 Hola y saludos a todos. Bonjour tout le monde. Welcome to Children of Planet Earth. Progress can be measured not only by the extent of our knowledge but by increasing awareness of all that remains to be discovered. In the 21st century humans will again leave their home planet for voyages of discovery and exploration. What we find out up there helps us live better lives with fear. We'll make steady progress one mission, one voyage one landing at a time. Will we respond to the changes of our time? With fear, we face the future with confidence in who we are in what we stand for and the incredible things that we can do together. Hello my name is Antonio Neri, President CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Thank you for joining us today aboard North Ogroman Signals spacecraft which is named in honor of late NASA astronaut Patricia Robinson the third iteration of HP's Spaceborne solution will lift off for the International Space Station. Together with NASA and the ISS National Lab and only possible through HP and Kyoxas partnership we're bringing the most powerful AI and high performance compute capability with the greatest memory capacity to ever go into space. And this significant combination will allow the international scientific community to further explore space and protect and sustain our planet. Today at Kennedy Space Center our ongoing multi-year mission of discovery and exploration begins a new chapter. On behalf of HP I wish the SS Patricia Robinson well on its journey to the International Space Station. George, thank you. Thank you Antonio. Hello and welcome to the launch of the HP Spaceborne Computer to the International Space Station. Today the third iteration of the HP Spaceborne Computer will climb into orbit aboard the North Ogroman's Signals spacecraft the SS Patricia Robinson named in honor of the late NASA astronaut. My name is Alexis Gonzalez and I'm joined today by my friend and colleague Morgan. It's an exciting day, isn't it? It certainly is. As you know that today's journey is our third mission to the space station. Our first was in 2017 the second in 2021 and now here we are with our third in 2024. The first two were award-winning and extremely successful. All of us at HPE can't wait to see what new discoveries this version of the HP Spaceborne Computer will help unlock. Absolutely. So hey Adrian, I'm wearing a space suit. Why aren't you wearing a space suit? But I am. You can see here beside me we're going to be showing the NASA live feed from the launch pad. So SLC 40 at the Kennedy Space Center. We're going to keep an eye on that throughout our show leading up to lift off very short a few minutes away. Leading up to lift off we're going to share some of the background on the program, what we've been and what we will be doing aboard the station orbiting Earth at over 250 miles high and moving at 17,000 miles per hour. So Adrian the previous HP Spaceborne Computers were they were unique in many ways but there's something even more special about this one isn't there? There are many special aspects of this system but this version of Spaceborne is not only bringing to the station again the most powerful computer to ever go into space but it's also shipped with 130 terabytes of storage the largest amount of computer storage to ever go into space as well. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's via our partnerships with our friends over at Keoxia, correct? That is right and a great friend and supporter of the Spaceborne program, their CMO Cesar Icumbora has quick message for everyone. Let's hear from Cesar San team please roll that video. Hello Keoxia and HP employees and friends it's a part of launch of the NG20 mission. We're excited to join Hewlett-Packard Enterprise with the Spaceborne System 2 that is heading to its national space station. We work very closely with HPE and are sending over 132 terabytes of flash-based storage for the scientific experiments to be conducted in space. Together we're excited to take edge computing to a new level through real-time processing of tasks in space. Thank you to HPE, NASA Northrop Grumman and SpaceX for this opportunity to be part of the history. We wish all the members of NG20 team success with the mission to the ISS. So, enjoy the launch and let's make some memories in space. And for my Japanese friends and colleagues Good afternoon everyone. Thank you Thank you Mr. Ichimura for the message and to everyone at KIOXIA for their support of the HPE Spaceborne Project. Adrian, our partnership goes way beyond this project though, correct? Oh, absolutely Alexa. Together we are delivering some of the most capable and high-performance AI and ML-enabled systems available in the world. We are doing some great stuff with KIOXIA. Outstanding partner. Well, as everyone can see, NASA is giving us some really nice shots of the launch pad. Let's see here. We are T minus, it looks like 15 minutes, is that correct, Adrian? We seem to be T minus 15 minutes in and so, yeah that's going to be interesting. Let's get on with our program so that we can enjoy the last minutes. Yes, very good. All right, let's go over and see our senior director of our global technical marketing team and space technologist and solutions group, Mr. Norm Follett who's at the Kennedy Space Center now. Norm, welcome. How are things out there at the Cape? They're getting really, really exciting. So thank you for everyone for joining us today. We gave you a little glimpse here earlier of what we're going to be standing on. I'm at Merritt Island at Kennedy Space Center. In the background here we see launch pad 40. That's where the spacecraft is going to be flying from. This is a very unique mission. Now, Spaceborne 1 flew on a pure SpaceX rocket. Spaceborne 2 flew on a pure Northrop Grumman rocket. That means the Cygnus spaceship and