Have you seen Space X's Falcon 9 launch video? SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 StarLink satellites was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:30 p.m. on April 22.
I watched this live video with Michael on Youtube. Falcon 9 was a success. Space X failed to recover the propellant in the last launch, but this time it succeeded in recovering the rocket. After the rocket launch, the second stage rocket propellant and communications satellites headed into space low orbit, and the first stage rocket propellant landed on a marine Drone barge in the Atlantic Ocean and was safely recovered. On the 27th of next month, Space X's manned spaceship Crew Dragon will conduct its first flight test. So far, Space X has launched seven rockets, increasing the number of communications satellites to 420 in total. Reclaiming a rocket is very useful because it can save a lot of money on launching. In other words, as the recycling technology of rockets advances further, Liftport's communications satellite launch will be cheaper. This week, we are making a Pitch Deck to submit to investors. First, I figured out what Pitch Deck is and how to make it. Pitch Deck is a simple presentation used to provide our audience with a brief overview of our business plans. To create a Pitch Deck, I found PowerPoint Templates, copied, and pasted the link to the Note. A pitch deck should be no longer than 20 slides in length. Ideally, it should be as concise as possible. Finally, I created a sub-title for 10 slides on the Note page. Michael is completing the page by writing down the details of each item. Let me tell you about the progress of the Database I'm making. I've entered almost all of my 1000 business cards into the Note. I numbered each item to sort out the business cards. Then I entered the number on the business card into all the business cards on the Note page. After classifying them as numbers, we can easily manage people with similar characteristics in the Note. The database took more than three weeks to build, and it will all be finished by early next month. I'm so excited to contact my colleagues who will be working on our project soon. Michael said, if Pitch Deck and its investment plan are approved by investors, we could get $1,000,000 after the end of May. I will do my best to help Michael get the budget. Byungik Jung
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The weather in Washington is so clear and sunny these days. I don't have to wear winter clothes and coats anymore because of the cold weather. People began to go out more and more because of the nice weather. I was surprised that There were a lot of cars moving on the freeway.
Spring and new warmth are coming to our company. Michael said he has plans to hire a new intern. Michael was worried about whether the New intern would stay near the company and work in the office or not if he got chosen. I'm a little worried, too. Taking Airplanes and visiting airports are the most susceptible to the virus. If she comes, a variety of work will be needed to ensure our safety. I would like to introduce Korea's virus response and news. Almost 44 million eligible voters were heading to the polls on Wednesday to vote in parliamentary elections, making it the first country with a major coronavirus outbreak to hold nationwide elections since the pandemic began. All vote office was equipped with strict new procedures enacted to protect them on election day. Strict safety and social distancing measures were in place for the vote. It would be provided a roadmap for upcoming elections in other countries, including the Nov. 3 election in the United States. Michael and I spent a lot of time this week posting various photos and works on Redbubble. Of the many artists who worked with LiftPort, there were over 2,000 photos of one artist named Nyein Aung. We sorted out the most profitable of the 2,000 photos and put them in our folder. I posted the remaining photos on Redbubble after I got confirmation from Michael. It took a long time to modify the photo because each product had different photo dimension standards. However, this modification is essential to make a profit through the product. It is not easy and not familiar, but I want to try my best to introduce various works that represent the company to many people. Of the many recent spending plans, the 1 million$ budget plan has been completed. The final version was made by modifying both the content to be included in each item and the expected duration of the project. I typed this data into Smartsheet so that I can see it as a Gantt Chart. The 1 million$ budget plan was rather complicated, but it became definite after Michael made the last modification. This Template was applied to the second expenditure plan, and the contents were added and modified. It still takes more time to complete, but I want to finish it quickly. These days, my classmates seem to be very tired because they only live at home. I am also planning and practicing various indoor activities and study plans to soothe my frustration. Let's all cheer up a little bit and defeat the virus together! Byungik Jung Hi guys! LiftPort' two goals in this month are to decorate and introduce our work. The main goal is to commercialize our project and then make profits. LiftPort Project is very profitable, but It's not a familiar topic for people, and It's hard to define in one sentence. We started this plan to blend our thoughts into daily life and the surrounding environment for people.
