If we’re going to be servicing satellites (and we are), we have to accept the dual use of the technology. Space is a place.
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China’s plans to dominate space.
Category Archives: Space
Apollo 1
It’s been fifty-five years since the pad disaster. It was the day before my birthday.
Look Out Below
Or should I say, look out above? A Falcon 9 upper stage is going to crash into the Moon in a few weeks.
JWST
It’s arrived safely at ESL2.
No, NTSB
If the commercial spaceflight industry wants your “help,” it will ask for it.
Excitement At Starbase
This seems sort of spectacular.
“Don’t Look Up”
Boca Chica
Are SpaceX’s plans there on indefinite hold?
This is definitely going to delay first orbital flight test, and it may occur out of Florida instead.
JWST
Deployment complete.
I’m glad it worked, but I would not have done it that way. I’d have used those billions to develop technology for assembling large space structures. This is the first, and probably last origami telescope. Future instruments will be built in space.