Texas Space Jobs Increasing?

My latest Clearancejobs.com article about the movement of New Space companies and their jobs to Texas. Perhaps there’s a career waiting for you with one of these companies? They all appear to be hiring. If you’re curious about which companies are making the move, please read: Texas Space Jobs Increasing.

Some Changes Coming

Hi! If you’re reading this, thank you! That means you deliberately chose to read my posts, and that takes some time. So I’m writing this to tell you there will be changes to the number of posts on this site every week. Why? Well, that’s the good news–at least for me. After one year and […]

Losing Proposition: Cutting USAF Space Operations

The United States Air Force (USAF) looks to be on the verge of admitting it can’t spend the money on its own people to operate its own satellites. They are considering some piecemeal options for moving contractors into what were military positions. This SpaceNews post describes four studies the USAF will be contracting out to figure out if […]

Deadly Bubbles of Plasma

Business Insider posted an interesting article last Friday about plasma bubbles and how they affect communications between satellites and devices on Earth. The post suggests that ionospheric plasma bubbles seem to occur primarily around the Earth’s equator. The article also gives a short description of what a plasma bubble is–the rising of a low-density plasma through […]

SpaceX: They’re Not the First Ones to Try This

It seems I hear this refrain a lot in reference to SpaceX and its rocket reusability attempts, “They’re not the first ones to try this.” It gets a little tiresome because it sounds like an informed opinion, but really isn’t. It also seems that SpaceX itself is dealing with the same kind of sentimen–but I can only […]