Are they today’s robber barons?
As Glenn notes, unlike the Carnegies, Rockefellers and J. P. Morgans, these robber barons haven’t given us much except toxic social media. The exception being, of course, Elon Musk.
Category Archives: Space
Try, Try Again
China’s first attempt to put a methane-fueled rocket into orbit has failed.
The Orbital Debris Problem
An interview with Moriba Jah.
The Solar Power Satellite Game
A weird and potentially wonderful new website.
[Monday-morning update]
Per a comment from Robert Smith, if you want to keep the site up, click on the choice buttons.
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My Thoughts On Artemis
They haven’t changed with the success of this mission. It would have been a shock if, after all the money they’ve spent, and schedule delays, it hadn’t been successful.
[Monday-morning update]
Here is Eric Berger’s take, FWIW.
[Update a while later]
Scanning through the (as usual, largely ridiculous) comments over there, it strikes me that the real race between SpaceX and SLS was not whether SS/SH would fly before SLS, but whether SpaceX will send people around the moon before Artemis II. I think it’s quite likely.
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[Afternoon update]
Looking for the “S” word in Artemis.
The Fusion Constant
Maybe, after all these decades, the time until fusion is finally being reduced. I wonder, if there’s a catch, what it is?
[Update]
People are saying it’s paywalled, but I saw it from Twitter, even thought I don’t subscribe.
Huh.
Loss Of A Pioneer
New Speed Record
100 Gbps from earth to space. At some point, the DSN needs to be converted to lasers.
Lunar Landing Pads
An interesting new study on ISRU.
I do expect that the cost of getting to the moon will be dropping dramatically in the next decade, though.
Objections To Mars Colonization
Peter Hague knocks them down.