Even now, Michael is very busy answering the phone. His phone has no time to rest to introduce and explain our plans. Michael is also considering creating a variety of books and presentations to educate students and people online. So we've started looking for ways to make our plans easier and more accurate for many investors and fans. The LiftPort office and database have a lot of aerospace materials and works of art representing LiftPort. We are planning to use these to make a profit through the P.O.D. platform. P.O.D. stands for Print-On-Demand, a customizable e-commerce platform that allows anyone to create and sell products online from anywhere. First of all, we will create a LiftPort company account on the POD site. We don't make rare and unique things like bags and clothes from a luxury brand. For example, we will design a T-shirt, Home décor, wall art, etc. for things we use frequently in our daily life. The goal is to make people interested by putting pictures that represent LiftPort in their household items. We plan to introduce each product with a carefully selected photo to attract attention and introduce it to the website as well as detailed explanations. I visited various platforms to find the most suitable POD for our plan. The three things that we value the most are quality, product diversity, and yield. Each platform had a variety of policies and styles, making it difficult to choose one. We chose RedBubble and several products will be born soon. Also, we are using Smartsheet to make LiftPort expense planning. We are confident that Smartsheet's Gantt Chart feature will make our spending plans easier to see at a glance. To make better use of Smartsheet, I watched various Smartsheet training materials in Webinar and Youtube. I applied various functions that I learned and transferred the expense plan to Smartsheet which was made with Excel. Lastly, I have listed various items in the order bar and added a brief description. Byungik Jung There was a formal Monday this week. Formal Monday is a time to report to other employees what they learned and worked for a month. After the presentation, other employees ask some questions about it. The presenter will answer questions and receive feedback from other employees.
It was very difficult for me to present in English. As I prepared on the presentation, I found some things I didn't fully understand. So it took longer to prepare the presentation than expected. I explained LiftPort's projects like Oreads and Tight-rope and I showed what I've learned and what I've done. Lastly, I got the feedback from Michael and knew exactly what I was missing or misinformed. I made a business card database with Notion to manage our project partners. Holy moly! The notion has many great tools for making a database. The notion database is special for three reasons. First, They're highly customizable so I can add whatever types of data I want. Second, all item I add are a unique Notion page can organize more information. Third, I can view the same database in several ways to perform actions. So I created new tables to add data like personal information and pictures of the business card. The notion makes it easy to identify information and to classify each item. I haven't finished it yet because I still have a lot of data left to type. But even if it takes a long time, we don't have to worry about losing any data once I've made it. I'm so happy to be able to easily find and contact a business partner for LiftPort with the database I created. Aye Chihuahua! Time went by so fast that already 4 weeks passed and it became April. The United States has a terrible illness of COVID-19. Michael and I check the number of new cases every day on COVID-19 Global Cases at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) website. The U.S. is now more than three times the number of China's confirmed cases and there is no sign that the number will decrease. We are embarrassed by the unexpected Government statement and shocked by the doubling the new cases in four-day cycles. Unfortunately, my internship is at the beginning of the Pandemic statement. Byungik Jung On Thursday, The US overtook Italy and China as the country with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. Americans are suffering and dying because the US Government failed to act quickly and decisively to prevent the virus' spread. The US has now seen about 1,195 deaths and the number is rising rapidly.
The number of confirmed cases has been increasing tremendously every day since the first day I started working at LiftPort. Michael and I are constantly checking the number of confirmed increases and predicting the future. This is because more than 30 percent of the U.S. stock market's fall has resulted and our monthly plans are being further delayed. The coronavirus is changing how we live our daily lives. Whenever I visit the grocery store every week, I am often surprised by the number of people and empty shelves. Toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other hygiene essentials began flying off store shelves weeks ago The ultimate question everyone wants to know is when will the store shelves be restocked The COVID-19 pandemic is gutting the global economy and forcing entire nations into quarantine. In many countries around the world, the 'Social Distance Setting Strategy' is a public health strategy aimed at curbing or delaying the spread of infections. They say that by limiting people's behavior and maintaining the physical distance between people, fewer opportunities for contact, fewer opportunities to transmit COVID-19 to others. There are also a series of countries and regions that seek "lockdown" by blocking countries or regions to forcibly restrict people, citizens and businesses' activities. Never before had the Olympic Games been postponed or canceled for something other than war. But on Tuesday, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach agreed to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by about one year. I came here to experience American culture. I was studying English in San Diego and working in LiftPort, experiencing American culture little by little. However, due to the influence of COVID-19, many cultural facilities in Washington state and Tacoma are not available. I can't freely do outdoor activities with people or even eat out. I explained the rules by studying American football and watching the 2020 Super Bowl LIV with my friends. From now on, we can't go to see the games together at the end of this year. I want to spend more time in the US with you. Let's follow the government's guidelines and defeat the virus altogether. Byungik Jung The moon is one of the largest natural satellite in the solar system, with a quarter of the diameter of the Earth.
