by Michael Belfiore | Aug 12, 2013 | Blog
One of the things I love about this crazy town of Woodstock in which I live is the melange of viewpoints that come together and sometimes clash here. Yesterday as I enjoyed lunch at an outdoor cafe in the Village Green, a platoon of Harley riders in full leather...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 1, 2013 | Blog
Okay, it’s not quite for the masses…yet. It still costs $300,000. But the Raven surgical robot is much more affordable than the current industry leader in robotic surgery, the $1.8 million Intuitive Surgical da Vinci. Perhaps even more significantly, its...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 24, 2013 | Blog
The Space Frontier Foundation has decided to give me its award for outstanding journalist in the commercial spaceflight field. From the website of the SFF’s annual conference, where I’ll be given the award at a gala this Saturday: Michael Belfiore –...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 2, 2013 | Blog
Planetary Resources, the first asteroid mining company, has just closed a Kickstarter campaign based around the launch of its first asteroid-hunting space telescope. Total amount raised: $1,505,366 from 17,614 people. It’s one of the top-grossing Kickstarter...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 17, 2013 | Blog
Six hundred people have now signed up for a ride on the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo rocketplane. Initial cost was $200,000, but Virgin Galactic, billing itself as the world’s first spaceline, has bumped the price to $250,000. That represents at least $120...
