New Space at GTS 2013

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   jurvetson

   Mar 29, 2013 at 6:58 pm

   Reese Jones photo of my opening comments on SpaceX:
   

   Because military launches will not be open to global bidding, the true measure of global competitiveness is the commercial launch business. The U.S. had 100% market share in 1980. For the past three years, it has been 0%. SpaceX launches on manifest will reverse that trend for the 2013 onward on the right:
   
   Note that the light blue bars in the top right corner are the contracts still in play.

   And the Grasshopper tests are pointing a way to another 10x reduction in cost, maybe more:
   

   I explained how lowering launch costs opens up myriad array of entrepreneurial ideas of what one can do in space when the cost of access comes down 10-100x. Such as the Android phone-sats from NASA Ames:
   
   who I met in the desert with Rocket Mavericks for g-shock testing, and then invested in (video). And across the pond, SSTL flew an Android phone into orbit a few weeks ago.

   There’s even a private sector effort (which I support) to put a satellite in orbit around the sun to map all potentially threatening asteroids’ trajectories for the next 100 years:
   
   Because of the new low cost access to space, the B612 effort, in total, costs the same as the new wing of the SF Asian Art Museum. And B612 could argue that for the same money, you could protect all the artifacts. =)

   

   Earlier this year, I got a photo of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two under construction:
   

   For a segue, I ended with a photo of Mikhail (center speaker above) introducing the head of the Russian Space Agency to his first taste of fro yo at SpaceX
   

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   angry shock

   Apr 2, 2013 at 4:28 pm

   Siempre muy guapo, Steve. 😉

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