Hey, it’s more like a big Vulcan with little legs.
Hey, it’s more like a big Vulcan with little legs.
Yeah, Axiom is working on a private space station that would bud off the ISS when it deorbits. Although they have some money problems right now.
For asteroid mining, look up AstroForge. They’re working on mining platinum group metals from near Earth m-type asteroids. They launched a forge demo sat and soon will launch an asteroid RPO demo sat.
We’re in a new space race.
There are too many rocket companies to list. This commercialization drives down launch costs and increases capacity, which benefits private companies and public research institutions.
There was just a record number of people in orbit (19) that’ll get broken again in the coming years. The ISS will get new modules. Tiangong has been expanding. The Lunar Gateway station is under construction. Several private space stations are under construction. And multiple companies and countries are working on new crewed vehicles.
Starlink has customers in 99 countries as of March. It’s a global service.
Yup, and they have to be specifically tailored, and, even then, keeping them tight-fitting at joints is a challenge. There are some concepts with pressurized traditional gloves to work around some of that.
Hopefully some day we get mechanical counterpressure suits.
Companies like this make me wish I had the gall to sell snake oil to venture capitalists.
What a classic recipe. It’s a YC company with a McKinsey CEO.
Let’s go with “as routine as a cruise”, then. We just need a good space elevator, orbital ring, skyhook…
I meant for the 3 weeks between when Starliner leaves and the Crew 9 Dragon gets there.
Their backup plan is to have the extra 2 astronauts lie on the floor of the Crew Dragon and reenter without suits. Yep. That’s still safer than Starliner.
Agreed. Hopefully they can keep Gaganyaan moving.
The internet would absolutely lose it if SpaceX started selling dongles.
They effectively removed themselves from the commercial market by stealing a batch of Oneweb satellites.
I brought up Northrop because I’m guessing they bid a Cygnus derived deorbit vehicle.
How is this a handout? They bid for a contract and won it vs competitors.
I’m hoping we get a source selection statement soon where they spell out why companies like Northrop and Blue didn’t win.
I think my next campaign needs a pawn shop that’ll consider buying anything but will seriously low-ball it if they can’t move it easily. And maybe need to talk to an expert they know.
Ok but honorary planet vs king of the dwarf planets?
Eh. Mine freaks out and fails half the time I try to go full screen. And the frame rate seems like it gets awful randomly.
I just want canyons covered with a fish tank growing algae and shielding cool Adobe cities