Ash Dove-Jay

Husband. Father. @orbastro. South African origins.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@pierrenovellie rgds Oxford on Friday, my brain has been painted like the cubical walls in your former gym. It keeps taking me back to a moment where you’re inspecting the scene a la Sherlock Holmes. Pipe. Hat. ASDeducing. So…thanks for that 😗👌💩

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

.@anderssandberg I thought that printing your Grand Futures manuscript would make it easier to review/consume. No book printers I could find go to 1400 pages, so I had to double-page it. I would not want to fall asleep with this on my chest..

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

Our first 12U-class satellite has been despatched for launch next month via an ISRO PSLV, our 4th satellite launch of the year! This will be hosting a compelling AOCS; coupling an Aliena Pte Ltd Hall thruster with Aurora Propulsion Technologies resistojets! @spacenews @ESABICUK

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

Maybe I am wrong?

*There are obvious military applications with a much more tangible/larger markets. The satellite one is removing from orbit does not need to be a dead one.

** e.g. deadman switch for active/accelerated de-orbiting, mandatory modest propulsion, beacons, etc.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

Space junk? Active debris removal may get a lot of headlines, but I think it will very much remain in the fringe of managing the issue*, like clearing aircraft wreckage from the runway.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

As such, government funding should be balanced accordingly to effectively address the issue. Funding R&D purporting to active debris removal efforts is much more likely to manifest itself in alternative applications unrelated to side-stepping the Kessler Syndrome.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

Suddenly my focus and trajectory are super-charged.

But have I become William Riker?

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

Cannot wait until someone releases a GPT-like product with vocal inputs enabled, and a hyper-realistic talking head of my choosing with vocal outputs … Jean Luc Picard, with his own dedicated monitor in my work setup.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

Now give him ready-access to my screen/typing, and a high quality camera and microphone for training on and tracking of my facial micro-expressions and vocal intonations. Give him my daily to-do list, and a set of values I aspire towards holding myself to.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@daltonc This one was a little off the mark 🤦‍♂️. We’re a space technology company..

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

First fully commercial deep-space mission ever. @OrbAstro is building a 100kg-class spacecraft for @AstroForge for an asteroid fly-by mission, launching in Q4-23 with @Int_Machines on a @SpaceX rocket.

AstroForge: https://t.co/h5dZP30fst
OrbAstro: https://t.co/yfKUUPFQMY

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@davecawthorn @elonmusk Perhaps. I assume the $/kg cost saving of FH vs F9 could justify the spend on a new fairing design.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@SamoBurja sometimes you need a hard copy.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

“Ash Dove-Jay lays out two starkly different futures for humanity, and poses it is only the coming few generations that will dictate which path we take.”

https://t.co/wDLYClFQMv

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

We're hiring:
- Satellite Engineers
- Embedded Systems/FPGA Engineers
- Senior Electronics/RF Engineer
- Supply Chain & Procurements Manager

OrbAstro is scaling. Though we keep a low profile, we are a high-impact and high-tech space company achieving disproportionately.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@SpaceCraigUK Love how it doesn’t let you binge — might be part reason to its success. Maybe a promising model for mobile games in future, or maybe just a novelty?

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@DariniV @julie_renbe This was awesome.

[Ash Dove-Jay @AshDoveJay]

@danibrownmbe @GMCbooks Gutted I missed this. I had to shoot off early (kids). Looking forward to seeing it online.