Thinking about SpaceX’s Petition to Launch an Additional 30,000 Satellites
On October 15, various news outlets, including SpaceNews, reported that SpaceX submitted filings for up to an … Read the rest
Virgin Orbit – Approaching Pole Position?
Over the past five years, the launch sector has (improbably?) become one of the hottest startup sectors, with more than 100 companies announcing plans to enter the market. To date, however, only one of these new entrants … Read the rest
SpaceX Starship Webcast
On September 28, 2019 (eleven years after the first successful launch of the Falcon 1), Elon Musk hosted a nearly two-hour webcast update on SpaceX’s Starship development plans. While the broad outlines of the company’s plan were already well known (prior speeches, Musk tweets), the webcast provided some important new details and (fantastical?) claims that, … Read the rest