That looks like LEO, which begs the question, how does this thing handle drag?

What could possibly go wrong? 😳

If you fly in LEO you use a near polar sun synch orbit in which the solar array cuts through the atmosphere like a knife. Better is to fly in a very high orbit near Earth-Sun L1 where asteroid resources are energetically close to use as building materials.

To understand how far superior the Chinese space industry is to all elements of the U.S. industry (except SpaceX), consider that the Zhuque-3 has been in development for 26 months. The New Glenn has been in development for more than 260 months (it’s fair to say the New Glenn has

Pound for pound the most inventive company in the space sector.

Yep. The strange thing is that the heaviest use of AI today by power users is software development, but in ten years there will be no significant app development not significant OS development etc... it will all be AIs developing AI. There will not be a spreadsheet app. If you

Good news! Crime in U.S. cities is down massively in the first half of 2025. Can't imaging why (JK), but lots of Americans are alive who would not be otherwise. Thousands of others who would have been traumatized victims and enjoying life without that. • New York City:

Elon's new posts about things we can do in space with fully reusable superheavy vehicles are important. I have been wondering for years when he would realize that there are much more important things to do in space before building a city on Mars. - Massive AI (and other) data

The lot behind our building seems lonely without multiple modular Sutter TKO observatories in integration and test! No worries, our testbed will be back up in a matter of days. Just gotta rebuild it.

There is this really (I mean really) smart guy I know (just barely but I read about him all the time) who has like ridiculous agency who is gonna get like a trillion dollars if Tesla is worth several trillion. Hmmmm..... Not gonna sell my Telsa stock. Hey Elon Musk I love

There is no conservative majority in the SCOTUS. The reis, for the first time in decades, a constitutional majority and a liberal minority. That is why they will do the right thing constitutionally and reject Trump's tariffs, in spite of the fact that they are clearly good for

True fans of patent law know that this Blue Origin milestone has been 15 years in the making

While we are congratulating our friends at Blue Origin for their amazing landing today, also passing along this nice article that CNN posted about how TransAstra is transitioning from asteroid mining R&D to market-shaping reality.

Heartfelt congratulations to @jeffbezos and Blue Origin. You deserve a huge amount of credit for nailing the landing on the second attempt.

Blue Origin is starting to accelerate and vindicate aspects of their approach. Hope to see much more of this.

I think some aspects of TransAstra's secret plan for asteroid are starting to, ummm.. leak out.

A several year old orbital data processing concept. Yes, know all the challenges, but they will evolve to this over time. FYI

In case anyone is interested, here’s my presentation to the @UArizona Mining Law Summit 2025. Topic: Mining the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies, with an emphasis on legal and policy issues. youtu.be/TOXrzbh05DI?si…

So important to understand Bjorn Lomborg and his brilliant analysis.