Frank Morring and Lara Seligman have a long piece describing the coming exciting upheaval in the space industry.
Category Archives: Space
3-D Printing
…with lunar and Mars regolith simulants.
If Congress and NASA were serious about opening space to humanity, this is the sort of thing that NASA would be spending more money on, instead of a monster rocket.
[Update a while later]
Related, I think: Questions that the Trump transition team asked NASA.
Failure Is An Option
Robogames
I’d like to attend this event. Maybe we’ll be through bathroom-renovation hell by then.
SpaceX Progress
Falcon Heavy is getting ready for its hot-fire test in Texas, and LC-40 is getting back in business after the boo boo last fall.
Mimicking An Early Impact In Earth’s Atmosphere
…results in the creation of all four DNA bases. This seems much more significant than Miller-Urey.
The Space Symposium
If, like me, you couldn’t make it to Colorado Springs last week, Calla Cofield has highlights.
[Noon update]
Valerie Insinna has the story on Tory’s choice in engines. Aerojet Rocketdyne has to have fingers crossed in the hope that BE-4 testing doesn’t go well.
Recovering Falcon Second Stages
Dick Eagleson has some interesting speculation.
Meanwhile, is the small-sat launch industry going to be Amazoned?
The Storms Of Jove
Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts on the gas giant.
Space Corps
Coyote is really pushing this concept. Now he’s got an op-ed at Aviation Week.