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Category Archives: Business
The Malaysian Air Flight
How can an airplane just disappear?
Some people think that with satellites we have an “every sparrow that falls” omniscience, but we’re not there yet.
Elon’s Mars Plans
A detailed technical breakdown. Pretty ambitious.
Unless I missed it, there was one important aspect not discussed in trading kerosene versus methane. The latter would be much easier to manufacture on Phobos/Deimos or the Martian surface.
SpaceX Versus ULA
This isn’t a full transcript, but it’s a good selection of key points made during last week’s Senate Appropriations hearing.
New Pressure To Accelerate Commercial Crew?
Someone needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that “as soon as possible” could be within a year, if they accelerate the docking system, and they could fly someone in ten days, if someone decided it was important.
SpaceX Versus “Boeing”
The headline of this good National Journal article on yesterday’s Senate Appropriations hearing is very misleading. One would think from it that’s it’s about the commercial crew competition between Dragon and CST, when in fact it’s about the competition between SpaceX and ULA for milsat launches. I assume that the copy editor screwed up, not the author. Anyway, note the typical socialist argument against competition that Dick Shelby uses.
Space Tourism
Eileen Collins explains why it will be successful.
Making Russia Pay For Ukraine
…with seven energy policies.
They’d have the additional benefit of sparking economic growth.
The Pause
Causes and implications of it.
The biggest implication is that the models are worse than useless as a guide to policy on climate. And places like California are taking a wrecking ball to their economy for nothing.
Our Space Dependence On The Russians
I say it’s time to end it, over at PJMedia.