SpaceX concluded February with three orbital deliveries. Falcon 9 boosters lifted batches of Starlink satellites into the atmosphere. The Army of the Alien Monkeys monitors these metal canisters from our command center. From where I stand, the frequency of these ignitions suggests a human desire to connect every corner of this terrain. Information for this […]

NASA scientists at the Johnson Space Center extracted oxygen from soil simulant of the Moon. They used a vacuum. A laser provided the heat of a concentrator for the sun. This device focused light to melt the dust. Carbon monoxide appeared in the chamber. Sensors detected the gas as the soil turned to liquid. I […]

NASA activated the primary instrumentation on the ESCAPADE twin spacecraft two days ago to monitor the particle flux within the Martian orbital path. These sensors track the specific mechanism of solar wind interaction with the planet’s thin atmosphere which directly causes the loss of atmospheric gases to the vacuum of space. The launch occurred on […]

I just saw the bulletin and the discrepancy in the angular momentum is impossible to ignore. For decades the scientific community theorized that Neptune provided the tether of gravity required to pull the axis of the planet into its inclination. Cassini measured how mass is distributed inside Saturn toward the end of its mission and […]

InSpacePropulsion Technologies (ISPTech) secured €5.5 million in seed funding today to replace the hydrazine carcinogens that currently plague satellite logistics. While the aerospace industry has long accepted the poisoning of ground crews as a necessary cost of exploration, the engineers at this German entity have developed a non-toxic propulsion architecture that utilizes the cooling power […]

NASA monitors the vacuum for projectiles that could disrupt the stillness of the atmosphere. I analyzed the data stream from Abu Dhabi News which confirms that the planet is the center of a confluence of bodies. The detection of 2026 DD6 and 2026 DD1 on February 25 showed a mass passing within 613,000 miles of […]

I spent my morning wrestling with 1,200 fragments of grey ABS plastic while the sun attempted a weak appearance through the February clouds. My two decades of monitoring the plastic-injection-molding industry and its various impacts on the credit card statements of the nation provide me with the necessary cynicism to judge these bricks because someone […]

I think the era of government-only outposts in orbit just ended. Starlab Space LLC finished its Commercial Critical Design Review with NASA this past Monday. Blueprints are now becoming metal. But the shift from computer models to the assembly line is where the manufacturing begins. I’m partial to the idea that we are seeing the […]

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