Space X, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation is American company aerospace company started in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk and was originally based in El Segundo and later relocated to Hawthorne, California. It was founded on a vision and mission to reduce the cost of space transportation and enabling the colonization of Mars, it has since then tested and developed the Dragon launch vehicle and the Falcon spacecraft family, which both currently deliver payloads into Earth’s orbit.
History
In 2001, Elon Musk came with the idea and motivation regarding a project to land a miniature greenhouse to grow certain plants on Mars, this would be the farthest that life’s ever been traveled since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon. Musk tried to buy rockets from Russia but returned empty handed as the cost was too high, he realised that he could build a company that could build affordable rockets as the raw materials for building rockets were around 3% of the sales price at that time. SpaceX started with the smallest orbital rocket to test their design as a more costlier and riskier vehicle could have failed and bankrupted the company.
Achievements
Space X designed and funded the first privately owned liquid propellant rocket to reach orbit in the year 2008 [Falcon 1], the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft in the year 2010 [Dragon]. Also, the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International space station in the year 2012 from the Dragon family of spacecraft family. NASA awarded SpaceX a development contract in 2011 to develop a spaceship that would be used to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Visualization and Statistics of SpaceX missions
Big data in the aerospace and aeronautics industry
Data analytics helps the defence and aerospace industry by helping them optimizing the flow of resources and business processes while maintaining and regulating precise details which help in business decisions as information technology enabled the digitation of business procedures with the help of automation of some manual tasks to improve overall efficiency. Analytics in its intrinsic form has been helping to collect data on spaceships, rockets, and aircraft for years ranging from binary data such as altitude and speed, it even deals with very minute and slow progressions details such as crack growth progression, temperature variations.
The data is not a problem, aside from its ability to ease the launch of rockets, the astronomical data collected over several launches of SpaceX has been the driving force behind the decisions they make. Moulded by their state of their art intelligence systems, the information produced has changed the direction of traditional business such as research and sales. It has helped SpaceX to return from catastrophic failures such as the explosion in September 2016. And ultimately allowed them to take decisions based on data which was proved when they launched their reusable rocket Falcon 9 and could land it on a 91 x 52-meter landing pad, 350km away, from 80km up.
GG plots in r
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Future of big data in aerospace engineering and cosmology
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The science required for these simulations is less of an issue than the technology required to run the simulations as big data is quite tough to move around that’s why processing frameworks like Hadoop exist. Getting information from a metaphorical slob of data is the first critical step that is why organizations analyse data at its source because then there is no waiting period to download data in a separate analytical environment, in an overall gist; data will continue to grow and new patterns will emerge, rapid changes in the stream of big data ecosystem will be driven by advanced predicting insights which will eventually be the common norm in industry and academia alike and will foster the growth of machine learning with the time to come.
