Kevin 🚀
@astro-kevin
Spacecraft operator, democracy & bureaucracy enjoyer Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin
This is the guy who wants to be able to point sunlight anywhere on earth at any time
Senators should be more than news aggregators or extensions of special interest whims
Quick succession, high fidelity measurements during a solar storm show that the solar wind can dominate the magnetic field, at least in the altitude that TRACERS is flying
Cool paper from the NASA TRACERS science team showing that solar wind has a significant effect on the magnetosphere, even on short time scales agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Starlink is also responsible for the vast majority of conjunction events (which require an operator response) between satellites
We still have a chance to keep space usable, but it would require treating space, especially LEO, as a finite resource and really picking and choosing what types of missions will benefit life on Earth the most.
Here are a few of the most striking plots from the @esa.int space environment report. Over 75% objects in space are now Starlink satellites. Without regulation, key orbits will become overwhelmed and unusable. This problem is only getting worse as other space billionaires attempt to compete w/ Musk.
Yeah man totally normal engineering development process to coopt an engineering version of an old mission for another planet and cobble something together for a different environment and different science goals. (I’m going insane just reading this)
Every day I wake up and my impostor syndrome is undone by NYT opinion columnists
Yeah man some of us were not stupid enough to believe this. And the reckoning that's coming will make woke 1 look like child's play. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
“How does a high percentage chance become a low percentage chance?????” There’s this crazy concept called “things change”
There’s no good reason for taking this position and it makes me wish there had been a decent primary challenger to you, Ted