Comments on: May 11, 2026 Quick space links https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/ Wed, 13 May 2026 12:08:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631762 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:08:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631762 CO2-to-gasoline on a bigger scale
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-gasoline-kilograms-day.html

This might be a good way to leverage American coal, in that tailings can supply the chip market…the jobs of miners protected, and exhaust products go to our car’s fuel tanks.

I have always believed that we needed to not drill or use our oil…sitting on it instead as part of the great game.
I had hoped Peak Oil would have drained the Middle East first such that America could take over.

Iran has been bombed back further into Third World status, and they still cause trouble with the Strait….and American’s are not getting their money’s worth from the War Department.

Infrastructure should be #1.

]]> By: Chuck https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631743 Tue, 12 May 2026 10:36:28 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631743 An alternate theory for gravity that doesn’t rely on dark matter

https://x.com/i/status/2052979686398116251?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631742 Tue, 12 May 2026 05:35:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631742 They got that from HEXAGON I suppose
https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091811a.html

That was part of the Titan rocket body.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631740 Tue, 12 May 2026 02:38:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631740 Interesting design for the birds. Looks as though the 2nd stage is integrated with the payload and will stay in orbit. Not having to allow for de-orbit prop allows maximizing revenue-producing mass per launch.

Good to see a start-up realizing that vertical integration including the launch vehicle and launch infrastructure will be essential to have any prayer of being able to be price-competitive with SpaceX in this market.

Ride ’em Cowboy!

]]> By: Gary https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631739 Tue, 12 May 2026 02:06:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631739 Prepare for protests about trash on Venus.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mangled-remains-probes-sent-venus-110000816.html

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631736 Tue, 12 May 2026 00:04:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631736 I guess they want that Wild West mojo.
Their old name too synth-pop ;)

Dark matter studies
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-unexplored-interactions-electrons-atomic-nuclei.html

New materials
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/what-new-materials-are-there.18181/page-27#post-907948

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/may-11-2026-quick-space-links/#comment-1631735 Mon, 11 May 2026 23:06:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123623#comment-1631735 “Rocket startup Aetherflux renames itself Cowboy Space”

“Space Cowboys” 2000 Eastwood (multiple production companies)

Is someone going to ride a booster down?

“Building data centers in space for artificial intelligence.” I hope that doesn’t come back to bite them. Or, us.

Also, when did ‘compute’, replace ‘computing’?

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