Eric Berger got an all-expenses-paid trip there, courtesy of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, to see what’s going on there.
Category Archives: Space
The BFR
…is under construction at the Port of LA.
Exo-Mars
Bob Zimmerman examines the planned landing site.
Enceladus
Breakthrough and NASA have signed a Space Act Agreement for support of a private mission. This is the most likely way for it to happen, and it will probably happen before a Europa mission (it probably would have even with Culberson, given the requirement to use SLS).
Space Conferences
I’ve been busy for the past couple days, and will continue to be, with first the Space Settlement Summit, and starting today (and concluding tomorrow) a meeting of the Moon Village Association. For those who want to participate, the latter will supposedly start to be live streamed at 8 AM PDT, but I don’t know the URL. I’ll update when I get there and find out what it is.
[Update after conference start]
Here is the livestream. Scott Pace is speaking.
The Recode Interview With Elon
The transcript has been released. Among other things, he doesn’t like electric scooters.
The Soyuz Failure
It seems to me that the failure of a single sensor shouldn’t cause a hard launch abort.
My Latest Space-Policy Piece
…has gone live on line. The issue has the theme of a space renaissance, also containing a very technical article by Bob Zubrin on Moon Direct, and a piece by Micah Meadowcroft on why space settlers may be doomed to disappointment.
Light Blogging
I am in the last throes of getting the house on the market. Tomorrow is my last day in Florida (I hope), at least in terms of getting this house sold (I will come back for launches, but if I never go to south Florida again, I will have no regrets). Tomorrow night we fly to Denver, and back to LA on Tuesday. Then after a couple days of catching up at home I’m in Santa Monica for the Space Settlement Summit on Friday and Saturday, then on a plane to DC all week for COMSTAC and satellite servicing conference. So, probably still not a lot of blogging.
Things may be more lively after I get back from DC for a couple weeks, but then I’m off to Europe for a couple weeks. Anyway, life is not boring.
{Update late evening]
What the hell, let’s make this an open thread. Just be good.
Wilbur Ross
Looks like he may be on the way out. That’s too bad, from a space perspective; he was extremely enthusiastic about space.