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.

Special Pages

Starbase Repairs Underway as the Shipyard Builds More Hardware to Fly

News and Not News

Sorry, But I Got Nothing

TROPICS Mission Launches to Resume Sunday

ESA's Juice Has a Problem

Weekly Small Space News Story Roundup 7

It's a Good Thing It's Star Wars Day

Rocket Lab Announced New Hypersonic Testing Program

And the Starship-Spawned Lawsuits Begin

Elon Musk Restates He Expects the Next Starship Test in About 2 Months

Protecting Falcon Heavy

Between Games of a Double Header

US Fish and Wildlife Says No Big Impacts from Starship

Yes, The FAA Has Grounded Starship

SpaceX to Take Over Vandenberg SFB Complex 6,

Japanese Hakuto-R M1 Probe to Land Tuesday Apr. 25, 12:40 PM ET

China May Launch Their Version of a Mars Helicopter Before End of '20s

It's Earth Day 2023

I'm Leaning Toward a Simple Explanation

The Big Story is the Big Rocket