Space Weather Is an Infrastructure Risk Nobody Budgets For
A sufficiently large solar storm would damage power grids and satellites. The engineering fixes are known and mostly unfunded.
Tag: space
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Launch Is Cheap Now. What Changed Because of It
Reusable rockets cut the cost of orbit by an order of magnitude. The consequences are mostly not the ones that were predicted.
The Space Economy Is Mostly Satellites and Always Has Been
Behind the headlines about tourism and Mars, the money is in communications and Earth observation.
Asteroid Mining: The Numbers That Kill the Business Case
The resources are real and the arithmetic does not work. Here is what would have to change.
Data Centres in Orbit: The Idea and the Obstacles
Abundant solar power and no land use make orbital computing sound attractive. Cooling in vacuum is where the argument gets difficult.
More Than Twenty Lunar Landings Are Planned Before 2029
The foundations of a permanent lunar presence are being laid by robots, in a wave of missions that gets far less attention than crewed flights.
Voyager 2 Was Running Out of Power. Engineers Bought It More Time
Nearly half a century after launch, a team found a way to keep a spacecraft alive using hardware nobody expected to still be running.
The Roman Telescope Will Photograph the Sky a Hundred Times Faster
NASA's newest space observatory covers an area of sky in one shot that Hubble needs a hundred exposures to capture.