It’s Day 2 of the workshop. I’m giving a talk this morning on the need for resilient LEO infrastructure. I may post the briefing later. It’s substantially the same one I gave to NASA at HQ in December.
Category Archives: Space
Lunar Operations
Interesting session at the Improving Space Ops Workshop in Pasadena. Heard a talk on long-lived stable lunar orbits with max eclipse time of four hours. Now listening to a proposed cubesat mission to map hydrogen at the lunar poles.
Improving Space Operations
There’s a workshop at JPL today and tomorrow (I’m doing a presentation there tomorrow morning), so blogging will probably be light or non-existent.
[Update a few minutes before I leave]
The Humans2Mars conference starts today in DC. There is so much stuff going on in space that it’s hard to cover it all in person, even if I had the travel resources. Follow @jeff_foust and Pat Host (@Pat_DefDaily). It’s also live streaming.
[Update before I’m out the door to Pasadena]
Humans2Mars has issued its first annual report. That’s the first I’d heard that Mike Raftery had left Boeing.
Misdirection On Mars
Bob Zubrin says we don’t need no stinkin’ moon. Or SLS, either.
I don’t agree with his proposal, but it’s a lot better than anything that NASA has put forward.
The Progress Problem
The latest, from Anatoly Zak.
If they don’t know why the explosion occurred, they won’t be able to fly until they figure it out. Also, if I were NASA, I’d still be nervous about the May 26th Soyuz flight.
Charles Pooley Of Microlaunchers
He was supposed to give a presentation at Space Access. He didn’t show up.
Over at Arocket, Ed LeBouthillier (his collaborator on his book
I just got a call from the Las Vegas coroner’s office.
Apparently Charles has passed on and is no longer with us.
May the rocket gods look kindly on his soul. May he join his family, friends and ancestors in the family hall with honor.
Sorry to hear that. I didn’t know him well, but I’d talked to him a few times. RIP.
Merlin 1-D
#ExplorationDelendaEst No, it’s not an engine designed for “human space exploration.” It’s an engine designed for human spaceflight. I had a mini-rant about this at Space Access Saturday. #
Our Future In Space
Lee Billings reviews what looks to be interesting new book
Back In LA
It was great to see everyone at Space Access after the hiatus last year. It was also nice to see quite a few enthusiastic young people. More thoughts anon, but I’m beat from the drive, and insufficient sleep.
Amending The Space Act
Dana Rohrabacher has introduced his proposed legislation to amend the Space Act, in order to redirect NASA toward space settlement and development.