The Navy Research Lab has been working on it?
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Oreo Mining
This is pretty funny.
SLS/Orion
No, Mr. Tito, it’s isn’t a spaceship to anywhere, let alone everywhere, or even Mars.
The High Frontier
Space Is Really Really Empty
A scale map of the solar system, with the moon as a single pixel.
Certification And Rules-Based Regulations
Part of the reason why we can’t have nice things.
SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket
Will it revolutionize spaceflight? A report at Technology Review from Michael Belfiore.
Live From Space
Starts in forty minutes or so. This is sort of like the Apollo days, when the news networks would go live to the spacecraft. There’s a lot more to see at ISS.
Certification Versus Licensing Of Space Vehicles
A new journal paper on the subject. One of the authors is the head of FAA-AST. I haven’t read it yet.
Note that this is a different discussion than whether or not AST should be regulating passenger safety. It’s a discussion of how to regulate, not what to regulate.
Defending Earth From Asteroids
My former colleague from the Aerospace Corporation, Bill Ailor, gave a FISO presentation the other day. Clark Lindsey has the story.