the rocket system as well. This mission is flying on the hybrid. It's unique. It's flying on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Cygnus spacecraft on top of it. And so that gives us a whole other dynamic to enjoy today. Not only the lift off but the return to the pad of the Falcon 9 rocket. And I think we've got many members of the press here, many dignitaries and VIPs and everyone's getting really excited as that clock ticks down. That looks so amazing Norm. I know many out there are watching wish they're right there with you We'll check back with you in a few minutes. Adrian, why don't we give our viewers an opportunity to learn a bit more about that Spaceborne project we're working on. Yeah, that's a great idea. Let's take a look at this video that we did in partnership with the ISS National Lab which really gives a great overview of where we've been and where we're going. Team roll that tape. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise we use it to advance the way people live and work. Pushing the envelope is part of our DNA. From the early days, Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett created technologies to solve some of the world's toughest challenges including space travel. Spaceborne is a collaboration between HPE, NASA and the International Space Station National Lab. NASA asked us if we could take one of their state-of-the-art modified compute nodes and see, A, if we could get it on to a rocket and that it would survive the shake-riling roll of launch. B, could it survive the mission up to the International Space Station and C, could the astronauts install it and it be operated properly? Spaceborne Computer was a proof of concept. Can we do this? NASA was, yes, we can. With Spaceborne Computer 2 we're bringing state-of-the-art advanced edge computing as well as AI capabilities to space. This will allow our space explorers to take the massive amount of data they collect on the space station and process it there without having to transmit it back down to Earth and process it here. Spaceborne Computer 2 includes systems from HPE called the Edge Line System. These Edge Line Systems are designed, manufactured and targeted for edge systems such as in space, the edge of the edge. This also includes factories, ships, trains, airplanes, tanks. HPE will be proven in space and available on Earth taking advantage of those Edge Line design characteristics in our product. I believe we are needing the end of the information era. As we leave that era, we enter into the age of insight characterized by data analysis that will generate insights and discoveries not possible today. The purpose of exploration is insight and if we can use state-of-the-art edge computing and AI capabilities to bring about that insight sooner, all of humanity will benefit. I like that video and hearing from Chief Scientist on the project, Dr. Mark Fernandez. Describe what we're doing and why. It's always inspiring to me. Absolutely. Mark is a great scientist and a great colleague. Well, here we are. Let's check back with the NASA live feed. We're going to see how far we are out from the launch. And now let's check. And we'll check back in with Norm. Norm, what's latest from the site? Hey, it's getting pretty intense here. I'm actually having to defend the space now. Hey, we have a camera. So a bunch of people are coming out on the lawn here. We're on the press site activity. So that shot you saw earlier of the vertical launch assembly building is now starting to fill up with people. So it's just super exciting. The clock is ticking, but you know, Alexa, this is not my first time at Kennedy Space Center. I think you recall the trip you and I took a couple of years ago here, right? That's correct. We did for our virtual discover event. We did a show here from Kennedy Space Center talking about a space program and during that remote demonstration, if you will, I had a chance to speak with the distinguished Mr. Rick Mastrocchio, an absolutely wonderful guy, a pioneer in space, a retired NASA astronaut that's currently the Vice President of Business Development for Northrop Grumman. Again, our partner on this mission. So why don't we go ahead and take a quick look at that conversation? So team, go ahead and roll the tape. So to kick things off, we're really excited to have our good friend, Rick Mastrocchio join us. Director of Business Development from Northrop Grumman, Rick, welcome. Thank you for having me. Thanks for making the trip. Now, Rick, obviously by your jacket, you are a real astronaut and experienced astronaut with many, many space flights behind you. I'm a former NASA astronaut from Northrop Grumman, that's right. So we happen to be standing in front of one of your old trusty steeds, the Atlantis Space Shuttle, the real shuttle here, and you flew on the Mission 106, I believe. Yes, my first space shuttle mission was STS 106 in 2000, one of the very early assembly missions of the International Space Station. We were actually arrived before the first crew moved in and part of our job was to get the crew to install the toilets, get the crew quarters ready, have all the science experiments ready for when the first crew moved in a month later in fall of 2000 and people have been living on board the International Space Station ever since. Yeah, and I think it's 20 years. More than 20 years in November. So I think you were, I mean, you could say you were the last gap there between, you know, you locked the doors and then, you know, the next crew opened it up to visit the International Space Station before anybody lived there. I went back a few years later and three folks were living there. I went back a few years later and six folks were living there. And then I went back a few years later and I was living there. So I got to see the whole progression of