NASA’s decision to end its $11 billion, 15-year mission to Mars to deliver samples could spark a startup frenzy, TechCrunch reports. Describing its plans as too slow and too expensive, NASA goes back to the drafting board in a bid to enlist the help of the space industry. Sure, chances are you’ll worry that NASA won’t have the ability to manage its own mission on a schedule and budget it deems acceptable, but the possibility for a flood of dollars to absorb startups working to make space more accessible could prove to be an enormous boon.
Startups aren’t all NFT-based social media apps, enterprise software, and online games. Many of them concentrate on the bits and atoms of the technology barrier, despite the fact that the thought of constructing advanced hardware with no software component is nearly unthinkable. So hardware startups are literally working on each side of digital technology at the identical time.
But space startups don’t fret about that. Looking at the newest space headlines on TechCrunch, we see that Dark Space is working on a way to clean up space junk; True Anomaly is working on a moon landing; Varda Space’s efforts to produce drugs in space and bring them back to Earth appear to be working, so a further $90 million has been raised; Orbital Fab wants to refuel satellites; the list goes on.
So NASA’s money can trickle down into startup-sized buckets, and I’m here for it. Yes, I’m a large sci-fi idiot, but I’m still giddy with all of the hype surrounding our future as a species in space. To that end, if any startup working with NASA on a Mars rock mission needs a human who might be sent there to check the dials, etc., I’m at your disposal. Press play and let’s have some fun!
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