As his long-time space adviser, I fully endorse him, and expect to be named space czar after his inevitable glorious victory.
Category Archives: Space
The Big Bad Starship
Who‘s afraid of it?
They continue to fail to understand how revolutionary this vehicle will prove to be. It will change everything about the way we do space activities.
Starship Flight Four
Quite the “Static” Test
Wow. This is apparently what was supposed to be a STATIC FIRE TEST today of a Tianlong-3 first stage by China’s Space Pioneer. That’s catastrophic, not static. Firm was targeting an orbital launch in the coming months. https://t.co/BY9MgJeE7A pic.twitter.com/L6ronwLW1N
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) June 30, 2024
I’m guessing this will delay their orbital test…
[Update a while later]
If this was the static test, the orbital one will be very exciting.
[Monday-afternoon update]
Brian Wang has more info.
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[Wednesday-morning update]
Jonathan O’Callaghan has the story, with a quote from Your’s Truly.
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Space Mining
…doesn’t need more international regulation from the UN.
Especially from the UN.
In Which I’m Quoted
Boeing’s Latest Starliner Woes
CNN is generally a terrible news source, at least on politics, but Jackie Wattles is an excellent space reporter.
[Update a few minutes later]
Not space related, but an example of how scurrilous (and hypocritical) CNN can be in general, despite their good reporters.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Is this vehicle cursed?
[Friday-morning update]
The latest, from Jim Meigs.
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[Saturday-afternoon update]
The return is now delayed indefinitely.
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Nifty Fifty
After the quickest achievement of fifty flights, an interview with Rocketlab’s Peter Beck.
Israel And Space
I need to write an essay on the topic by Monday. Comments are open for ideas for me to steal.