But I think with current R&D

Mars supply missions will be possible within next few years

Just letting you know, all this liberal stuff may seem to kill hope, but we have a really freaking awesome future in space to look foward too

I also think LEO private soace stations will be a game changer

Like Axiom

Definatley a HAB i would want to stay in! So cool!

hahaha

humans aren't becoming a "real spacefaring nation" for at least another century or two

And when we run into the covenant we'll be wiped out. The end.

Of course real space fairing civilization will be in a while

But the initial kickstart is very very soon

We already got the space industry privatized

We got the Space Force up to keep our foregin adversaries and they're space domination attempts under control

That's already a HUGE move

uh

space is barely privatised

the only sector that isn't is comms

I didn't expect any of this in this short amount of time. Honestly when I saw the last shuttle mission, I was really upset and thought space travel would suck and not make much progress for the next 50 years

everything else is HEAVILY subsided by the government

We got over 100 kickstaring companies ranging from cubesats to small sat launchers

tiny shit

Tiny but a HUGE move

a huge move in the right direction

We're able to fit the same old tech from a billion dollar satellite

but we need a move many orders of magnitude greater

Into a tiny 10x10x10cm cube

Like that's just insane

uh

you sure?

I uh seriously doubt that

This is a generalized statment

Of course

But you get the idea

you ain't fitting multi million dollar spectrometers or giant lenses in a 10cm^3 cube

Which is why

You launch a swarm of small sats

That replicates same task as a single sat at cheaper costs

far harder to achieve the same resolution

Sure optics ir spectrometers have some way to go

But let me use IMUs as a example