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My worlds collide: I built a Mac app using near real-time imagery from GOES-East, GOES-West, and Himawari-8.
It’s called Downlink and you can get it today (free!) on the Mac App Store.
Letting the $8 billion number circulate for a few days makes asking for $4 billion seem more sane than it would have otherwise.
With complete integrated landers being back in the realm of possibility, anything could happen. From SpaceX’s Starship, to a full Blue Moon lander.
Titan is the second coolest planet in the system. Go Team Dragonfly.
Kate Howells of the Planetary Society joins Jake and I to talk all things Canadian space policy.
I joined Andrew Heaton on his show, Something’s Off with Andrew Heaton, to talk about all things Space Force—where things stand, where they’re headed, what needs to be solved, and of course, uniforms.
I understand why Vector and Astra are in, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why Virgin Orbit is interested.
There’s a lot of interesting flexibility here with Rocket Lab’s new kick stage-derived satellite bus.
A solid $30 million under their previous NASA science mission contracts, but DART is only 500 kilograms, so will likely be sharing its ride.