We had a longer Orbital Index this week all about New Glenn, Starship, weird NIAC Phase I awards, and Firefly & ispace heading toward the Moon!

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Here is Orbital Index’s special New Years edition, all about the most significant space industry highlights of 2024 and our predictions for 2025! Would love your feedback.

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The surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with dust, cosmic ray strikes, and downward moving stars, as filmed by Rosetta in 2016. Hope it’s snowing on your holidays too!

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Spent all evening coding on a geospatial mapping tool with Claude. Probably got 4-6x more done than I would have on my own. Having a background in pair programming and knowing how to coach an over-eager coding partner turns out to be an unexpected superpower in the world of AI.

Orbital Index Issue #295: Starship Flight 6, Intuitive Machines prepares IM-2, Sentinel-1C and Vega-C closing in on launch, and more!

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Why does a burger have less energy than steak?

Because a burger is steak in its ground state.

This week's Orbital Index was about ispace's next lunar mission, Perseverance climbing the rim of Jezero Crater, Starship Flight 6, and a bunch of weird science papers. If you're new to OI, it's a good intro issue! Kind of amazing we've done 294 of these... orbitalindex.com/archive/2024...

I’m excited to connect Bluesky up to Huginn and reinvigorate my live web monitoring that got broken when the Twitter firehose was shut down.