hi, it‘s time to wake up
i‘m ben, 21 years old and a dual-study aeronautics student at @airbus
i’ve been sleeping for way too long on what’s still waiting to be built in aerospace
so follow me here as i share my projects and what i’m learning
having a role model is underrated
when i decided to double down on this career, i looked up people who followed a similar path
i found @hanskoenigsmann, who first studied in germany, then moved to the us and eventually became the 4th engineer at @spacex
personally, i‘m aiming for a move like that too, to develop myself in the us during my aerospace master’s and gain valuable experience
of course it‘s important to go your own way and not fully copy someone else’s life
but having a role model helps show you what paths are possible and how all that hard work could potentially pay off in the future
@SparkassenKing das ist meiner Meinung nach auch der Typus Aufgabe, der absolut unnötig ist und nicht geprüft werden sollte
die Ingenieure von morgen sollten mehr können als auswendig lernen
@yacineMTB failures are the single most important thing in developing a product
you can run endless analysis, but in the end a hardware test does the job the best
now it‘s just important to get back up and rebuild while learning from this
@EmekaBuilds_@arduino@princess_yfe that‘s what it‘s all about!
currently working on a few theoretical projects myself, so definitely need to touch some more hardware soon as well
today Jon Reijneveld the chief engineer and co-founder of The Exploration Company (TEC) held a lecture at my uni
it was planned for an hour, but it lasted more than two and a half
and honestly, it was one of the most insightful engineering talks I’ve attended so far
he didn’t just talk about Nyx, their cargo capsule, but also about what it takes to build a space startup
how to start small, test early, fail fast and turn every lesson into the next better version of your product
left the room with even more ambition for aerospace