The Silicon Graybeard

In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

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A couple of post updates

Starship Flight 14 has a more definite launch date and time

Stoke Space sets another milestone

Odds & Ends

The 8 year mission to Mercury of BepiColombo began a new phase

SpaceX, NASA delay crew-13 mission due to a leak in Dragon

It's hard not to talk about the NGRST launch

It's a news day for Europe's Ariane 6

Some background on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

SpaceX sets B1067's new record and then turns the world upside down

SpaceX going for yet another Falcon 9 reuse record

NASA and Katalyst end the Swift rescue mission

Another Chinese company successfully lands a booster

It's one-half day

A very slow news day

Japan launches a big one; China loses one early in flight

Update on efforts to rescue the Swift rescue mission

The Falcon 9 upper stage hit the moon - now the race starts