Vik Kachoria

Flight Viz: Seeing Global Aviation in Real Time

Flight Viz: Seeing Global Aviation in Real Time At any given moment, there are typically between 12,000 and 20,000 aircraft in the air simultaneously around the world, depending on the time of day and season. Over the course of a single day, global aviation now regularly exceeds 100,000 flights. That…

By Vik Kachoria May 11, 2026AviationNo Comments

Aviation Supersonic Flight

Supersonic Flight: The Investment Landscape

Who’s building it, what it takes, and where the real investment opportunities lie 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 Supersonic passenger flight is re-emerging after decades…

By Vik Kachoria May 10, 2026Aviation, Supersonic FlightNo Comments

Aviation Supersonic Flight

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…

By Vik Kachoria May 3, 2026Aviation, Supersonic FlightNo Comments

Artemis Beyond Earth

Artemis II — Progress, Power, and the Economics of Space

Artemis II — Progress, Power, and the Economics of Space More than fifty years have passed since humans last walked on the Moon. That fact still feels strangely difficult to reconcile with the pace of technological advancement surrounding us. We live in a world of reusable rockets, autonomous drones, AI-driven…

By Vik Kachoria April 2, 2026Artemis, Beyond EarthNo Comments

Technology & Progress

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…

By Vik Kachoria March 21, 2026Technology & ProgressNo Comments

Technology & Progress

Climate Consensus and the Absence of Progress

There appears to be broad agreement that the climate is changing and that human activity plays a meaningful role. Whether the number is 90%, 95%, or 99% is less interesting to me than the fact that the debate over belief seems largely settled. Which raises a more curious question: if…

By Vik Kachoria July 10, 2023Technology & ProgressNo Comments

Mars

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…

By Vik Kachoria July 5, 2023MarsNo Comments

Hubble Frontier Field – Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403

Technology & Progress

The Universe Didn’t Always Tick Like This

Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) Time dilation is one of those ideas that never quite gets old—no matter how many times you encounter it. Looking back nearly 14 billion years, toward the early universe, astronomers have found evidence that time itself passed more slowly than it does today. Not metaphorically.…

By Vik Kachoria July 5, 2023Technology & ProgressNo Comments

First Transportation Mode: Travel by Camel

Aviation Technology & Progress

The Need for Speed – Travel Faster & Further

First Transportation Mode: Travel by Camel The “need for speed” is not a modern obsession. It is a persistent human instinct—an urge to move farther, faster, and more efficiently in search of opportunity. From camels and horses to steamships and railroads, from automobiles to jet aircraft, every major leap in…

By Vik Kachoria March 9, 2023Aviation, Technology & ProgressNo Comments