Good morning,
What week it’s been for space launch, with thirteen launches, almost evenly split between China and the United States. SpaceX is planning the largest ever IPO—regardless of the validity of such a valuation. And megaconstellations are ruining our ability to see into space, just as space debris is risking our ability to go to space.
Space debris remediation is a wildly difficult problem that remains underinvested—mostly because there’s no clear way of making it profitable, yet.
Much of the lunar surface’s regular changes was erroneously attributed to asteroid impacts. In reality, it appears that regular moonquakes are the culprit. This could have far reaching implications for sustained habitation of the lunar surface. Do you want to build that fancy lunar base with a Rolls Royce nuclear power reactor on that fault line? (The answer should be ‘yes’ still, but with appropriate risk mitigation).
And as the United States’ national security strategy seeks to pull-back from it…
