Okay, not really to know that this new company, Corsair space, will end up becoming a direct rival of SpaceX, but I know it will do things in space and that if I refer to SpaceX inside, people are more likely to click. Look, I’m honest, here. I also know that one of the partners is the co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, who is someone I have always liked and respected. The company is still pretty enigmatic, so let’s see what we know so far.
Woz tweeted about the company yesterday, stating that this private space company would be “unlike the others,” which I can only refer to companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos ’Blue Origin, and Richard BransonVirgin Galactic:
The tweet also included this video:
Video is one of those vague, artistic public relations things designed to convey a kind of general tone and feeling, and it does exactly that. And while no specific goals were made clear beyond some general clues to humanity’s exploration, unity, accessibility, climate issues, and past space achievements, there are some interesting images that deserve a bit. more exam.
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Like this:
It is a Mercury capsule, the first manned spacecraft used by Americans in the early 1960s. This image appears to show a Mercury attached to some sort of orbiting team, something that never happened in any Mercury mission.
This seems to be a bit of a troll for our particular audience:
Yes, it’s a guy who changes what looks like an automatic transmission as if it were a manual. I mean, him I could change from N to D or D to 2 or something, but still.
The following may be more of a suggestion about Privateer’s plans:
So what kind of orbital network? For what purpose? No idea.
Hey, it’s Sally Ride, on the space shuttle Challenger. I’m not quite sure why it has been shown, but hello, Sally.
This upper plane looks like the inside of a Soviet / Russian Soyuz capsule during re-entry. I don’t think they are real images, but a recreation.
Speaking of non-real, it doesn’t seem to be the real ISS:
It looks like the International Space Station, but keep in mind that the large room ring and the different shapes of pressure modules. Maybe it’s a future variant of the station?
I don’t think I learned much from the video, other than making decisions to show space events and hardware that didn’t exist, for some reason.
There have been some discussions about the company i will go to the orbital junk cleaning business, possibly with spaceships made of 3D printed titanium, such as the company called Desktop Metal reported that Privateer is one of its first customers use technology.
It looks like the company will shut up until Maui Advanced Conference on Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS), from tomorrow.
I’m very curious to see what this is all about, because Steve Wozniak isn’t really the same kind of person as the tech billionaires who have created space companies so far.
Wozniak has always been more dedicated to making technology accessible and useful to everyone, give time and equipment to school districts, and is basically a great engineer with a real love for machines.
Did you know how the guy managed to get high-resolution colors on the Apple II by taking advantage of a peculiarity of how TVs produce color? It managed to get six colors on a 280×192 pixel screen with a handful of chips, while IBM’s CGA graphics card needed more than 100 chips to get four colors on a 320×200 screen.
If anything can translate into doing something in space, well, I’m excited.