As small as it is, gravity is also smaller than Earth. The moon's gravity is only one-sixth of the Earth, so a person weighing 60 kilograms on Earth is only 10 kilograms when he goes to the moon. The acceleration due to gravity is also small, increasing the speed by 9.8 meters per second when an object falls to the ground on Earth, but by about 1.6 meters per second on the moon. Because of this, even the same object falls six times slower than the Earth. Therefore, if you jump in place from the moon, you can jump higher and fall more slowly. If you look at the video taken from the moon by the astronauts of the Apollo program, you can see the balloon jumping up and going down slowly like a little bit. There is no atmosphere on the moon. Because gravity is small, the moon cannot hold the gaseous molecule that forms the atmosphere. So there is no sound or wind on the moon. Sound needs a "Medium" with molecules that can transmit energy, such as air, water, and metal. However, no atmosphere on the surface of the moon acts as a medium, so no sound can be heard. There is no air to move, so there is no wind. As such, the moon's environment is very harsh for life So why do people continue to study and explore the moon? The most fundamental reason is curiosity. The moon was a grateful lighthouse that lit up the night path for mankind for many years and a frightening mystery. But the moon exploration is too huge to be driven only out of curiosity. The reason why advanced countries invest huge budgets, the latest technologies and manpower in lunar exploration is because, above all, exploration of the moon is a matter of pride in science and technology. To get to the moon, you must have good performance Launch Vehicles, the latest technology must be applied to help you live safely in space, and the ability to calculate accurately moving long distances. In a word, lunar exploration is a "Comprehensive art" that combines all the science and technology of a country. Therefore, success in exploring the moon is a testament to how high the country's science and technology are. I am working on building the Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure. I'm not an expert, but I don't think this is an absurd plan. All the little things that go into the artwork combine to create a masterpiece. Pay attention to our plan and join in, it will be all material. Byungik Jung Hello, I am Byungik Jung. I am working as an intern at LiftPort. I majored in aviation information and communication engineering. After graduating from Kyungwoon university, I worked at the Korean Air Command Center as a Network operator. I maintained and monitoring Korean Airline communication network equipment like Router, Switch, VPN monitoring network performance, resolve technical issues. I am participating in the WEST program which is an International Education Exchange program in Korea. The WEST (Work, English Study, Travel) program is a Government-funded overseas program to support university students(youth).
My goal is to develop my core competency and global insight through language and internship training in the U.S. I started working here after two months of language training in San Diego, CA. It's only been a week, so both Tacoma and LiftPort are still unfamiliar to me. However, LiftPort’s leader Michael is helping me adapt to the LiftPort and Tacoma quickly. In the first week at LiftPort, I spent time adjusting to the new environment and making plans. In the meantime, I studied how to use the project management program "Smartsheet" and took classes through Webinar. The most impressive activity was getting an overview of LiftPort's various activities directly from Michael. For example, I've learned a lot about the process and goals of the projects, the systems we're building at EML-1 points, the role of satellites, and so on. I can't wait to do some works at the aerospace company. I will do my best to improve my company's project. My fixed task is to post a blog every week. I want to create a variety of interesting blogs and get people interested in aerospace. I think this is our goal and a way to promote our project more widely. I am going to post the blogs every week because we are finding someone who is having the same plans with us, and will change the world. I think this is important work for our projects. I'm so happy to take this important role. Byungik Jung A new day, a new year, and an anniversary.
It is the 1st of January, 2018. 17 years ago, I started my first “space” company. I launched it in honor of Arthur C Clarke’s famous story of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I knew I wanted to develop something in ‘space’. I had no idea, then, where this journey would lead me. Some might argue that I STILL don’t know where I’m going. I would concur. That company, long-since dissolved, was the start. My Internet company was winding down. We had survived the first round of the dot-com crash of 1998-99, but we were unable to really recover from our height of 24 people working ‘round the clock to hit a client deadline. I could see the writing on the wall, that despite our commitment, talent, and dedication, that our Internet company was doomed. It is hard to pull the plug on something you care about. Harder still, is quitting when other people are still committed to the idea. Hardest of all, is accepting the realities of the situation, and telling your team that we were closing. (I’ve had to do that twice in my career. It doesn’t get easier. I’m glad it doesn’t get easier; I wouldn’t want to be the kind of leader who thinks it’s easy to axe people who were doing good and important work.) But I still had my building, and lots and lots of free-time. I didn’t know what was next… But I had a lot of options. I was about 32 years old, and while I didn’t have a lot of cash in the bank (that cash had gone to keep the Internet company on life support as long as possible) I did have an asset that regularly spit out ongoing cashflow/rent every month. It wouldn’t take very long for me to stabilize once the I closed the Internet company (a few months from then; it turns out that it is very difficult and