We’re driving up to Salt Lake City for the Smallsat Conference. Staying in Mesquite, NV tonight, then Park City for the first half of the week. I’ll have laptop, but not sure how much posting I’ll be doing. Comments are open.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Space Transportation Policy
The president has issued a memorandum. I’m skimming it right now, but new policy was definitely needed with the upcoming planned cadence of launch, landing, and entry.
Forty Years Of Foresight
I’ve known Eric for almost half a century, and Chris for forty years. My colleague Jim Bennett, another founder, is also briefly shown.
American Shipbuilding
…is back, despite the Jones Act.
Data Centers
Thoughts from Jeffrey Carter.
This resistance to building them down here is probably going to help industrialize space.
What Rubber Hits The Road
When the state determines it.
Tire dealers in Nevada and Arizona are clicking their champagne glasses. I’ll bet that there will also be a lot of Amazon deliveries.
California doesn't do these things for "efficiency", and the cost increase isn't an unfortunate side effect…it's the whole point. CA leaders deliberately make driving financially painful with the goal of forcing you onto public transport. They brag about it in legislation. https://t.co/PUjhkJwt2N
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 19, 2026
Russia’s Destruction Continues
Ukraine strikes at the very heart of the Russian space program. https://t.co/YzcYwx5whw
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) August 15, 2026
Throttling The Bureaucrats
— Michelle L.D. Hanlon (@hanlonesq) August 12, 2026
This may be the most visionary and sensible NASA administrator ever.
[Update a while later]
Jared’s post was presumably in response to this:
Reading this is incredibly radicalizing. I want to do the exact opposite after reading this. It also oozes with AI-written prose. Fitting, as it’s anti-human and is intended to stop settlement of Mars. https://t.co/tHunJ5UX6s
— Robotbeat🗽 ➐ (@Robotbeat) August 12, 2026
Med Students And AI
Are they surrendering their brains to it?
Long March 7A Failure
“fts” sure pic.twitter.com/I66MM1niB0
— Michael France (@michaelsrockets) August 10, 2026
I didn’t know that Chinese rockets even had FTS. Looks more like a Max-Q failure to me.
[Update a few minutes later]
A Chinese CZ-7A was launched today from Wenchang, but the flight ended about ~80 seconds into the flight with an explosion. Reportedly it carried the military geostationary communications satellite ZX 4B.https://t.co/9J6Eo4VR9l pic.twitter.com/prMzeN2ofY
— Gunter Krebs 🚀 🛰 🇺🇦 🇬🇱🏳️🌈 (@Skyrocket71) August 10, 2026
[Update a while later]
It's hard to tell how much the video screen footage is slowed down, but here's a rough attempt at syncing two views: pic.twitter.com/oXiHZNYglK
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) August 10, 2026