Matt Gialich
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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We made it about twice as far as the moon.
So last signal we got from it was 850,000 kilometers away from the planet.
But one of the solar panels stuck.
Didn't work, right?
And that's the hard realities of space sometimes is these things don't always work.
They don't always work the way you want to.
And again, that's when it comes back to like,
How resilient are you as a leader of a company and how resilient is your company to pick up the pieces, say, cool, we made some mistakes.
We fucked it up.
Let's go fix it.
So what happened there?
Just you lost connection?
Well, no.
What happened there is when we departed Falcon, so we fly on a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket.
We're shot towards the moon on a trajectory called translunar injection.
It's the same trajectory the Apollo astronauts flew on.
And we depart from the rocket and one of our solar panels did not open.
And we don't actually know why.
I have a couple of theories of why, right?
As to why that could have happened.