It’s reached its highest point yet.
We should be sending dozens of these things. If Starship happens, it will be quite affordable.
Category Archives: Space Science
Satellite Internet And Astronomy
A good overview of the problem, from Marina Koren.
A Water-Eating Virus
…from Maaaaars.
A truly dumb article, disappointing from Quillette.
Mike Gold
Has a new job at NASA, to ensure the ability to utilize space resources. I talked to him about this in DC last month, and sent him a copy of my IAC paper.
Central Butte
Bob Zimmerman continues to follow Curiosity’s progress on Mars.
Orion
Has no ability to bring back moon rocks?
Hey, no machine is perfect.
“Gun-Free” Zones
People in charge of them should be made personally liable.
Makes sense to me. If you’re going to deprive someone of their right to self defense, it should be your responsibility to make it actually safe, not just put up a sign.
Asteroid Hunting
Casey Dreier has an interesting history of how NASA finally got a decent budget to fulfill its planetary-defense mandate.
Tongue-Shaped Glaciers
…on Maaaaars.
The NASA IG
…has told Congress to butt out.
It will be interesting to see how they respond. Culberson isn’t there any more. I’m not sure that Shelby will care, as long as the money continues to flow to Huntsville.
[Update early afternoon]
Here’s the story from Space News.