Earlier this week, Colin Doughan posted the first post in what should hopefully be a fun series of posts on the business case of servicing the Iridium satellites over on his excellent Space Business Blog. As he mentioned at the start of the post, I’ve been working with him on this for some time, but [...]
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Posted in Administrivia on Dec 16th, 2010
Someone at NASASpaceflight.com dug up the predictions thread for 2010 that I apparently started on New Year’s Eve a year ago… http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19960.0 Here were my predictions: What I think will likely happen in 2010: 1- ISS will be extended to 2020 and Shuttle only to 2011 (with one added flight) 2- Ares-I will be canceled, [...]
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Posted in Administrivia on Dec 13th, 2010
Just a last second reminder that I’m going to be on The Space Show this afternoon (2-3:30pm PST), talking with Dr. Livingston about my new company and what we’re up to (including info about our SBIR award). If there’s extra time, we may talk about propellant depots and other space business or space technology topics [...]
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Posted in Space Exploration on Dec 12th, 2010
A couple of weeks back, I got an invitation from Josh Hopkins (a friend of mine from Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Programs group) to attend a colloquium he was going to be presenting at up at SwRI’s Boulder office. It turns out the colloquium ended up right in the middle of SpaceX’s COTS 1 mission, so [...]
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