Keith’s note: The V 3.0 edition of the SpaceX Starship made its maiden flight tonight. The first stage with its sexy new Raptor 3 engines and total vehicle redesign did […]
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Starship Flight 11
Keith’s note: SpaceX Launched the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first stage came back exactly as planned. Ship made it to orbit and worked smoothly. Payload doors opened […]
Posted inCommercialization, Education, News
Another Opportunity For NASA To Be Globally Relevant
Keith’s note: According to a Starlink tweet “Starlink is ideal for rural locations. Later this year @JohnDeere will begin equipping new and existing machines across the United States and Brazil […]
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Elon Is Really Thinking Interplanetary
This is circulating from the @SpaceXStarlink TOS. Yes, people will be arguing about the Outer Space Treaty thing but it is interesting to see a company thinking ahead to providing […]
Posted inAstronomy
Should We Embrace – Or Sue – The Moving Lights In The Night Sky?
Toward a greater good: TMT & Starlink, Pamela Gay, Medium “We have a choice to either deny people the internet to make it easier for people to do ground-based astronomy, […]
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Dealing With All Of The Lights In The Sky
via GIPHY Keith’s note: There was a session and a media briefing today at the AAS meeting about large satellite constellations and their impact on astronomy. The SpaceX Starlink constellation […]
Posted inAstronomy
What To Do About Those Lights In The Sky
Elon Musk’s satellites threaten to disrupt the night sky for all of us, opinion, Washington Post “if we let Silicon Valley disrupt the night sky, we will never get it […]