satellite alignment and reaction wheel
10:35 First principle analysis to solve the problem
11:14 Moving from the traditional way of thinking to a new
11:58 Falcon 9 landing and the Falcon Heavy
13:21 💣 Handle failure: Explosion while fueling the Falcon 9
14:39 🔺The DEWESoft Experience - modal testing and dynamic analysis
15:23 🔺Advantage of DEWESoft System
16:19 🔺DEWESoft Italia: measurement challenges and bottleneck
16:40 🔺Handle crazy high acceleration
17:37 🔺 Digital String gauges
19:49 🔺 Invitation to MC2024 in Slovenia
20:14 🔺Advice for young learners
21:17 So crazy cool Advancement in aerospace engineering
22:08 It's all about Starship
23:53 FAA The importance of regulations
24:25 Mindblowing Starship and Mars missions
25:10 A lot of cool space-related staff are going on
25:29 When we will land on Mars?
25:51 SpaceX advantage with Starlink
26:39 In Human flight failure is not an option
27:16 Who are the Andrew Mentors?
29:48 Some of SpaceX's most challenging problems
31:57 Falcon Heavy
32:12 Starlink design is amazing
33:04 Question from RocketPY Team about rocket vibration
34:34 How the systems could support those loads or did he bench-test them?
35:13 Qualification by analysis only
35:51 Leaving SpaceX to become a teacher
36:52 Thinking about teaching
37:18 SpaceX directly recruiting from the Rocketry Team
37:39 Collaborative skills
38:30 Risk management
38:42 The traditional education system is not enough
39:56 Meeting Josh Dahn at Elon Musk Ad Astra School
41:12 Summer camps
41:25 Tiger Team Education as the NASA elite group of problem solvers
42:19 Collaborative project-based education
43:03 Optimizing design and taking risk
44:25 Ad Astra Nova School and the student was one of a kind experience
44:46 Being a full-time Teacher at McCallie School
45:23 Changing Education
45:50 Students have different needs
46:40 AIlin Education
47:11 Keys principle of teaching: sobriety and humility
47:39 Engineering disasters
48:14 Student must take seriously their engineering responsibility
49:20 Go to the highest in need not just where there is more money
49:58 Astra Nova School and memorable moment teaching
50:57 Astra Nova Rocketry team launch in the desert near Los Angeles
51:13 Advice for 🚀Rocketry students
52:50 Surround yourself with great people and be kind
54:33 Work at the right problem adequately not the wrong well!
54:38 Closing
55:00 🔺DEWESoft USA asking for support for education