Аннотация: Sergei Korolev, Elon Musk and ellipsoidal orbits of space business devices. A philosophical sketch.
Sergei Korolev, Elon Musk and ellipsoidal orbits of space business devices. A philosophical sketch.
In addition to space equipment, there are, also, a space business devices - that is, a space business projects.
A space business devices - it is a people (staff, employees) it is their plans, their actions, their money, their achievements, their failures...
Sergei Korolev was the head of a Soviet state space organization.
Elon Musk runs a private space firm.
Space business devices can have different names, they can have different organizational and legal forms.
What factors affect the orbits of space business devices?
According to our original concept, mental and cultural traditions can have an impact. We named: the Copernican tradition, the Newton tradition, we spoke, presumably, about the existence of the Leonardo da Vinci tradition.
In the era of Sergei Korolev's success, computer technology was relatively undeveloped. However, a design activity, partly intuitive, has led to the creation of one of the most reliable spacecraft - Soyuz (a series of spacecraft).
Elon Musk has a huge computing, research and development, intellectual, industrial, economic, and financial potential at his disposal.
Many achievements are based on the wide application of mathematics and calculations.
Does this guarantee success?
Of the significant number of Starship prototypes, only a few are successful.
In the recent past, there was a space shuttle project (Space Shuttle program).
How to evaluate it - as a successful project or as a non-successful one?
Much depends on the point of view.
The Buran project - successful or not successful?
Projects "Salyut-7", "MIR"?
A space business ship - to fly in the face of the challenges of a democratic system with broad freedom of the press - need a huge pull (power) of success.
Failures, especially disasters with human casualties, have a fatal effect on the space business ship. Intense political and budgetary corrosion begins, culminating in the decommissioning of the space business ship.
In addition to the democratic political system and broad real freedom of the media, there are also factors such as the securities market and securities legislation.
Shares of space companies rise and fall in price.
Sometimes the captains of space business ships fall under the investigation of the stock market regulators.
The subtle question is reputation.
Let's say that Sergei Korolev was not engaged nor in the construction of tunnels in megacities, nor the production of cars of the latest design.
But he didn't need it. For a long time, he was under the wing of the Ministry of Defense. For a relatively short period of time, the Ministry of Defense under the leadership of Tukhachevsky expressed interest in its activities. For a considerable period of time, his work was patronized by the Ministry of Defense under the leadership of Vasilevsky (Alexander Vasilevsky headed the General Staff, then became a minister).
For the Ministry of Defense, the involvement of the designer of space technology in the production of the latest car brands could seem superfluous.
On the contrary, for the stock market, for investors, the general reputation of the captain of a space business ship plays a role. There is a reputational law of communicating vessels (the equalization of level the reputation in all the connected vessels take place - for example, in the case, if an additional reputation is added into one of communicating vessels) - although in reality, vessels may be communicated (interlinked) to a very small extent. But investors do not reach such subtleties in their reflections. And in general, this is an evaluative, philosophical question.
To the democratic political system, to the broad freedom of the media, to the in-flows and off-flows, to the rules and traditions, to the regulation of the stock market, the environmental factor is also added.
If the world community is more or less used to the "Soyuz" (spacecraft), it treated the deorbitation of Salyut-7, MIR and other large space objects with moderate worry, then the launch of the next Starship model caused disturbing comments from US environmentalists.
It seems that - according to preliminary information - the launch has been postponed.
China's space program encourages thinking about the importance of such factors as (a) access to the experience and achievements of another country (USSR-Russia) and (b) the effective use of intellectual borrowing.
And personal factors-how do they affect the captains of space business ships?
We know relatively little about Sergei Korolev's personal life. There seems to have been one divorce and two marriages. And, in general, the whole life of Sergei Korolev was filled with work.
Apparently, Elon Musk's life is also very densely filled with space developments.
There are family photos on the Internet.
Recently, it was reported that Elon Musk is completing the sale of all his (rather numerous) properties. Media inform about very expensive and prestigious houses.
Sergei Korolev may not have owned any real estate (this issue is, may be, the subject to clarification).
So, there are pairs of concepts: "success - not success", "reliability - unreliability", "security - a quality of catastrophism", "popularity-distrust" and others. In practice, these pairs of concepts are arranging in original combinations and affect the flight path of space business ships.