things. Yeah, and that's pretty unique. Again, three shuttle missions. Three shuttle missions plus a Soyuz mission. A Soyuz mission. So you rode the Russian delivery system where a Soyuz vehicle is very small compared to the space shuttle, which is, you know, obviously an incredible vehicle. Now, in your in your space shuttle days, I mean, you really joined the space program. Well, you weren't, I mean, you weren't in the, you were a pilot. You're an engineer. Right. So how did you kind of get involved or even, you know, really realize that you could actually be an astronaut? Right. So I grew up in Connecticut and it was very far from any NASA centers. So I really didn't even know it was possible to become an astronaut back then. After I got my master's degree, I was living in Connecticut, working and actually the story is, my wife saw an advertisement in a magazine and I responded to that advertisement. One ad. One ad. Of course now it's all on the internet, but back then it was in a magazine. And so I sent in an application and I was called by NASA not to go down and work as an astronaut, but to come down and work as an engineer. So that's how I started my career at NASA was I worked as an engineer for several years. Then I worked in mission control for several years before finally getting selected as an astronaut after nine years of trying. That must have been an exciting moment. It was very exciting. Yeah. Now, you kind of had a very specific purpose and you kind of utilized this spacecraft I mean it was it was purpose built to do this kind of job and you mentioned that, your three missions up and you really were one of the people that really worked on assembling the station. And that's kind of a short list of people. I think on this spacecraft, 207 different astronauts flew, which you were one and then again you flew on the endeavors. I flew on Discovery and Endeavour as well. My three shuttle missions were on three different space shuttles. I got to go visit all three of those in the various museums. Wow, that's terrific. So let's just take a moment and let's learn a little bit about Rick's first gig, so to speak in the assembly of the International Space Station. The International Space Station or ISS took many years to become a reality. In 1984 the United States announced a project called Space Station Freedom. Here's some drawings of what the original station might have looked like. It was never actually built in its original form. There were lots of redesigns and its funding was almost completely cut by US Congress. Then in 1993 after several other countries were brought on board, the name was officially changed to the International Space Station. Five years later, construction begins in space. I'll show you the complete construction process, but first let's learn a little bit more about the station. This is the ISS as it looks today. It's mainly used to conduct science experiments that can only be done in space. There's usually six astronauts on board the station. They generally switch out about every six months so that no one spends too much time in space. The station is about the size of an American football field. It's located just outside the Earth's atmosphere. This is called low Earth orbit. It's not very high up considering that some satellites orbit way out here. The ISS only takes about 92 minutes to orbit the Earth. That's about 28,000 kilometers per hour. Over time the ISS will slowly lose altitude. If nothing was done, the station would eventually burn up as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere. To prevent this, the station must be periodically reboosted to stay in space. The main countries now participating are United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, and many countries from the European Space Agency. Let's get to know the main parts of the station. The integrated truss structure is kind of like the backbone of the station. It holds the solar arrays to generate electricity, radiator panels these remove heat from the station, and other equipment and science experiments are also attached. This part down here contains the pressurized modules, which means the astronauts can live and work in here without a space suit. All of the Russian modules make up the Russian orbital segment. The other side is called the United States orbital segment. It's made up of modules from the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The different pieces of the station, also called modules, were built in many locations around the globe. Each module was then launched into space by one of these three rockets, the American Space Shuttle, the Russian Proton rocket, and the Russian Soyuz rocket. Once in space, it's time to put it all together. This is definitely not your average Lego set. Once construction started, the ISS took a little over a decade before it was considered complete. What a great conversation that you guys had, Norm. So can you tell us a little bit more about Rick and what's going on now? Well, I think Rick should be in the astronaut hall of fame. 56 hours outside assembling four missions. Just a terrific colleague, and he continues to have impact on the space program. But I think what's our clock? You guys have the clock in front of you. I think we're within about two minutes now of the actual launch. Yes. Let's make sure we have the NASA feed. And as I mentioned earlier, there's going to be about a 10 step process that this thing's going to go through. And as I mentioned earlier, because this is a Falcon 9 rocket on with a Cygnus spacecraft, it's going to be a little bit different. So there's two different things. There's going to be a little bit of a space ballet taking place above us as the Cygnus goes up and separates and as the Falcon 9 rocket comes down. So a couple of just a quick steps to look at here. Alexa, what's