Artemis II will fly farther than Apollo ever did, and the cabin details matter
There is no quick way home What does it take to launch people beyond Earth orbit the first time since…
Aerospace & Spaceflight
Space-based AI data centers would demand an industrial launch cadence, not just bigger chips
A million satellites is a software problem until it becomes an arithmetic problem and then manufacturing problem and logistics problem…
Too many satellites now leave operators only days to prevent a chain collision
How congested must the low-Earth orbit become, before “traffic” is a real engineering issue? The connectivity of the world is…
Investors may price “AI in orbit,” but Starlink’s day job carries the real constraints
Does a company make its sale of the idea of orbital data centres without the satellites already there in the…
How SR-71 Crews “Beat the Sun” and what it cost to fly that fast
How come that an airplane can get to Friday night in California when it was flying on Saturday morning in…
Musk moved the destination from Mars to the moon hardware readiness will decide it
What will we have different when we stop Mars and switch to the moon: the engineering, the schedule discipline, or…
Rocket Lab’s Neutron tank test failure puts composite hardware back in the spotlight
“How much schedule risk can a new medium-lift rocket absorb before the factory rhythm, not the launch pad, becomes the…
Artemis II Quarantine Begins as Teams Rehearse Fueling and Ocean Recovery
A lot of practice led up to this week’s event, and seeing everything come together at sea gives me great…
NASA Ends MAVEN Mission After Mars Orbiter Falls Silent
Generally, no spacecraft get tours going into the sunset! A single signal and it goes silent once again. By virtue…