We can also mention such a pair of concepts as "information openness - information closeness".
We personally had a reason to reflect on this topic. While creating several biographical notes about the figures of the US space industry, we found an interview that was given several years ago.
We took a phrase from this interview and put this phrase in the title of our work. [MMXXVI.] To Mars - for apples. ("Dare Mighty Things"). An essay. - February 22, 2021.
It was February 22, 2021. Who knew on February 22, 2021, about the volume of events that was hidden in the depths of reality?
It turns out that a large research organization was conducting a huge space project with public money, in this space project there was a need for a parachute, and on the parachute one of the programmers made an inscription in binary code: "Dare Mighty Things."
Not a few people were involved in all this history, especially since all this was done with state money. But who knew about it on February 22, 2021? (National Geographic published an article on February 18, 2021, where he mentioned a parachute. In this material, of course, any mysterious inscriptions in binary code on the parachute weren't mentioned). So, we see a some non-publicity.
But already on February 23, 2021, events unfolded rapidly - "Across the Atlantic Ocean, Maxence Abela, a 23-year-old computer science student in Paris, realized what Mr. Chen was saying: The seemingly random pattern on Perseverance's parachute contained a code. He called his father, Jerome, a software engineer at Google working in London, and the two set to solving it."
Maxence, Chen, and Jerome made the inscription on the parachute a public thing. The staff of a big space organization confirmed the correctness of the thoughts of Maxence, Chen and Jerome.
So, almost in one day - February 23, 2021 - the situation has moved from a state of relative information closeness to a state of broad information openness.
So the suddenness and architecture of information flows is a factor that affects the trajectory of space business ships.
An attempt to generalize the sum of the factors, that affect the orbit of a space business ship, leads to the reasonable assumption, that the orbits of such ships have an ellipsoid shape.
[XXIV. The tale about conversation between Nicolaus Copernicus and Isaac Newton. (From the Collection "Two Tales of Four Technical Revolutions"). (English). - March 26, 2017.
XLVI. The Fairy Tale about the King of stellar creativity - April 25, 2017.
MCIX. Fyodor Dostoevsky and the USSR space project. A literary note. - November 6, 2019.
MDXXI. A comparative history of the MIR space station and the Mirny Antarctic station. Essay on scientific and technical history. - June 26, 2020.
MDXXX. Liquidation of the supervisory-intellectual, space and literary intelligentsia. Common features and differences. The essay. - June 30, 2020.
MDCXLVII. How an inventor from USA launched the US space program. A sketch about the history of the space race. - August 16, 2020.
MDCCCLXXXIX. A Cosmic Throw in the information holding. A story. - December 9, 2020.
MMXXI. A fundamentally new space technology - a space helicopter. The note. - February 19, 2021.
MMXXIII. A long-awaited successful breakthrough in nanotechnology. MiMi Aung and the space helicopter 'Ingenuity'. A super brief review. - February 20, 2021.
MMXXVI. To Mars - for apples. ("Dare Mighty Things"). An essay. - February 22, 2021.
MMXXVII. Orbital stations, Sun, Moon, Mars, Saturn ... A note. - February 22, 2021.
MMXXXV. Principles of coding and decoding of messages from a higher civilization. ("Dare Mighty Things"). The note. - February 25, 2021.
MMXXXVI. Ian Clark - who is he and what is known about him? The note. - February 26, 2021.
MMXXXVII. They made the parachute work under harsh conditions. ('Luck favors the prepared'). The note. - February 27, 2021.
MMXXXIX. Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Pasteur, the InSight project ("I am on the edge of mysteries"). The note. - February 28, 2021.
MMXL. William J. Broad on United States Space Force. A super short review. - February 28, 2021.
MMXLVIII. Chance favors the prepared. Elon Musk and the Universal Space Apparatus. The essay . - March 5, 2021.
MMXLXVIII. Let us look to the future. A space orbits for a financial means and for a concerted action. The note. - March 10, 2021.
MMLIX. France. From the Athena-Fidus satellite incident to patrol satellites ... A note on defense space trends. - March 11, 2021.
MMLX. A space solutions in a large information holding. A story (continued). - March 11, 2021.
