Boom Supersonic Overture
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Boom Supersonic Deep Dive

Image Courtesy of Boom Supersonic Disclosure The author is the founder of Spike Aerospace, a company developing supersonic aircraft. This analysis is based solely on publicly available information and reflects an industry perspective. Executive Summary Boom Supersonic is the most advanced commercial supersonic startup in the public domain. Its successful…
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Artemis II: The Real Risk Is Integration Complexity (Part 2)
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Artemis II: The Real Risk Is Integration Complexity (Part 2)

Series: Artemis II and the Infrastructure Phase of Lunar ReturnTop-Level Article: Artemis II Returned Humans to the Moon — But That Was the Easy Part Strategic Summary The greatest challenge facing Artemis may no longer be launch capability itself. The harder problem is integration complexity. Apollo was comparatively vertically integrated.…
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Artemis II Returned Humans to the Moon — But That Was the Easy Part
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Artemis II Returned Humans to the Moon — But That Was the Easy Part

Strategic Summary Artemis II was a genuine technical and historical success. For the first time in more than fifty years, the United States successfully sent astronauts beyond low Earth orbit using modern spacecraft, modern software, modern materials, and modern operational systems. Orion and the Space Launch System validated that America…
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Spike Aerospace Deep Dive: A Premium Path to Supersonic Flight
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Spike Aerospace Deep Dive: A Premium Path to Supersonic Flight

Executive Summary The return of civilian supersonic flight is often framed as a question of scale—whether faster travel can be extended across large passenger markets at airline economics. Spike Aerospace is approaching the problem from a different direction. Rather than attempting to make supersonic travel broadly accessible, Spike is targeting…
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Supersonic Flight’s Stalled Evolution—Could It Finally Break Through?
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Supersonic Flight’s Stalled Evolution—Could It Finally Break Through?

In a world where computing power has advanced exponentially, communication is effectively instantaneous, and global businesses operate in real time, one critical dimension has remained largely unchanged: the speed at which we move people across long distances. A flight from New York to London today takes roughly as long as…
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Can ChatGPT Become a Knowledge System?
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Can ChatGPT Become a Knowledge System?

I’ve been spending a significant amount of time in ChatGPT—exploring ideas, developing strategies, and working across multiple domains. It is, without question, an incredibly powerful tool. But as I continue to build more and more conversations, I’m running into a structural limitation that feels increasingly important: It’s becoming difficult to…
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Ingenuity on Mars
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Autonomous eVTOL Is Hard. Try Doing It on Mars.

Over 600 companies are currently developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—eVTOLs—to transform urban mobility on Earth. The promise is seductive: shorter trips between airports and city centers, fewer cars, less friction. Many of these aircraft are being designed to fly autonomously. That alone is a formidable challenge. Autonomous vertical…
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