This is a huge change. ISRO is finally loosening its reins on the space industry.
I had a phone conversation with a would-be Indian space entrepreneur a few years ago who was wondering how to get this to happen. I would have hoped it would have happened sooner under Modi, but better late than never. This should make them even more receptive to multilateral agreements like the Artemis Accords, or along the lines of my IAC paper.
I’ve been attending the virtual Space Settlement Summit for the past couple days, but I just noticed that Gabriel Swiney happened to put up a relevant Twitter thread on the topic of space governance.
Bob Zimmerman is doing a fundraiser for his site this week.
I suspect that the Supreme Court will uphold this ruling. The question is, how many votes are we talking about?
…from Thanos.
An interesting article on Nanoracks’ plans for the conversion of spent stages into space facilities.
…he should take the swamp monsters down with him.
Yes. And it wouldn’t preclude him from another run in 2024.
Are they a rejection of identity politics?
I hope so.
Covid didn’t cause this so much as accelerate it. These trends were inevitable. And when it comes to education, this is good news. Start funding students, and not “school systems.”