by Michael Belfiore | Aug 19, 2011 | Blog
George Whittinghill’s wife likes to joke that he and their son Ian share a defective gene, one that makes them both crazy for rockets. Together they comprise a good percentage of the 7-member Whittinghill Aerospace team. Their ambitious goal: send small payloads...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 13, 2011 | Blog
Yesterday I Skyped in to Bloomberg West, Bloomberg TV’s show on innovation. The show originates from San Francisco, but I didn’t have to go any farther than my office. Anchor Emily Chang asked me about Thursday’s failure of the DARPA Hypersonic Test...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 27, 2011 | Blog
Beyond a doubt, the success of the new sources of energy we need to replace dwindling, polluting, conflict-causing fossil fuels depends on storage. Batteries, in other words. What really killed the electric car? Crappy batteries. Those lead acid batteries in your gas...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 10, 2011 | Blog
“Inner space is useful. Outer space is history.” Thus reads the subhead of the cover editorial in the current issue of The Economist. It’s just another major media outlet taking the opportunity of the Space Shuttle’s retirement to declare the...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 4, 2011 | Blog
The Space Shuttle will roar into retirement on Friday, leaving NASA with no vehicle of its own to replace it. The situation has some, including moonwalker Neil Armstrong and US Senator Richard Shelby, declaring the end of US competitiveness in space. Yet, I would...
