by Michael Belfiore | Jul 15, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Last night Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launched its first operational satellite from its pad in Marshall Islands. This is the first time that a privately funded liquid fuel rocket has achieved this milestone.This was the fifth launch of the Falcon 1 rocket...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 3, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Leonard Kleinrock, who published the first paper on packet switching in 1962, and who led the ARPA-funded team at UCLA that made the first connection on the Internet, described the scene to me on the phone to me a few minutes ago.Sitting at a computer terminal at UCLA...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 2, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Virgin Galactic put out a press release last week along with this video about the successful conclusion of the first round of rocket motor tests for its SpaceShipTwo passenger ship, being built by Scaled Composites.Not too many technical details here, so I did some...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 22, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
My book about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, now not only has a cover, but a finalized table of contents as well.Full title: The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial LimbsPublisher:...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 16, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
My DARPA book now has a cover. Thanks to Harry LeBlanc for suggesting a variation of the subtitle. Now it’s off to copyediting and fact checking, and we’re on schedule for October’s publication date.
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 30, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
My second daughter, Jade Star, was born Saturday, 3/28/09, at 4:19 a.m. She was 6 pounds, 11 ounces.She made a dramatic entrance; Wendy and I only barely made it to the hospital in time after a very short labor. Jade was in Wendy's arms within 10 minutes of our...
