llcrabtree

The best space newsletter with the best people. I wish I could upvote again!!!

Love having you guys featured in here!

Thanks @audreyfraijo!!!!

So excited for this news to finally be public!

+1 as the YC community is amazing!

Hands up for scrappy, quick iterative engineering at SpaceX. It's truly unparalleled.

Very cool! Would love to learn more about what you're working on!!

Super excited for this launch. What a fantastic team, and honestly capabilities that have been missing from the space ecosystem!

We're so excited to support such amazing companies such as yours!

Oh it is LLCrabtree! I'd love to connect. Send me an email laura@epsilon3.io =)

yes to this! It takes a huge team to make something like that successful, and we want to continue to support those teams!

100% on the roadmap!!!

This is 100% my experience too. Something has to give when you're developing a tool for in-house use only. The same practices you'd use for developing a tool for a larger audience can't apply because you don't have endless resources, personnel or time when developing in-house. Thanks for this information. It's super helpful!

Yes! Super excited about this too. We love seeing information being shared about this industry more freely than before! And an increased interest doesn't hurt either. =)

100%

Lol, thanks Pat. I keep telling the team that we won't allow acronyms. That feature is 100% on the list. Currently they are allowed, however future revisions might not allow acronyms, or might force you to define them. Certainly keep your eyes peeled for this new *feature*.

Joseph, for #1, I've worked on in-house tools and: 1. They never get enough developers. 2. They usually get deprioritized in lieu of other projects. 3. Many small space companies don't have resources to build awesome in-house tools.

It can be really time consuming and take the team's focus off of the primary goal as well, so we try to get teams to focus on the things that they are uniquely qualified to do, rather than build software to support their operation.

Most certainly! We are planning to integrate with all software packages that our customers are using to enable really efficient operations for them. We have a few Next Gen DOORS customers, as well as other requirements tracking tools. I love the suggestions!

In addition, we can comment and actively redline running procedures. If you want me to show you I'd be happy to. You can email me at laura@epsilon3.io and in addition I'll make a small tutorial and link it here when complete.

Yes, it's been accomplished with paper in the past, but at great expense as many of the teams of the past were large. Take for example any control room of the 1960s, which had 40-60 people in it. Today's teams are scattered (and working from home much of the time), and much smaller (think less than 5) and must be able to accomplish the same tasks as those larger teams of the 1960s. Our software enables the teams to be smaller, more agile, and communicate better from anywhere in the world.

I second both Orbital Index and Payload Research!

Troy! What a great questions @jeffcrusey!! Our Troy is becoming a household name. To us that means powering the future of spaceflight, and complex engineering operations. It means seeing our products used by commercial astronauts, commercial space companies, legacy space companies, launch vehicles, satellite & constellation operators, aircraft, and so much more.

Maybe?

I'm definitely living out my childhood dreams too!

I think there are so many reasons space is so hot. In the past, the industry was like a black box, with only large players like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc. These companies moved traditionally very slowly and held really large government contracts. The space industry commercialized over the past 10 years, and very recently has become much more easily accessible to smaller, more agile companies. We're so excited by the boom in the industry and want to help enable all these small companies to be able to do more with their small teams! I mean, that, and Elon, because he made space cool again.

Hi, I’m the CEO of Epsilon3, and SpaceX veteran. Super happy to be here and answer any questions!