We may soon be able to predict them. That would be nice.
Category Archives: Space
Static Fire Success
Starship could take its maiden flight as soon as Sunday.
“Off-World Vehicles Not Made On This Earth”
Well, things are getting interesting.
[Update a few minutes later]
As noted in comments, the grays broke the link. I’ve fixed it now.
[Update a while later]
How worried should we be that they’re buzzing our military assets?
As noted, the problem is not what we know about it, but what we don’t know.
[Late-afternoon update]
Today’s (other) fake news in space.
A New Era For Space
I haven’t had time to read it yet, but the White House has released a new document from the National Space Council.
New Space Facilities
The Pentagon wants to buy some.
These can be done pretty quickly and cheaply, both because the cost of access has dropped, and because the customer actually wants them, not a jobs program. ISS has warped our notions of what space stations have to cost and how long they should take to build as much as Apollo has about how much going to the moon has to cost.
UAE In Space
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
They’ve been courting a lot of American companies with money, but as with Luxembourg, there are strings attached. The investment requires that the companies locate there. Pretty sure I’d rather live in Luxembourg than the Emirates, though.
New Apollo Footage
OK, not new footage, but a new version of it, enhanced by AI.
BTW, I’ll be on The Space Show at 1900 PDT tonight, to talk about the 51st anniversary of Apollo 11, and Evoloterra.
Falcon 8
Bob Zubrin has a proposal for a lunar flyby within a year. It’s a political non-starter, of course, because it doesn’t use SLS or Orion.
Murder In Space
There are large lacunae in the Outer Space Treaty, and as the article points out, it would be absurd to send someone to Mars to arrest someone per Article VI.
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Sorry, link is fixed.
Defunding The Universities
This looks promising. The American taxpayer has been subsidizing this crap for too long.