time-consuming to close down an operation of our size. Although, to be fair, we were just 6 of us, by then.) So I was young, had substantial excess cashflow, a big real estate asset which was gaining in value all the time, and I was bored. What was I going to do next? I went to my friends and family. I went to the ‘net to do some research. I read a lot of books – mostly science fiction. I daydreamed, and I flew my kite from the roof-top of my building. Sometimes, epiphanies come in a flash. I’ve had those a time or two. Other times, like this one, they sneak up slowly, until the answer is so glaringly obvious that you can’t help but accept it as a new truth. I was going to build a space company… But what did that even mean? In the Fall of 2000, there was no such thing as a SpaceX, or Blue Origin – proving that a commercial space company was viable. The idea I had was considered nonsense by most ‘experts’ in the field. As far as most people were concerned, you could only build a space project one way, with three routes to the same destination: government funding via the military, government funding via NASA, or government funding via NASA – through a big contractor. The patronage model – as proven by Paul Allen, Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos – had not come into fashion. Yet. There were some outliers, like “Reverend” Rick Tumlinson and his space cowboys at the Space Frontier Foundation; but I had not met them, yet. (And they might have pioneered the patronage model, by working with Walt Anderson as the first wealthy backer to support the first commercial space station: watch “Orphans of Apollo” for more on that story.) Certainly, there wasn’t any venture capital for space, yet. I don’t believe the Space Angel’s Network existed yet. I am sure that Jeff Greason’s XCOR hadn’t broken that particular glass-ceiling of VC capitalization until several years later. So here I was, not sure what I was doing next; but I had the capacity, and interest. So, I started poking around the ‘net. Looking for opportunities that would match my ambition, skills, and assets. As with most things when you’re learning how to do them, there are stumbles and mis-steps. It wasn’t until the Fall of 2001 when I first met Dr. Edwards, that I caught my first glimpse of what the future might hold. We are nearing the end of the second decade of the 21st century. I have been working on Space Elevators for about 17 years now. And it is only now, this year, when I begin to have hope that all the false starts, cul de sacs, and quicksand we’ve run into, are at an end. It is only now that I begin to have hope that we will succeed in building our Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure. Thank you for joining me on this amazing adventure. Happy New Year! Michael Laine President, LiftPort Group Wow, it has been a while since I’ve posted. I’ll just give you guys a quick update.
Our primary tasks haven’t changed. They still are: finish the book, build the Technical Advisory Council, and find investors. Michael is manning the phone trying to real in some capital for us. I, on the other hand have been promoted from the role of intern to the role of Research Coordinator. Before I can start coordinating projects, we have to contract the researchers who are going to work on these projects. Therefore, my main job has been to contract and on-board members of the TAC and build the infrastructure after they have agreed to joining with Michael. This work includes a lot of sending emails, contracts and various forms, back and forth between TAC members and I as we accumulate them. This is an unbelievable experience for me as I have just finished my undergraduate education and my first real employment after college has turned into me coordinating with Masters and PhD level professionals. In total, we have contracted about 15 TAC members, with hopes that will drastically increase in the weeks to come. In other news, LiftPort Group finally has an office in a beautiful building in downtown Tacoma that used to be a courthouse. This has been really powerful, mostly in regards to focusing ourselves and our work at a location. Now I go to work in the morning and say things like, “I’m heading to the office!” which has been very fun and a big step in the rebuilding process for LiftPort. I will try to post more frequently, -Jeremy Wain Hirschberg Whats up world!?
A few days ago, Michael offered me a job during the school year! I am going to be in charge of building out the YouTube Channel. At least, that’s what its looking like Im going to do. In all honesty I am both really excited and a little nervous to be taking on this responsibility. Since this is something I have never done before I have a lot to learn. I don’t really have a background in video editing either, so the learning curve is extra steep. As for whats in store for the channel Im not really 100% sure. I would love to start with a short mini series that outlines all the major systems that are working together to make LSEI work. The fact of the matter is that there are countless systems that go into the elevator, the space station, the mining operation, and space based solar power just to make them work on their own. Other Ideas range from monthly LiftPort Group updates to a weekly space news show. Before I really know for sure, I am going to need to see how long it really takes to make a quality video (im sure its going to be much longer then I am expecting). Long term it would be really cool to see the LiftPort YouTube channel grow into an actual asset. I see YouTube as a great Avenue for us to keep the community updated and would love for it to be a prized possession of LiftPort. In order for the channel to make it to a successful place Im going to need some help, so Im going to try to keep the community involved! If anyone is interested in helping or has any advice I would love to hear it! If you, or anyone you know has any experience with YouTube and video editing and would be interested in helping out with the project, comment letting us know you’re interested! See you all next time, Griffin |
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