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German to English: The reason for innovation at SpaceX is their business model General field: Science Detailed field: Astronomy & Space
Source text - German Elon Musk, Gründer von SpaceX, erklärte, es gebe kein „Silver Bullet“, also keinen einzelnen Faktor, der den Preisunterschied zwischen seinen Raketenstarts und anderen Projekten erkläre. Stattdessen habe eine ganze Kette von Detaillösungen zum Erfolg geführt.
Zum Beispiel beruht der Datenverkehr innerhalb der Rakete auf Ethernet-Technologie. So lässt sich das Gewicht ganzer Bündel von seriellen Kabeln einsparen. Die Falcon 9 verwendet außerdem nur einen Triebwerktyp für beide Antriebsstufen. So können diese in großer Anzahl angefertigt und damit pro Stück günstiger werden. Ähnliche Skaleneffekte gab es auch bei der Konzeption der Tanks und vieler anderer Bauteile.
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Durch solche Vereinfachungen ist außerdem der Entwicklungsprozess für SpaceX besser koordinierbar. Tatsächlich scheint der Schlüssel zur Innovationsfähigkeit bei SpaceX im Industriedesign zu liegen. Die Fertigung der Raketen und fast aller Teile geschieht unter einem Dach in den Konstruktionsbüros im kalifornischen Hawthorne. Einen „Bienenstock“ nennt das Elon Musk: Die Ingenieure sitzen in den Werkstätten und entwickeln Fertigungsprozesse und Bauteile gleichzeitig. „Erst diese Entwicklungsstruktur ermöglicht ihnen diese vielen Innovationen“, sagt Nosanov. „Ich denke, das ist ihre größte Leistung.“
Translation - English Elon Musk, CEO and founder of SpaceX once explained, that there is no single factor, "no silver bullet”, that can explain the massively reduced costs of his rocket launches. Instead, a chain of small solutions lead to success. Then what did SpaceX do such much better? For instance, communication between different parts of their rockets is based on off-the-shelf ethernet technology, saving the weight of bundles of serial cables. Also, the Falcon 9 uses just one type of engine, the Merlin engine, for both rocket stages, allowing the per engine cost to drop through mass production. Similar scaling effects are at work for fuel tanks and several other main components. Through simplifications of this kind, the various stages of rocket construction and development become easier to coordinate. Indeed, the key to innovation at SpaceX appears to reside in their culture of industrial design: all rocket parts are manufactured under the same roof at the construction offices in Hawthorne, California. Musk calls it “the hive”: engineers designing rockets and engineers designing the machines that build rockets work together under the same roof, feedback loop between product design, production and tooling. “It is this kind of development regime, which allows them all these little innovations”, Nosanov says. “I think this is really their biggest achievement.”
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I am a bilingual science journalist and translator, working in Berlin (Germany). I hold a PhD in Neuroscience from Oxford University (UK) and have several years of experience in translation between English and German (and vice versa) as well as copy writing in both languages. Due to my strong background in biomedical sciences, I am well positioned to translate specialist and popular scientific texts alike.
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