Rocket Lab just GAO-protested NASA’s Mars telecom award to Blue Origin. Not a minor issue. NASA gave Blue ~$700M firm-fixed-price to design, build, launch, and operate what is basically one high-performance

Wow. YouTuber TECH MAP just did a video with a long section discussing Project DAMS, my Detachable and Modular Starship concept - a key reason I got started on X. Good use of our video and animation made

Both Stoke Nova B2 and Starship are fully reusable, so how does price per kilo to orbit compare? Falcon made ~$4,000-4,500 per kilo to LEO feel normal. Nova Block 2 and Starship are both chasing the same

My take on the new Stoke Space Nova Block 2. It is really a three stage rocket now. Stage 1 and stage 2 come home. The last stage does not. Pathfinder still has that neat reusable fairing sitting on a

The Isaacman Effect - Week 34 Space Academy commission convenes its first meeting, Isaacman rallies Iowa students for Moon Base ambitions, and urgency defines the second space race. Space Academy commission

When you look up, you’re not seeing the universe now. You’re seeing a stack of different pasts. Light is fast - about 300,000 km a second - but space is bigger. So every bright point in the sky arrives

KiwiThinker's log, Coordinated Stardate 3439.0622. This clock has a proper name now. It was just Stardate. It had a problem. People hear it and think TNG. Five digits, a season code, a decimal that means

Look at all those Starships and Boosters. SpaceX never stops. Here’s the list as of early September. Flight-ready and waiting Booster 21 — 33-engine static fire done, Mega Bay 1 Ship 41 — 6-engine static

Charting the Moon's Gravity

Starlab Space Station and Stationships

the not to distant future...

LADEE Begins Its Lunar Journey

Viking 2 Settles on Utopia

India's Solar Vanguard

retire to low-G orbital stations for heath reasons

Number of people currently in space

James Webb telescope

Starbase, Louisiana

Crossing into the Unknown

The Isaacman Effect