the time count? What do you guys got? 136. So what happens? Yeah, what happens after zero? Well, right after zero, we have lift off, right? And then it goes to a point right within the first minute, it's called max Q. That's where the maximum pressure, atmospheric pressure is actually on the spacecraft itself and about the two minute mark, you might see the engines cut off. Now they that's actually by design and that reduces a bit of the stress and then they fire right back up and then we get into what's called Mako, which is a main engine cutoff. So that happens right at about the three minute mark and that's totally normal. That's expected. Then we have stage separation and that's where the first stage and the second stage separate from each other. The second stage then initiates its engine. Now that's only one engine, so it's not going to look like a massive burn compared to the nine engines in the Falcon 9, which is going to be a little bit more dramatic when you see that. And then the and then the ballet begins with the landing of the Falcon 9 rocket as it goes through. It's called a backburn boost and that really just orients itself to get it in the right position for it to fall and it is literally falling straight down to the earth. And as it gets a little bit closer you actually see the first stage landing burn and then the first stage landing. Now that's going to be taking place to the south of us. 15 seconds minus 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Ignition Engine full power and with go, go, go, Falcon and there it goes. The signals begin their flight taking aim on the international space station. Here we go guys. Falcon 9, marking out to the northeast. Whoa, okay. I'm going to need to hear a pressure from it. At T plus 40 seconds Falcon 9 has accepted. This is our 10th mission of the year and second to the international space station and we've throttled down our engines in preparation for Max Q, which is coming up here in a few seconds. This is the largest structural load. This is the largest structural load that the vehicle will see on ascent. Max Q Great news. We've passed through Max Q and are throttling those engines back up. Next up will be 5. So I mean thinking about this and how many different investigations and how many different scientific studies are going to come off of this rocket is so impressive to be able to think. I believe there's about 46 that are going to be on here. All 9 M1D engines on the Falcon 9 first days will shut down. In order for us to study all of that up at the ISS. Yeah, the load capacity of these rockets is enormous and that means that every flight to the ISS they can get thousands of pounds of scientific experiments to be performed. To land with the boost back burn. Shortly thereafter the fairing halves will separate and expose the spacecraft to the vacuum of space. Again those 5 events coming up in a few seconds MECO stage separation SES-1 the boost back burns starting up as well as fairing separation. Next should be Managing cutoff stage separation confirmed. We have a separation there guys. You guys got the NASA feed? Yes, we're watching live the NASA feed. And there is actually a couple of seconds in between your feed and the NASA feed so we're comparing contrast. Yes, between those. So the boost back just happened according to NASA and we're closing in on fairing release. Okay so Grace is going to try to see if she can find it from our camera so as it comes down to the south we're just actually kind of mimicking all the other camera men out here. They all seem to be pointing in the specific area. They've done this before. Right now taking place beyond our view is that the second stage is fired I'm sure they're sharing some of that information on the NASA feed and they're showing a beautiful shot of that second stage firing its engine and it's amazing how detailed that picture is. And great call-outs that both vehicles are on nominal trajectories. Some awesome views on your screen again on your left-hand side is a view from the first stage on your right-hand side is a view from the second stage looking at our MBAC engine. You're watching a live webcast for NG-20 Northrop Grumman's 20th resupply mission to the orbiting laboratory. This is SpaceX's 10th mission for 2024 and the second flight to the International Space Station just this year. You might be interested. But you also see pulse burns going on. And so it's working its way to orient itself completely vertical to fall in a straight downward direction. Yeah, and it's coming to landing pad one. That's what they call it. Landing pad one. They have a couple of landing pads here or they land it on a ship as we've seen a few times before. But this one's coming back to the Cape itself. Yeah, and that's one of the more recent developments of SpaceX where initially they always did it on barges in the ocean and now more and more they feel confident to use landing pads for this. Okay, so my impression is that we're now almost completely vertical to make its way back to its landing zone. We've already completed the boost back burn for the vehicle as it oriented itself heading back towards land. Next up will be the entry burn and that's where three of the Merlin engines will reignite. This helps to slow the vehicle down as it reenters the upper parts of the Earth's atmosphere and then we'll be followed by the last burn which is the landing burn. That's a single engine burn that begins on the NASA feed right now. I'm pretty sure I see on the left side of the screen the stage one coming down and every now and again using its bottom engine to break and its side engines to stay appropriately vertical compared to previous landings it seems like everything is going okay and now we see the downward camera and again this is an extremely high resolution camera we can see the floor