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John Gowan interviewing our very own @natosaichek on the largest technical challenges we face transiting the lower atmosphere at orbital speeds.
Space-gun space-fun!
youtu.be/knBC4KsAmdU?si…
Space-gun space-fun!
youtu.be/knBC4KsAmdU?si…
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mike grace retweeted
Cool to see my art up on the wall. Thanks @_mikegrace
My pal Adrian paints as a hobby. He made two lovely abstracts of a locomotive and a spaceship and offered them gifts.
He gave me the go-ahead to make an AI space gun in his style. I just ordered it as a poster that'll hang in the foyer with his other two.
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My pal Adrian paints as a hobby. He made two lovely abstracts of a locomotive and a spaceship and offered them gifts.
He gave me the go-ahead to make an AI space gun in his style. I just ordered it as a poster that'll hang in the foyer with his other two.
He gave me the go-ahead to make an AI space gun in his style. I just ordered it as a poster that'll hang in the foyer with his other two.
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mike grace retweeted
There is nothing more important than defending Western Civilization
So I am happy to say I'm bringing the USS Hornet Defense Tech Hackathon back as an annual tradition.
360 hackers on a WW2 aircraft carrier. Overnight in the bunks.
Jan 30/31
So I am happy to say I'm bringing the USS Hornet Defense Tech Hackathon back as an annual tradition.
360 hackers on a WW2 aircraft carrier. Overnight in the bunks.
Jan 30/31
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There are two audiences / PMF’s for space guns: defense needs affordable hypersonic tests, and launch demand is climbing.
Longshot built the world's largest light-gas gun near SF to serve both.
Hypersonics now, orbit at $100/kg next.
longshotspace.com
Longshot built the world's largest light-gas gun near SF to serve both.
Hypersonics now, orbit at $100/kg next.
longshotspace.com
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featured in Techcrunch!
Longshot is trying to build a gun big enough to make space data centers a reality.
spr.ly/6016BH1M48
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excited to pitch at TC Disrupt this morning!
Longshot is in the Top 20 at @TechCrunch Disrupt!
We’re first at 10am PT sharp today. Watch live: youtube.com/live/SqkhdhuN6…
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In 1992, John Hunter’s SHARP light-gas gun at Lawrence Livermore fired 5 kg projectiles at 3 km/s using compressed hydrogen.
The gun worked, but the follow-on satellite launcher needed ~$1B, and in the post-Cold War ’90s, nobody was buying. Funding ended in 1995.
The gun worked, but the follow-on satellite launcher needed ~$1B, and in the post-Cold War ’90s, nobody was buying. Funding ended in 1995.
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In 1966, Gerald Bull’s Project HARP fired a Martlet 2 projectile to an altitude of 180 km from a 16-inch gun, setting a gun-launch record that still stands. Each shot cost about $3,000.
The gun worked, but the satellite market it needed didn’t exist yet. Caught in the crossfire and shifting government priorities, the project lost its funding in 1967.
The gun worked, but the satellite market it needed didn’t exist yet. Caught in the crossfire and shifting government priorities, the project lost its funding in 1967.
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"They hated him, for he spoke the truth."
Amos 5:10
Amos 5:10
@_mikegrace on why deep tech founders should stop reaching for new technology:
"I'm an economist. I see the world change through incentives and markets."
"There is nothing about the Falcon nine, the reusable rocket that they built, that could not have been built in the 1970s."
m or you get technical novelty. You can't do both. You won't succeed."
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