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Skunk Works and the 14 Rules Behind Fast Engineering
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The Airbus A380 did not fail because engineers were bad at engineering. It failed because teams worked in different tools and lost a shared source of truth.
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Inside the SpaceX Internal Design Tool
The Bill of Design (BOD) is how SpaceX turns requirements, ownership, and testing into a single operating system for speed and rigor.
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Hardware development's biggest problem is not engineering. It's communication.
As teams grow, the real bottleneck is not technical skill. It is how engineers stay aligned across disciplines, tools, and programs.
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Announcing Flow's $23M Series A, Led by Sequoia
Flow raises $23M Series A from Sequoia, founders of Stripe & Unity to help hardware teams iterate like software.
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OceanGate: A Masterclass in How Not to Do Systems Engineering
The Titan Submersible failure report is out. It's a wild masterclass in how not to build safety-critical systems.
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A conversation with Anduril and Flow on why modern systems teams are moving beyond waterfall.
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Concurrent Engineering—From Lip Service to Real Parallelism
Many teams claim they're practicing concurrent engineering—but in reality, they're stuck in a watered-down waterfall.
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Agile for Safety-Critical Systems—Faster, Safer, and More Reliable
Using agile for safety-critical systems will get people killed.' Wrong. The misunderstanding comes from a flawed assumption: that iteration means 'just do stuff and see what happens.'
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Scoping and The Perfection Trap—Lessons from Astranis and Planet
Most Products Are Already Broken at the Requirement Level. How do teams like Astranis and Planet get scoping right?
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Three (More) SpaceX Secrets on Systems Engineering Culture
Culture, not (just) engineering, is what separates the best from everyone else. Three bold lessons from SpaceX.
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Iterative Systems Engineering Is MBSE the future or a Buzzword?
Practical advice on how Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) can accelerate iteration in complex engineering projects.
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Time Is A Requirement, Not A Resource: Three Radical Ideas On Iterative Engineering
The next-generation of space companies are all betting their companies on one idea—Agile. Webinar Recap.
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Rise and Fall of NASA: What The Apollo Program Can Teach Modern Hardware Teams
NASA was once the fastest-moving engineering organization on Earth. Then, NASA lost its way.
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Agile Engineering: Implementing Fast, Iterative Design Process in Aerospace
Webinar: Practical tips to iterate faster in aerospace & hardware. Insights from leaders at Hermeus, ABL & Planet.
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SpaceX's Agile Systems Engineering — Five Lessons from the Best
All knowledge is publicly available and non-confidential. This post is not connected to or endorsed by SpaceX.
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Beyond Blueprints, Episode #5: Scrubbing CO2 from the Atmosphere
Features Shiladitya Ghosh, COO and Cofounder of Mission Zero Technologies, discussing carbon removal from atmosphere.
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Beyond Blueprints, Episode #4: Hydrogen Capsules Fuel Flight
Features TeAnn Nguyen, Senior Systems Engineer at Universal Hydrogen, discussing sustainable aviation fuel.
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Beyond Blueprints, Episode #3: Electric Trucks for Sustainable Cities
Features Ben Anstey, Director of Electrical Systems and Digital Experience for Volta Trucks.
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Agile Engineering: 5 mistakes you are probably making
Some of our most successful customers needed to rip up the traditional 'old-school' playbook to meet deadlines.
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Beyond Blueprints, Episode #2: Roadside Assistance in Orbit
Features Rajat Kulshrestha, CEO & Co-Founder of Space Machines, discussing on-orbit satellite servicing.
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Beyond Blueprints, Episode #1: Nuclear Reactors in Space
Features William Madsen, Head of Engineering at Antares Industries, on nuclear technology innovations.
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The Vertical Aerospace Crash: What happened and what can we learn?
Everyone is hoping to be first to market with a fully certified product and any hiccup can have wide ranging consequences.
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Saturday Startup Stories: Our Journey from Rockets to Revolutionary Software
Founder Pari sat down with Jason Carman of the S³ Saturday Startup Stories docuseries.
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'Ambitious Engineers Against Excessive Engineering Administration' (AEAEEA)
The acronym nicely represents the sound made when having to rewrite engineering change notice for the fourth time.
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"Agile Requirements": What the best NewSpace teams are doing differently
A clear pattern differentiates the best NewSpace teams from the old-school - their different worldview on requirements.
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Digital Transformation is Failing Our Engineers
A look back over the last few years of engineering digital transformation and where we're going next.
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Flow Engineering raises an $8.5m Seed Round
We've raised $8.5m to revolutionise collaboration for 'new age' hardware teams solving humanity's greatest problems.
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The New Golden Era of Engineering - its finally here
Reusable Rockets & Fusion Reactors - Are We Ready for The Next Era of Physical Engineering?
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