Spaaaaace (Part 1)

Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought

Prices are rising for customers of both Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet service and his SpaceX rockets, with “excessive levels of inflation” to blame.

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That means April nights will be pretty cloudy throughout.

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NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that’s not SpaceX

NASA is offering a second lucrative contract to fund a lunar lander for its upcoming mission to put men and the first woman on the Moon, it announced this week.

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Man! Tonight is raining and it isn’t april yet. Please, behave yourself!

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Ummmm, that’s tomorrow. That would be unfortunate. Sigh…

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Wozniak startup to share orbital space junk data

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak opened up about his space startup Privateer at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week.

Privateer’s mission is to build software that taps into data from various sources to track objects in Earth orbit, which includes satellites and debris that could potentially damage or even destroy those satellites.

It seems Privateer wants to gather up this information and share it with national space agencies, companies, lawmakers, regulators, and so on, so that the records can be used to avoid collisions and make better decisions about our use of space. To do this, Privateer has built a data engine, or proprietary knowledge graph technology as it likes to call it, that collects and processes this object information for others to use.

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A long, long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away…

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Liquid modernity…

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There is no dark side on the Moon…

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Uh oh, the humans have discovered our Omega Ray!

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