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Profitably Exploiting Near-Earth Object Resources (ISDC 05)

May 21, 2005

This afternoon, I spoke about the business case for mining near-Earth objects at the International Space Development Conference. My conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). ). A complete transcript of the presentation follows. I look forward to any feedback that [...]

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Successful Space Entrepreneuring (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This was another great International Space Development Conference plenary session. The panelists were excellent, and the presentations and discussion were really top-knotch and informative. The moderator and panelists were the following:

Armand Musey, President, Near Earth LLC
David Gump, CEO, Transformational Space LLC
Jim Maser, President and [...]

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Building an Open Source Space Program (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This afternoon at the International Space Development Conference, I made a presentation entitled “Building an Open Source Space Program.” The conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). I have provided a transcript of my discussion below. Your comments and feedback are [...]

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New Entrepreneurs (ISDC 05)

May 19, 2005

Esther Dyson moderated a great panel discussion with a good cross-section of the new space entrepreneurs. The discussion introduced many of the themes that would be heard again and again over the course of the conference. Some of these themes include the parallels between the early days of the PC revolution and the current commercial [...]

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Open Source Space Development?

March 7, 2005

Over at FasterForward (the blog I write for my strategy consulting business) I’ve just posted a link
about the release of a PowerPoint draft of “Welcome to the Open Source Economy,” a discussion of the application of open source principles beyond software development. The document describes the essential features of the open source process and their [...]

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Jared Diamond’s Collapse and Space Resources

January 31, 2005

In case you missed it, at the very end of his review of Jared Diamond’s new Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed in The New York Times Book Review, Gregg Easterbrook slaps down Diamond by pointing out the significance of space resources to the future of civilization. Easterbrook writes that
for someone with a [...]

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Huygens and the Riches of the Outer Solar System

January 21, 2005

Last week’s successful landing of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Titan is already being touted as one of the greatest achievements in the history of space exploration. After the first week spent studying data from the probe, Huygens scientists have concluded that “Titan is an extraordinary world having Earth-like geophysical processes operating on [...]

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Dot-Com Meets Alt-Dot-Space

January 18, 2005

Two of the best-funded members of the alt.space movement made news this past week. First, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ secretive Blue Origin pulled back some of the covers on its plans in order to begin the FAA licensing process for a space launch facility on a vast ranch that Bezos owns in West Texas. Meanwhile, [...]

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Deep Impact Could Have Big Impact on Space Development

January 13, 2005

Wednesday afternoon, NASA’s Deep Impact mission lifted off successfully on a Boeing Delta 2 rocket, beginning a 6-month journey to Comet Tempel 1. After initial concerns raised by the craft’s entry into safe mode shortly after separation from the launch vehicle, NASA reported later in the day that all systems appeared to be operating normally.
The [...]

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Space Innovators Forge Link

January 11, 2005

As yet another sign of the growing activity in the private space sector, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., the leader in low-cost small satellites, announced the sale of a ten-percent stake to Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk’s California-based commercial rocket company SpaceX. As part of the deal, SpaceX Chairman and CEO Musk, joins the Surrey Satellite Technology [...]

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