Operations
Theory: democratic governance regimes
This is a classic yet accessible work on the political economy of various democratic governance schemes:
http://files.libertyfund.org/files/1063/Buchanan0102-03EBk_v6.0.pdf
Lunar Odyssey
The Moon Waits for Us
I have been affiliated off-and-on with the Moon Society since 1994, so I'm very happy to see this facet of space utilization getting traction here. I will help where I can!
Spaceship Earth
NASA Technology Roadmaps and mapping them to the SDGs
NASA has put extensive time and effort into documenting their technology roadmaps. I think it would be interesting if we can map each of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to the related technologies. As we begin this analysis, it can shed light on some important dual-use technology develop...
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New Program & Project Ideas
What you currently see on the network are some initial "seeds": some possible programs and projects. This doesn't mean that they will be the first projects that will necessary be executed. In the next few weeks, we will be annoucning the democratic process involved with selecting the first space ...
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FIRST STEP LEO: HOW?
Proof of reusable technologies value for space launch is being delivered now. How do we bring real innovation to the front in the face of huge development costs? Our very small venture is getting favorable traffic online with a "paper airplane", but has a big leap to justify funding. Our journ...
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Space Decentral Community Meeting - February 10th at 11am PST
Today we have "officially" launched Space Decentral: a social network for space and the first mission control center of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) pow...
Luna City
cis-llunar transportation - cyclers
There has been extensive work done by Aldrin, Genova, and others on the concept of Mars and lunar cyclers - spacecraft that continuously move between Earth/Mars or Earth/moon. This type of system would potentially be an efficient backbone to support a lunar base. Suggest that this type of approac...
Lunar Odyssey
Artemis, by Andy Weir
The new book Artemis, by Andy Weir (the author of The Martian) comes out on Nov. 14.
It's near-future (2080 or so) techno-thriller set in Artemis, the first and only city on the Moon, owned and managed by the Kenyan Space Corporation (KSC). How the KSC comes to create and run the first col...
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Facilitate Escape Velocity
Ok so I was riding my 150cc 1987 Honda Elite scooter on the Freeway the other day ;).
It was Saturday December 16th 2017 and it was a very windy day 30-40 MPH gusts.
I was on the San Rafeal Bridge going, trying, about 55 MPH. I felt like I was in a tornado.
This got me thinking, I know there i...
Building Blocks
Exotic propulsion schemes
The jury is still on for exotic propulsion schemes like EmDrive, Mach Effect Drive (MEGA) etc., but if they work they could open a cheap road to the planets and tomorrow the stars.
My last article about that published in Motherboard and CNET:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmzmpa/...