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The rocket Ilona Mask was put into orbit by the Ukrainian: what is known about him

Over the past seven years, Ukrainian Alexei Pakhunov has been responsible for the software for launching and landing missiles at SpaceX. It is he who directs the division of ten programmers writing codes for rockets that the company Ilona Mask launches into space. Writes about it Tv7plus.

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Alexey is from Zhitomir. At one time, he graduated from Khmelnitsky National University with a degree in Computer Systems and Networks Engineer. However, the talented programmer did not stay too long at home, but decided to try his hand abroad. For some time he tried to catch promising work in Romania and Denmark. But even there the guy felt that he was capable of more, and therefore decided to go overseas, to the USA - where brains flock from all over the planet. When I moved to the USA I decided to start your blogto describe all the interesting things that happen to him.

First, the guy found a job at Microsoft. Then he replaced one legendary company with another - Google. And after that, a recruiter from SpaceX contacted him. Alexey says: when applying for a job, he didn’t even have a personal interview with the boss. Musk trusts his recruiters, because he only employs professionals everywhere.

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, who in January 2020 studied at Stanford under the Program for Training New Ukrainian Leaders, first told his compatriots about the Ukrainian programming genius. Then, when he had a window in the educational process, he decided to go on an excursion to Hawthorne (California). There, Alexey, the only employee of Musk’s company who speaks Russian, became his guide. So, the frontman of Okean Elzy learned his story first-hand.

Senior Flight Software Engineer Alexey Pakhunov has been working for Musk since 2013. Under his leadership, ten programmers work who make sure that everything that flies into space from SpaceX “skillfully” accurately enters a given orbit, docks accurately and lands precisely at given coordinates.

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Alexey says that Musk does not interfere with their work and does not interfere in their work. They are required to achieve a result, but how they achieve it is their inner kitchen.

They do not rush to work by nine in the morning and do not count the minutes remaining until 18:00. They do not have work regulations per se. Everyone works as needed and until he falls off his feet. But they forget about fatigue and only remember about it when their next object successfully goes into orbit or returns from it. However, Pakhunov says he is used to this rhythm of work and even finds time for his personal life.

Alexey admits that during these seven years he communicated personally with Musk only twice. The first time was at a corporate event, the second time was under force majeure circumstances, when an important decision had to be made urgently. He liked the first time better, the Ukrainian remarked smiling.

On May 30, Alexey Pakhunov made another entry on his blog. He said that their rocket with astronauts entered a given orbit and docked with the ISS.

“Next stop is Starship,” the programmer optimistically noted on his blog with the strange name “Trampoline.”

After SpaceX, in collaboration with NASA, launched the Falcon 9 manned spacecraft with the Crew Dragon capsule, many people drew the attention of Pakhunov, as he wrote on the blog, reports "Ukrinform".

“The successful launch of the manned Crew Dragon to the International Space Station has deservedly attracted increased attention from both the media and ordinary mortals. Whatever one may say, such events do not happen often... As a result, the news that a Ukrainian works at SpaceX caused a great stir on Facebook and a wave of rumors...” he wrote.

According to Pakhunov, he does not write “all the software that is responsible for the flight of the Crew Dragon,” since several hundred people have been doing this for many years.

Previously, Alexey wrote “software” for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, and now for Starship.

“Of course, since the software for all four is assembled from the same code base, part of my code is used during the Dragon flight,” explains the Ukrainian.

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Alexey's position in Elon Musk's company is called Sr. Software Engineer, that is, “an ordinary but experienced developer.” In 2015, Pakhunov was responsible for the successful landing of the Falcon 9.

“I was actually responsible for the first successful landing of the first stage of Falcon 9 and the launch of Falcon Heavy... SpaceX actively uses the concept of Responsible Engineer (RE). He coordinates the interaction of various groups in a particular area. The responsible engineer's job is not to do all the work himself, but to ensure that all the work (in one specific area) is done by those who have to do it. Without such a responsible engineer, it is easy to forget some important but inconspicuous detail. For example, connect only one end of the cable or forget to perform some important test,” the Ukrainian wrote.

According to him, a responsible engineer from each of the groups providing the launch is appointed for each launch.

“I was the engineer responsible for launching F9-21 (the first successful landing), FH-1 (the first Falcon Heavy launch) and several other launches from the Flight Software group. He was also responsible for ensuring that the flight software loaded onto the rocket included all the planned changes and passed all the necessary tests. Most of the people you see in the mission control center are responsible engineers of various groups,” explains Pakhunov.

He noted that he could not answer many questions that he received regarding work in the company.

“I am very limited in what I can tell about working in the company. In addition to the usual restrictions on the dissemination of classified information, SpaceX employees are subject to ITAR (Arms Export Control Act) restrictions. In fact, I can only talk about what has already (was) published on the Internet and nothing more,” Pakhunov wrote.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • May 27 at around 16:30 New York was supposed to launch the manned spaceX company to the ISS from the United States - an event that the American space industry has been waiting for almost 10 years. But due to adverse weather conditions the launch had to be canceled a few minutes before the start.
  • Twitter users did not miss the opportunity to mock Ilon Mask. Some were especially amused that the astronauts were shod in the most ordinary-looking boots. There were many jokes in the spirit of "I go to such mushrooms."
  • On May 30, a historic flight took place. You can watch the video recording of how this happened link.

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