The future fleet of over a thousand satellites seems to be on track.  The two prototype satellites in orbit are functioning very well. The satellites, named TinTin A and B, are able to communicate at high bandwidth with a latency of 25 ms.  That's fast enough for online video games. The satellite division has 4500 […]

A brief note.  I'm dropping Google Ads from my web site for the foreseeable future. 

Next Big Future has produced a number of articles recently on breakthrough propulsion.  Here is a summary of the current state of the art on these speculative systems.Low-Thrust Propulsion systems are too weak to be used to launch from the surface of a planet, but have extreme efficiency and high exhaust velocities.  Basically, a space […]

Elon Musk recently did a Reddit Q&A with members (Ask Me Anything).   This mostly focuses on details of the Mars vehicle update.  Here are some highlights. Mars Settlement The Mars city design from the video was mostly artistic ("I wouldn't read too much into that illustration".  There are no specific plans beyond propellant production, power, […]

Why an eBook? Under the category of Entrepreneurship, writing books on whatever topics you can allow a small to medium stream of secondary income.  It can also help establish your reputation in a particular field, and give you a way to communicate your ideas to a larger audience.  With the recent advent of eBooks such […]

I've uploaded the slides from my most recent Mars Society presentations on the Videos page of this site.  We are still waiting for the upload of the videos from the convention track talks, but the PDFs of the slides are here. Videos and Other Content