Peter Beck explains the low flight rate of Electron.
There are many more small launchers than there is demand for them. And if my idea about equatorial LEO happens (and I think it’s inevitable), there will be no market for them at all.
[Tuesday-morning update]
I’m both fascinated and amused at the degree to which intelligent commenters are having difficulty wrapping their heads around the ELEO concept.
It seems unavoidable to me (and I’m pretty sure we’re already in one, despite the weirdness factors).
I’ve been saying for decades that I’d never raise a kid in California; they should be raised someplace with weather and culture that will make them tougher, and then be allowed to move there. But now the state has provided another reason.
In the face of multiple failures, the company is changing its strategy.
I bought a bunch of November calls on ASTR at fourteen bucks each as lottery tickets after the most recent failure, when the stock price fell to a buck and a half, on the hope that the next launch this summer would be successful. Now they may expire worthless, and I’ll lose about three hundred bucks. But November is still three months away, and the stock could still rally on news.
The NIH, CDC, and FDA (not to mention the Department of Agriculture) have been a public-health disaster.
This does seem promising for organ preservation, but it raises the issue (as cryonicists do) of when is someone dead? If it’s not information death, declarations are intrinsically premature, if the person can be put in an ambulance to the future.
The call out, explained.
NEPA and unions have become a very expensive luxury. But California HSR was a terrible idea even without these problems.
Thoughts on the coming age. A first of two essays.
He would have been 110 years old today. And if he was still with us, he would be appalled at the depths of economic ignorance not only being propounded, but implemented.