Recent content by SpockeX

Ya, that's what they said about electric cars.

It so happens that today's (11 Mar 21) Starlink launch has passengers: Blacksky Global has two packages and SpaceX, who owns the launch vehicle, has 57. When one talks about putting one's money where one's mouth is then that's it right there! And about having skin in the game... Jees, how much...

Under the proviso that I may plead temporary insanity later; how do the outworlders do it? I mean craft that defy gravity and generate their own angular momentum.

Well thought out! The answer apparently isn't chemical rockets but boy, SpaceX makes it look easy. It is encouraging though that so much progress has been made in just these last few years in particle physics and mathematics. I don't pretend to understand it but the trend is positive and my...

Boeing has proven that if you tell people for long enough how difficult and expensive spaceflight is then they will eventually believe you. Conversely, or so it appears, when that belief permeates the organization itself (Boeing, in this case) then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy motivated...