Roman is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.

Great work by the team! Being ready to launch sooner than scheduled is really impressive for a program like this.

I love their upper stage concept. Compared to Starship, it seems like it should be a lot more rapidly reusable.

Agreed on brightness and deorbiting. There are some efforts underway for those.

FCC licensing includes how operators are reducing constellation brightness:

https://spacenews.com/fcc-directing-more-satellite-constellations-to-mitigate-effects-on-astronomy/

And their 5 year rule for deorbiting:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-5-year-rule-deorbiting-satellites-0

1 teragram?

Artemis is in an interesting place right now. It’s a bit of a mess. But it has a lot of cool and interesting parts.

Artemis 2 might launch in 2026 with 4 astronauts for a loop around the moon. Artemis 3 might launch this decade for a lunar landing with 2 astronauts aboard a SpaceX Starship lander. A lot needs to happen for that to work, like massive progress on the Starship program and Axiom space suits, and continued progress on Lockheed’s Orion capsule.

Artemis 2 and 3 aren’t givens anymore in the DOGE era, but they might still happen. A4+ rely on a new SLS stage from Boeing (EUS) and a new launch tower from Bechtel that are both running way over cost. Also in the mix is Lunar Gateway, a space station around the moon that isn’t really needed to get to the surface, but includes some different parts from international partners. So, who knows. We’ll see what happens.

SpaceX’s Starship contracts with NASA are fixed price and milestone based. So, if they blow it up, that cost is on them. Just like Boeing has had to shell out a lot of money from continuing to fail on Starliner.

and achieved a navigation fix

I set low expectations when I saw the headline, but that means they saw at least 4 GNSS sats at once, which is pretty big step forward.

Nvm, not interested

Yeah, alternate title: “Feedback Loop Works”.

And soon(ish) the new Bolt, EX30, EV3, and R3.

You can still do better than human drivers wiith only visible light cameras by using more of them at different heights and angles than a person could pay attention to. I think mixing in other sensors and data sources would still be even better, but they’re already getting more data than a human could.

I’m really hoping Rivian can pull off mass production of the R2 and R3.

I’d do 4 orders of magnitude less and take $4.4 million. That’s immediate FatFIRE, never need to work again kind of money.

Gas station style roofs wouldn’t hurt

There are definitely Leafs, but not a crazy amoun. Teslas are still king. I think that Leaf lease thing was a weird hack that very few people actually pulled off.

Where is that? I haven’t noticed any in or around Denver, but maybe I’m just seeing them but not noticing them (which would also be a good thing).

For sure. My car’s touchscreen started being intermittent last month, but luckily it doesn’t control things like climate, volume, turn signals, getting into gear…

Why did they need to reinvent and overcomplicate a door handle in the first place?

And not even close to the same size class. The “good news” is that Hyundai sells a totally different vehicle in the US?

Casper: 141.54" l, 62.80" w, 62.01" h

Ioniq 5: 182.48" l, 74.41" w, 63.19" h

Testing in production is normally scary enough. This is just an insane concept.