Philip Johnston
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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So it lifted off at around midnight.
And then at 1am they closed the bleachers and everyone had to get on a bus and leave.
And we're like, oh shit, I thought we were going to like be able to watch the deployment.
And then I'm sitting in the back of a cab, like watching the live feed on spacex.com literally.
Oh my God, it's deploying.
I can't believe it's deploying.
And then it took about 12 hours to make first contact, which is not bad, actually.
It usually takes at least 24 hours to get first contact.
And then it's like a two-week commissioning period.
And we had a whole bunch of software issues we had to work through.
The whole satellite kept restarting every two hours.
And what was happening was one of 20 different failure triggers was triggering.
and we didn't know which one it was and we can only get a ground station pass every like at least every hour and a half maybe longer and so we had to manually turn off each one turn back on everything else and wait for a ground station pass to know which one it was so that took like
You know, that took like three days just to figure out that software issue.
And then, yeah, two weeks after that, then we started commissioning and turning on all the different payloads.
And then we trained the first model, ran the first version of Gemini.
We did the first fine tuning of a model in orbit, did the first high power inference on satellite imagery and all this kind of stuff.
Yeah, it's heading to Japan.
Yeah, so it travels around 17,000 miles an hour.
It's about an hour and a half to do one circumnavigation.
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