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Category Archives: Space
Starship Upgrades
Despite the failure to land so far, it looks like SpaceX is making progress more rapidly than anticipated.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is writing the obituary for SLS. I hope he’s right.
Senator SLS
…is (finally) retiring. Here are four potential people to replace him. Brooks is from Huntsville. He and Ross Aderholt have been the biggest proponents of the Big Monster Rocket in the House.
Another Dumb Space Article
Sigh.
No, there was never a Trump plan for sending anyone to Mars by 2024, and the FAA didn’t cancel the SpaceX test.
SN9 Update
A good article about the landing failure at Teslerati.
The High Frontier
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).
Space Force Journal
The first issue is out.
Looks like some interesting stories by top-notch analysts.
Is Today The Day?
I’m assuming they have clearance from the FAA now.
[Update a while later]
Here’s the story on what happened with the FAA. I’d like to understand more detail on it. I’d be surprised if SpaceX really knowingly launched without authorization. I wonder if there was a miscommunication?
[Update a few minutes later]
Bob Zimmerman has more, with links.
[Post-flight update]
[Thursday-morning update]
You have to appreciate that kind of honesty in a CEO.
[Bumped]
[Afternoon update]
Per the comment that he was being sarcastic:
SLS
It’s official; they’re going to do another static fire, perhaps this month. This almost certainly moves the first flight out to next year. Not that it matters.
[Update at noon]
Meanwhile…
[Afternoon update]
More Money Down The Drain
I hadn’t realized that the Air Force had given NG over half a billion for The Stick. I hope that this is the last of the money that will be wasted on it.