MMLXI. "He brought the stars closer." Emmanuel Macron will take part in space exercises. The note. - March 12, 2021.
MMLXVI. A space anti-brokering in the information holding. The story (continued). - March 14, 2021.
MMLXVIII. The space exercises in France have come to finish. The next step is the creation of a NATO Space Center of Excellence in Toulouse. The note.. - March 15, 2021.
MMLXXIX. It is not enough just to desire: you have to do it. A moving towards the Great Space Revolution. The note. - March 15, 2021.
MMXСIII. Edison, Tesla, Sikorsky, Hughes, Musk. Tsiolkovsky, Krzhizhanovsky, Korolev. ... Kellner, Deripaska ... A culturological essay. - March 30, 2021.
MMСI. The ten thousand global economies. "We are pushed to our limits at all times." NASA's Psyche mission and Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton. The note. - April 5, 2021.
MMСII. Jim Bridenstine. Elon Musk. Bill Nelson. A some details of biographies. An essay on the history of space research. - April 6, 2021.
MMСXХII. Have flown in. An essay on the history of Russial space policy and diplomacy. - April 18, 2021.
MMСXХV. Copernicus and Newton. A cosmic intuition and a cosmic mathematics. A space helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight in Mars' thin atmosphere. An essay. - April 20, 2021.
MMСXХXIII. Robot Fedor on the space scene. The third manned flight of Crew Dragon to the ISS and a summation. The note. - April 25, 2021.
MMСXХXVIII. Recommendations for effective participation in the Lunar Program. A Joke-note. - April 28, 2021.
MMСXL. The original historical concept by Vladimir Zalessky "East-Republican Space Project and the Russial (Soviet) intelligentsia". - April 29, 2021.
MMСXLVII. Auxiliary manual on political economy. (Interview with Aras Agalarov). - May 5, 2021.
MMСXLIX. Successful test of Starship and improvement of the robot Fedor. The essay on the history of space exploration. - May 6, 2021.
MMСLXV. The success of the Chinese Mars program and Russia's space prospects. The essay. - May 15, 2021.
MMСLXVI. On the notion of "great space powers". The original classification of states based on the usage of space technologies. An essay. - May 16, 2021.
MMСLXXXIII. The place and the prospects of the Russial space industry. (Regarding the GLEX conference). An essay. - May 27, 2021.
MMСLXXXVII. From the first onto the third place in the list of great space powers. An essay. - May 29, 2021.
MMСXCIII. A leave from the list of great space powers. (To the history of the 'Nauka' module). An essay. - June 1, 2021.
MMСXCIV. A space programs of the UAE and of Ukraine. An essay. - June 2, 2021.
MMСXCV. Belinsky - Dobrolyubov - Boborykin ... On the concept of "intelligentsia". An essay. - June 2, 2021.
MMСXCVI. A cosmic blues. An essay. - June 3, 2021.
MMСC. Elements of the cosmic diplomacy. An essay. - June 5, 2021.
MMСCI. Next in line are the Food Space Program (PROCOS) and the COSORIZ. The note. - June 6, 2021.
MMСCXIII. Prospects for Russial orbital stations. The reading of the "Pravda" newspaper about the placement of leaders on the Mausoleum. The note. - June 13, 2021.
MMСCXV. 2021, June, 11-13-14. Points of view concerning the modern cosmic problems. And China's modern space program. The note. - June 15, 2021.
MMСCXVIII. The orbital station or the tin can? On the question of China's successes in space. The sketch. - June 16, 2021.
MMСCXX. Completion of the historical stage (March 23, 2001 - June 17, 2021). An essay. - June 17, 2021.
MMСCXXI. Cosmonaut Krikalev and writer Gogol. The note. - June 17, 2021.
MMСCXXV. Russial-Chinese lunar station in period of GLEX. An essay. - June 19, 2021.
MMСCXXVI. Space program of Turkey; Russia, GLEX-2021. An essay. - June 19, 2021.
MMСCXXIX. An avantproject of a three-part Russial TV movie about space. - June 21, 2021.].
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Translation from Russian into English: June 22, 2021 18:55.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сергей Королёв, Илон Маск и эллипсоидные орбиты космических бизнес-устройств. Философский скетч'.