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THE RECENT FACEBOOK KERFUFFLE
[from the SSI Facebook page] Apparently a minor ruckus was caused by a forward of a recent SpaceNews story. Comments here and there ran from analytical to … fun internetty 🙂. One...
Regulating SPS. Does that say something?
Read it at SpaceNews.com: https://spacenews.com/connecting-the-dots-regulating-space-power-plants/ To see this story's SSI Facebook comments: Click Here
Elon says he hates it but…
Watch it on Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-07-12/elon-musk-hates-this-idea-ali-hajimiri-is-betting-on-it-video To see this story's SSI Facebook comments:...
China’s Xidian University has completed what it calls the world’s first full-link and full-system ground test system for space-based solar power
Read the original: https://spacenews.com/chinese-university-completes-space-based-solar-power-ground-test-facility To see this story's SSI Facebook comments: Click Here
The SPS Investment to CalTech
https://www.spacesolar.caltech.edu/
Joe Haldeman Essay: Peace From On High
Giant Space Settlements? Why? Science Fiction Grandmaster Joe Haldeman, creator of so many classics including The Hemingway Hoax, Camouflage, All My Sins Remembered and, of...
Unintended Consequences and Avoidable Ones
Share this image. Share this need. This is important. Blind Faith has no place in mission-critical engineering and Human lives are mission-critical to the Humanization of...
Why is the org into the “most far flung ideas” the one org pushing for the most important near-term work?
Someone is finally at least talking about starting some kind of Reduced Gravity test hardware! SpaceX? No. Blue Origin? Nope. Boeing+Lockheed=ULA? Nah. ESA? NASA? No and for the...
Yellow, Grey and Brown
Back during the holiday break, about when a young researcher was looking for overview pointers on closed loops, I came across an Irish government proposal on human waste...
Nothing new under the sun, alas
Comments on the previous post brought this little item to mind, Gerard K. O'Neill on a why of the Space Studies Institute. The age old dilemma, working on doing real things vs...