Does NASA still have safety problems?
Yes, but as I wrote in my book, many of them are in fact a result of risk aversion.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Starship
Can it really launch three times a day?
We’re going to have to completely rethink “ranges.”
Live Long And Prosper
…if they will let you.
What Future For The SLS?
A good op-ed from Donald Robertson. He’s saying things that have been obvious for years, but that too many people pretend aren’t the case.
Disturbing
[Update a couple minutes later]
A New Form Of Ice
As noted, we continue to not know what we don’t know about H2O. I wonder at what temperatures it maintains the properties, and if it will have any practical applications.
Virgin Orbit
…might be on its last legs.
#GoogleLeaks Tells #TwitterFiles To Hold Its Beer
There need to be congressional investigations into this. These people are at war with half country, and they have far too much power.
I don’t know if it’s related, but recently Google has started randomly blocking my emails to Gmail users as spam. It’s very annoying.
[Update a few minutes later]
ChatGPT Plus has Google in its sites.
Good.
[Update a few more minutes later]
This seems to be the problem with my email. It did start in November, I think.
NASA’s Safety Culture
Twenty years after Columbia, is it fixed?
LEO Satellites
How low can they go?
The good thing about those altitudes is that unless there is active maintenance, their orbits won’t be long lived.