of the coast and we can see the bottom engine pulsing here it comes, here it comes see if you can get that Grace so actually I think we're seeing two feeds one from Cygnus climbing to orbit and then the one on the left side is the space next rock coming down. Yes, your feed is ahead of the NASA feed and you can see that the landing burn has begun for the vehicle let's watch as Falcon 9 touches back down on land. Stage 2, FDS has saved stage one landing like deploy so it just made a perfect touchdown on the NASA feed it's amazing it was completely centered and it's like the one million dollar shot. We have people dancing in the field right now celebrating this great moment and as I mentioned earlier this was a unique launch unique in that it was a combination of partners in that you had Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft riding for the first time on top of a Falcon 9 rocket there are three such missions scheduled Adrian earlier you were talking about UN Alexa we're talking about some of the science and some of the things that is actually on that payload so we are flying with a whole series of scientific investigations that the ISS National Lab is sponsoring and we have positioned the most capable computer and storage system ever to go to space to support that experimentation at the edge so it's going to be an exciting time we're going to end up we'll literally have an unboxing in space probably in early March I think is the current schedule no later than I think the first week of March and that's when the Spaceborne Computer gets installed back into the Columbus module now it's actually in the ceiling of the Columbus module and then we go operational and Dr. Mark Fernandez as his team once again began the journey of scientific discovery and exploration 254 miles above the planet Earth at the edge of the edge back to you guys in Houston okay great well thank you so much Norm do we want to roll some of the slides where we're showing some of our sponsors that we've had throughout this entire program so first of all we did you know we've shared a lot about Kyokes you're very excited to have them along I want to give a little bit of a thank you to the Intel team they've been supportive as we've gone through the process as well and then of course our partners with what we're doing with Northrop Grumman and really the ISS National Lab and NASA and there's going to be a variety of partnerships and investigations that are really going to emerge we also have some you know in space experimentation we're going to do with a company our new company friends a company called Astrolab that we're also pushing the envelope on some other ideas and other notions with them as well but if we could pull up the slide I want to give a major shout out to the HPE Spaceborne team this is a core group of people that have been working on this project since about seven of them about 2017 a few of us have come on board a little bit later a lot of it is volunteerism and support from their managers to allow them to peel off at periodic moments in time and do this very special and incredible work so they should be they and their families members past present and perhaps you a team member in the future should all be very proud of this moment for Hewlett Packard Enterprise so with that I'm going to be signing off this is Norm Follett from Kennedy Space Center and as they say in the air have a good day thanks so much for joining me Alexa, Adrian back to you Norm, thank you so much and to my good friend Adrian as well I really appreciate you being here thank you to everyone for joining us we're going to take off as well but as we close the show let's take everyone on one more peek of the ISS National Lab video that does a great job of summarizing what we're going to be doing up for the next years up on the space station on behalf of everyone at Hewlett Packard Enterprise thank you for joining us today and stay tuned for updates on this exciting program this is HP Houston signing off at Hewlett Packard Enterprise our purpose is to advance the way people live and work pushing the envelope is part of our DNA from the early days they parked and built Hewlett created technologies to solve some of the world's toughest challenges including space travel Spaceborne is a collaboration between HPE, NASA and the International Space Station National Lab NASA asked us if we could take one of their state of the art unshielded, unmodified compute nodes and see A if we could get it onto a rocket and that it would survive the shape rolling roll of launch B could it survive the mission up to the International Space Station and C could the astronauts install it and it be operated properly Spaceborne computer was a proof of concept can we do this? NASA was yes we can with Spaceborne computer 2 we're bringing state of the art advanced edge computing as well as AI capabilities to space this will allow our space explorers to take the massive amount of data they collect on the space station and process it there without having to transmit it back down to Earth and process it here Spaceborne computer 2 includes systems from HPE called the edge line system these edge line systems are designed, manufactured and targeted for edge systems such as in space the edge of the edge this also includes factories, ships trains, airplanes, tanks HPE will be proven in space and available on Earth taking advantage of those edge line design characteristics in our product I believe we are needing the end of the information era as we leave that era we enter into the age of insight characterized by data analysis that will generate insights and discoveries not possible today the purpose of exploration is insight and if we can use state of the art edge computing and AI capabilities to bring about that insight sooner all of humanity will benefit