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Profiles of the Future — Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
Prophesy from the year after the first human spaceflight: “In the long history of Man, ours is the first age with no new frontiers on land or sea, and many of our troubles stem from this fact.” (p.94) “The road to the stars has been discovered none too soon. Civilization cannot exist without new frontiers;… Read More
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Signing Xona’s first in-house GPS Satellite build (called Pulsar)
Xona is building a constellation of GPS sats in LEO to 100x the power and resiliency of existing GPS systems, even enabling it to work indoors. Xona has built their next gen Pulsar satellites in house, and I signed the first one (which will launch with SpaceX in October). A constellation of 258 of these… Read More
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the first GPS payload + antenna from Xona
A fantastic new addition to the space museum at work. You can see a standard L-band antenna array in the outer ring of 12 squares and the next-gen C-band array in the inner circle of 5. Xona is building a constellation of GPS sats in LEO to 100x the power and resiliency of existing GPS… Read More
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XONA Pulsar Wingspan
At HQ today. Xona has built their next gen Pulsar satellites in house. The wall art shows a 1:1 scale of Pulsar with the solar panel wings unfolded. A constellation of 258 of these satellites costs less than one legacy GPS sat today, and they are 100x as powerful.
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SpaceX Water
A Reusable Metal Fuel Tank… for Humans Bastrop TX is the site of the enormous alien dreadnought mass manufacturing Starlink phased array antennas and terminals. We just had a board meeting there
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Just drove something Boring ⚫️
The game controller interface makes it easy for beginners. The Mission Control room feels like SpaceX ("That’s all I know" said Steve Davis, CEO of The Boring Co.) This was during a live continuous dig in Bastrop, TX. Last video shows the mud leaving the tunnel. Videos here. The semi-autonomous shuttle runs under the TBM… Read More
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☢️ g͟o͟i͟n͟g͟ ͟n͟u͟c͟l͟e͟a͟r͟
but staying subcritical, with the founders today in TX. Nuclear pile at scale in the center (holds the uranium pellets and circulating molten lead). We are holding test shells from the proton beam line. NRC Part 70. subcritical.com
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Steve Jobs’ Science Fair Project, at age 13
I just discovered this, at a “garage sale” from the original Apple garage. The SCR (Silicon Controlled Rectifier) is a semiconducting latch that behaves electrically like one NPN transistor + one PNP transistor hooked together in a feedback loop. At age 12, Jobs cold-called HP co-founder Bill Hewlett from the phone book to ask for… Read More
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Apollo 15 FDAI Flown to the Moon
🚀 OTD 55 years ago, Apollo 15 launched to the moon, carrying the first EV to drive the lunar surface. And here’s the Apollo 15 Flight Director / Attitude Indicator (FDAI or “8 Ball” 🎱) that was used to fly to the moon and back, the newest addition to the space collection.at work. A photo… Read More
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⌚ Watching you watching me
I love skeleton watches that show the inner clockwork and those with unique takes on timekeeping. Here is another eclectic batch, from L to R: 1) The white Omega x Swatch Moonshine Gold. It is the first and only watch that shows the phases of Earth as seen by an astronaut on the moon (soon… Read More
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