Diff for "AshleeVance"

Books by Ashlee Vance

When the Heavens Went On Sale

The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Ecco Books 2023

• p002 SpaceX Omelek island, Kwajalein 2005
• p008 Flight 3 August 2008 orbit insertion fail
• p009 Flight 4 in 8 weeks, C-17 transport, air pressure crush and fix
• p010 September 28 to orbit, Falcon 1, 1000 pounds
• p013 2000 Falcon 9, 2 then 4 astronauts to ISS
• p014 1960s to 2020 2500 earth satellites, doubled by 2022, expected 50K to 100K by 2033
• p015 China Russia ... US about 3/4 of 100 satellite launches per year

• p025 Robbie Schingler 2017 Feb 15. 88 Planet Labs Doves + 16 other small satellites on Indian PSLV

• p027 Mangalyaan on 2000 rupee banknote

• p028 Satish Dhawan Space Centre

• p029 Shingler prayed at temple

• p031 3 "Canaries" turn on magnetorquers, orient towars sun, turn on solar panels, found 2 errors, uploaded corrections

• p035 Office of Strategic Influence Pete Worden Space and Missile Systems Center Los Angeles, team of 50, write interesting papers

• p039 After wrecking one rocket and then another and then another, !SpaceX began to implement some of the things Worden and others had suggested.

• p043 On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones "...Cones" phrase used by WW2 army air corps, said Worden's father.

• p045 NRO in L.A. SDI Abrahamson

• p046 1988 National Review article

• p047 Clementine 1994 Delta Clipper

• p049 "In case of war, break this pane of glass for the crazy person"

• p051 mentions Creon Levit -> interesting talk, deorbit with night-side retrograde liquid CO2 release -> solid crystals -> collision, then dissipate day side

• p053 conflict with Alabama senator Richard Shelby and cronies (pork barrel pig sez Worden) and cronies

• p054 Dangerous Sports Club Alan Weston

• p055 Lunar Micro Lander $40M ballooned into $280M LADEE

• p057 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS 2009

  • "neutron emissions that are consistent with hydrogen-rich deposits covered by desiccated regolith"

  • https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.281.5382.1496

• p058 Leased 40 acres / 40 years to Google for $148M

• p059 Hired Chris Kemp 2006, Astra in 2016

• p061 Kemp lambasted by Ross Perot for halving $180M spend

• p062 2008 Singularity University

• p064 foreigners on sacred ground

  • Planet Labs Will Marshall England, Chris Boshuizen Australia

• p065 Kemp detained for taking NASA laptop to Austrian space conference
• p068 Worden at Ames 2006 to 2015 retirement
• p069 Machiavelli: "The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in those who would profit by the new order."

• p071 Marshall, Schingler, and Jessy Kate (Cowan-Sharp) Shingler 21677 Rainbow Drive Cupertino pic

• p074 unusual ads on Craigslist, communal meals, large library

• p077 two day hike from mansion to Waddell Beach, hitch ride home with Brin and Page

• p080 Will Marshall tapes, audio life log

• p083 Telescope unaffordable, built one, astronomer Patrick Moore provided the $1600 lens

• p083 U Leicester, friend Kevin Parkin "He cared. He took the time to rig my room to explode. How can you not find that endearing?"

• p085 Marshall Internships at NASA, met Chris Kemp, Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development

• p085 2000-4, PhD physics at Oxford under Roger Penrose

• p087 Lego Satellite Mindstorm NXT kits, Make Magazine cover

• p089 Pete Klupar consumer electronics advancing faster than NASA

• p089 PhoneSat at Ames, Phonesat.org, Balls Experimental Rocket Launch at Black Rock Desert. Tripoli amateur high power rocketry

more later

Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future

Ecco Books 2015

BVTN lib not read yet