Topic
space
- Blue Ghost Moon Landing
Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon when Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon on March 2nd. What an incredible achievement – and that 4K video from the lunar…
- New Space
Jason Carman's S3 project has been relaunched (no pun intended) as The Story Company, continuing his incredible work on documenting the hard tech scene. At the start of the year they published their first feature docu…
- Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula. Only 8,500 light years away.
- Cape Canaveral
The launch complex at Cape Canaveral.
- Orbit To Seabase
blag-fidray: From orbit to the seabase.
- Ruins Of The Future
Ruins.
- Space
Space mushrooms.
- Valles Marineris
The Valles Marineris canyon on Mars. 2,500 miles long, 120 miles wide, 4.5 miles deep. The largest canyon in the Solar System.
- Noriyoshi Ohrai
I dig Noriyoshi Ohrai ’s spaceship concepts.
- Cylindrical Space Colony
Cylindrical space colony. Rick Guidice.
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Concept art from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ralph McQuarrie. (via @FedeItaliano76)
- F 15 Launching An Asm 135 Anti Satellite
F-15 launching an ASM-135 anti-satellite missile. Like a photo of a future space war. (via [](https://twitter.com/kane/status/1757863784138625351)@kane)
- The Island Of Hispaniola
The island of Hispaniola , from the ISS. (full resolution version)
- Arecibo
The collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico.
- Ringworld
I want a future of ringworld colonies and Dyson spheres.
- Starship Flight Test
It's amazing we get to watch these on livestreams. SpaceX willing to expose its R&D process and high-risk work to the world in real-time. The world definitely needs more companies taking big risks and pushing forward.
- Starship Mission to Mars
Beautiful and inspiring stuff from SpaceX: A convincing case for Elon to put his focus all-in on SpaceX, and not 6 other ventures at once.
- Bull Cases for Starlink
Byrne Hobart makes the case for Starlink's business model: The line between a vision and a sales pitch is always blurry, and Elon Musk is unusually good at using this to his advantage. There's a reasonable case that S…
- satellitemap.space
SpaceX's Starlink constellation is getting pretty dense. So far they've put over 1,000 in orbit, with a goal of eventually reaching tens of thousands. Someone put together this map visualization showing the orbit posi…
- Intro to Areography
The resemblance between Martian and Terran topography is amazing. Mars has volcanism, plains, valleys, and hard evidence of water formerly everywhere. Great shots here with renderings of Martian topography.
- Weekend Reading: Tagging with Turf, Mars Panorama, and Kinds of Easy
🗺 turf-tagger Bryan put together this neat little utility for merging point data with containing polygon attributes with spatial join queries. It uses Turf.js to do the geoprocess in the browser. 🚀 Mars Curiosity Hi…
- Weekend Reading: Universe Sandbox, Mapping Math, and Japanese Companies
🌌 Universe Sandbox This is a physics simulator that replicates the physics of interstellar objects. You can simulate massive planetary collisions or supernovae in the Earth's solar system, in case you want to see wha…
- Wernher von Braun and the Moon Landing
This is a neat clip from Walt Disney's Disneyland "Disneyland") TV series. Wernher von Braun explains the future technology that'll take us to the Moon, in 1955, several years before the Mercury program even began.
- Microgravity Will Change How We Make Everything
Bloomberg has been publishing this video series on future technologies called "Giant Leap." It's well-done and a nice use of YouTube as a medium. This one explores a number of new companies doing R&D in microgravity m…
- Weekend Reading: Atlas of Moons, Opendoor and Redfin, and Thinking While Walking
🌕 The Atlas of Moons This is an absolutely phenomenal project showcasing each of the major satellites in the Solar System. The full interactive maps of each one are incredible. It shows how much data we've gathered a…
- Have Clock, Will Travel
NASA has developed a portable atomic clock that would allow deep space probes to navigate on their own. As Geoff Manaugh notes here, when you're traveling in space with no access to a frame of reference, travel time f…
- Cape Canaveral
We took the kids over to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday on the way up to Jacksonville. A quick stopover in Titusville Friday night then morning over at the Cape. I always loved visiting KSC when I was younger. We ha…
- Weekend Reading: Tissot's Indicatrix, National Park Fonts, and Starlink
🌐 Tissot's Indicatrix This is a neat interactive tool to visualize distortion due to map projection using Tissot's indicatrix, a mathematical model for calculating the amount of warp at different points: Nicolas Augu…
- Weekend Reading: Private DNS, Opportunity, and Millennial Socialism
🔌 Announcing 1.1.1.1: Privacy-First DNS This is an old announcement, but new to me. CloudFlare now hosts privacy-centric DNS at 1.1.1.1, available to all: We talked to the APNIC team about how we wanted to create a p…