W1SEG

Amateur Radio Station


  • Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
    —Henry Petroski


quote Jeff Dexter

A critical part of our success is our willingness to fail in ways that won’t compromise the mission, as long as we are constantly learning from our failures.
—Jeff Dexter, SpaceX software team

W1SEG Amateur Radio Station


quote Jeff Dexter

A critical part of our success is our willingness to fail in ways that won’t compromise the mission, as long as we are constantly learning from our failures.
—Jeff Dexter, SpaceX software team


  • Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
    —Henry Petroski