#mars

Two launches from Baikonur on the same date, one year apart. One aimed a spacecraft at Mars for the first time. The other showed a satellite could change its own orbit. Toward a Silent Flyby Stardate 81.8894

Building 20 Starships a week with rapid reuse scales past 10,000 launches a year. That's ~27 to 32 flights a day, lifting 1.5M to 2.0M tonnes to orbit. The real puzzle is where all that payload would come

Building 20 Starships a week with rapid reuse scales past 10,000 launches a year. Here is my best-guess breakdown of where all those flights go. The full article with the numbers is on my PeakD blog

Welcome back, and a warm welcome to everyone once again. I hope you are all doing very well. Today, I want to talk about something purely born from my own deep curiosity. Sitting quietly in the serene

I've been thinking about... Mars... would I really go if the seat was offered? It seems like it would be a great adventure, yet it's going to be really hard to start with. Even with Optimus androids doing