Navy ranks for space has long been a topic at SF conventions. Now it’s becoming real.
Category Archives: Space
Living A Million Years
I think that even I would get pretty bored after only a thousand or so.
A New SpaceX Milestone
95th successful flight, 58th successful landing, catching both fairing halves, and for the first time, a sixth reuse of a booster.
Escape From The Wuhan Darkness
Confronting our potentially stark choices.
I don’t know if human expansion off planet is economically feasible, but I sure hope so.
A Mission To Venus
A private one. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I hope they have a good camera to see if it’s beautiful clouds, or just gray.
Bernard Kutter
I got an email from Jon Goff about this yesterday, but didn’t want to post until there was a public announcement.
This is a huge loss to the industry. He had a great deal of vision, that was squandered by the child abuse of ULA’s parent companies. Not sure he’s replaceable. My deepest condolences to all his friends and family.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, that was fast. This post is already number two on a DuckDuckGo search for “Bernard Kutter.” Funny thing is that Google has nothing on the death.
[Update a while later]
A tribute from the National Space Society.
Ceres
It’s geologically active, and may have an underground ocean.
Ceres is underrated. It should be considered a planet.
Rogozin’s New Trampoline
Apparently he thinks he’s competing with Falcon 9/Dragon, because there is no mention of Starship.
The Space Industry
Morgan Stanley thinks that investors should be more interested in it than they are.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, didn’t realize that article was two years old.
Space Solar Power
Here’s an overview of the state of the art of needed technologies to beam power to earth, from almost three decades ago, when I was working at Rockwell. I ran across it in trying to reduce the entropy of my office. It’s funny how little has changed.
Sorry about the rotation; that’s how it scanned into the PDF. Just rotate it with your browser.