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SPS. On Quartz Space Business
"“One of the challenges we are facing right now is incrementalism,” Hajimiri says. “There’s a lot of incremental [work] that’s important and essential, [but] it should not come...
Spin. 3 from the desk of SSI President Gary C Hudson
Spin: "Evidence is growing about the many ways that traveling in the microgravity environment of space tampers with the human body, with...
SPS. The Public Brit View
Post images from BBC Science Focus (March 2023 but, except for the JBIS, tech mags take the slowest boat possible across the pond. We just...
SPS. United States Congress
"for the first time since the 1970s, the idea of space-based solar power has been addressed legislatively by the US Congress." ""..and if the United States doesn't do it,...
SPS. Wall Street Journal Beaming Energy From Space
Money makes the world go 'round. Money people read the Wall Street Journal. Keep it up. Read the Article here (Paywall, but...):...
SPS. Beaming in Space. The CalTech update
""Through the experiments we have run so far, we received confirmation that MAPLE can transmit power successfully to receivers in space,"...
SPS. A Bargaining Tool
SPS. "If we can demonstrate our technology ahead of the rest of the world, it will also be a bargaining tool for space development with...
Spin. Leonard David on the Reasons for G-Lab work
President Gary Hudson sends you this link: https://spaceref.com/space-stations/gravity-situation-g-factor-artificial/ "“Currently, threshold gravity levels that avoid the various...
SPS. Perovskite. “They Thrived.” Hmm.
“A lot of people doubted that these materials could ever be strong enough to deal with the harsh environment of space,” McMillon-Brown said. “Not only do they survive, but in...
New O’Neillian Fiction
"Suarez agrees with Bezos’ sentiment, but not because the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin came up with the idea. In the latest episode of the Fiction Science...