What Casey Handmer thinks about design
Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and founder of Terraform Industries, which is building plant to make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. Writes about energy, space and manufacturing at caseyhandmer.wordpress.com.
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3 dated positions, 2021 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Casey Handmer has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAfter fourteen years of redesign, Orion's heat shield performed worse than the one it replaced.
Their wordsThe updated heat shield design, after more than 14 years of development, had performed even worse.
↗NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsYou can revisit a bunch of legacy industrial processes that are have been optimized for efficiency and say, well, what if we just like use twice as much power and we just want to do them faster and cheaper, right? Like less capex, less lead time, more power, right?
↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 24th of 24 in this recording
- 4 years earlier
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Their wordsA dollar spent on mass optimization no longer buys a dollar saved on launch cost.
↗Starship is Still Not Understoodcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 4 in this piece