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Category Archives: Economics
Space Settlement
I’ve been attending the virtual Space Settlement Summit for the past couple days, but I just noticed that Gabriel Swiney happened to put up a relevant Twitter thread on the topic of space governance.
Repurposing Rocket Stages
An interesting article on Nanoracks’ plans for the conversion of spent stages into space facilities.
The Office Apocalypse
Covid didn’t cause this so much as accelerate it. These trends were inevitable. And when it comes to education, this is good news. Start funding students, and not “school systems.”
Yes, He Does
Space
Yes, let’s make it a free-market frontier.
Space Solar Power
The Aerospace Corporation is calling for international collaboration to develop the tech for it. Despite Elon’s opposition to it, ironically, Starship may be one of the enablers for it. I think that space-to-space use is more likely than terrestrial applications, though, at least initially.
Starlink
…is starting beta testing. It’s a little pricey, at least initially, but it could be a huge boon for the boondocks.
Glenn Reynold’s New Space Book
Laura Montgomery reviews it. He gave me a draft when he was writing it, on which I provided some comments.
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
This looks promising.