Will it enter commercial service next year?
Doug Messier is skeptical. So am I, for the same reasons.
Category Archives: Space
Let NASA Do Great Things Again
Commentary from Rick Boozer, on the venal idiocy of Congressional priorities for the space agency.
Launch Indemnification
Jim Muncy: Extend it indefinitely.
Also, the moratorium on regulating space-participant safety.
[Update a while later]
Not sure how the link got broken, but it’s fixed now I think.
The Moon Treaty
No, we don’t have to accept it to mine the moon.
The author ignores the other lunar-related entrepreneurial activities, focusing exclusively on the Google Lunar Prize. The people closest to getting to the moon in any serious way are private actors, not any government, because it’s only going to happen with a dramatic reduction in cost of access. Certainly China’s not doing anything significant.
Venerian Gas-Phase Processes
Jon Goff has another post up on utilizing the upper atmosphere of Venus.
Book Sales
The book
The Dinosaurs Of The Launch Industry
Their world was just hit by an asteroid, whether they realize it or not.
SpaceX’s Silicon Valley Culture
Can it continue to work?
Australia’s Future In Space
Note the implicit but not necessarily valid assumption — that in order to do space activities, you have to launch from your own soil. For instance, I’d bet that Kodiak would be happy to lease some real estate to them for high-inclination launches.
Book Question
Has anyone actually ordered and received a copy yet?
[Friday-morning update]
Well, as you can see in comments, we have disparate results. One person has received it, one is going to next week, and one got a message that it’s a month away. So huh.