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Category Archives: Space Future
Peter Zeihan on Joe Rogan; Brian Wang Responds
The business world’s turn away from China is gathering momentum. Even Apple is now preparing to shift its manufacturing away from China, bringing with it the firm’s enormous productive and engineering power. The ‘China Dream’ is rapidly fading as the … Continue reading
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Keeping Most of Your Assets Off Planet
16 Psyche—a 140-mile-wide/226-kilometer-wide asteroid—could contain a core of iron, nickel and gold worth $10,000 quadrillion. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft was set to launch in August 2022 and arrive at the asteroid in 2026. However, software issues and mission development problems meant the … Continue reading
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Trillion Dollar Space Economy Tempts Entrepreneurs
Elon Musk’s Starlink internet satellite system is expected to earn SpaceX roughly $5 billion per year by 2030. By comparison, the Internet of Things economy is expected to hit about $10 trillion/yr by 2030 and the Metaverse is expected to … Continue reading
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Cheap Access to Space Brings a World that Dictators Will Hate
Look at the cost curve of SpaceX vehicles (look right): For 50 years the cost of space launch stayed above $6,000 per kg. Then along came Elon Musk and SpaceX. Within the next few years, thanks to the SpaceX Starship … Continue reading
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What if China Controls Outer Space?
It is a race to control the future of humanity. Control of outer space means control of the $trillions upon $trillions worth of resources in the solar system. It means controlling orbiting communications and observation satellites. It means controlling all … Continue reading
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When a Trillion People Live, Work, and Play in Outer Space
Colonizers Have Always Been the Salvation of Humanity From the very first, it is the human instinct to migrate and colonize new territory that maximizes the odds for human survival. Always looking for better hunting grounds, better fishing, better trade … Continue reading
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Test Launch of SpaceX Starship SN10 a Thing of Beauty
Update: After a successful launch, test flight, and landing, the successful rocket exploded on the pad. I guess that one will not be re-used 😉 . Despite the grand finale, the overall message of the test flight was that the … Continue reading
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Wanna Get Away?
Black Hole Discovered in “Neighborhood” of Solar System In a lockdown world dominated by fear of a cold virus — and only getting worse — thoughtful Earthlings cannot help but wonder whether things might be better on a more rational … Continue reading
Nuclear Micro-reactors In Case of Apocalypse
In Case of Zombie Apocalypse You’ll Want One of These Ordinary nuclear power plants require massive containment structures, take years to build, and typically produce about 1 GW of power per reactor. Micro-reactors are relatively small, and produce between 1 … Continue reading
SpaceX Almost Ready for Manned Spaceflights
The Moon is Getting Closer SpaceX is preparing to launch humans into space, following its successful Dragon capsule test yesterday. The first piloted flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut taxi is likely just a few months away, now that a … Continue reading
Do 2020 Days Seem to be Getting Longer?
The Days are Getting Longer! By approximately 14 nanoseconds . . . A day on Earth is slightly longer this year than last year. It might be hard to notice in just a single year, but the time it takes … Continue reading
Space Warfare: A Kill Chain Approach
Space is Military High Ground The US Air Force has been exploring multiple uses of outer space for decades. The latest flight of the secretive USAF X37B space plane came to an end recently after a record 780 days in … Continue reading
SpaceX: Mission to Mars, Earth, Luna — and Beyond
Elon Musk has one good company — SpaceX. The company has proven that it can provide reliable and economical space launch for most modern uses of space, from satellite launches to space station resupply. But Musk is introducing new goals … Continue reading
More Than All the Money In the World
The Danger is Real Asteroids represent both threat and promise. A large enough asteroid could destroy human civilisation. But it could also represent unimaginable wealth in base metals, diamonds, platinum, and gold. Much rests upon whether humans can prepare themselves … Continue reading
3D Printed Space Rockets ++
Engineers are getting better at printing complex metal objects using 3D printing. Building rocket engines for space launch has to be one of the more complex applications of the technology. SpaceX launched its first 3D-printed part, the body of a … Continue reading
The Thing That Is Different About Space Enthusiasm This Time
Ever since US President Kennedy pledged in the early 1960s that the US would land a man on the moon within the decade, the US has been caught up in episodic bouts of space enthusiasm. Engineers and other technical people … Continue reading
Space Access 2019 via Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
Why Does the US Have So Many of These Conferences? Preliminary Conference Schedule And What Good Do They Do? Free Speech and Free Association form the Groundwork for a Civil Society These freedoms are guaranteed by the 1st amendment to … Continue reading
What if Elon Musk Could Boost the Pentagon into Orbit?
The Pentagon: It Even Looks Like a Space Colony Weighing many millions of tonnes, The Pentagon — US military headquarters — is far too massive for any of SpaceX’s current generations of rockets to boost into orbit. Falcon 9 can … Continue reading
The Universe is Infinite: Economic Growth is Forever*
Since Dawn of History: Humans Discover Opportunity and Growth Human progress and economic growth followed a natural — but bumpy and uneven — track. Agriculture led to surplus wealth, cities, specialisation of labour, and trade. Despite thousands of years of … Continue reading
Americans Plan to Populate Space with Billions of People
First you must develop reliable and affordable ways to reach outer space. Then you must find ways to make activity in space profitable. Then you must put skilled and resourceful human beings in space to provide vision and oversight for … Continue reading
Rich Romp to the Stars: Fueling the $Trillion Space Economy
Trillions, High and Low The transition from a $hundreds of billions space economy to a $trillions space economy may be quicker than anyone thought. Cheap access to space opens all kinds of doors which were expected to stay closed for … Continue reading
Dawn of a New Space Age
Elon Musk is planning to build a city of one million humans on Mars over the next few decades. Jeff Bezos wants to put between one million and one trillion humans into space to live and work. Robert Zubrin has … Continue reading
A Future in Space
World’s Richest Man Dreams of Vast Numbers Living in Space Jeff Bezos — worth about $130 billion — dreams of a future where a trillion people live in outer space. The more room that is made for bright humans to … Continue reading
Russia Backs Away from International Space Launch Market
Russia Once Called SpaceX “A Nice Trick” But now Russia is running up the white flag and surrendering to SpaceX — and you don’t surrender to “a nice trick.” You surrender to a force that has defeated you. As recently … Continue reading
Bringing Outer Space Within Man’s Grasp
… a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? __ Robert Browning … Falcon Heavy flights cost $90 million per launch, which is a fraction of the $300 million to $500 million per launch charged by … Continue reading
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