The Mauritian government was making it illegal to import a satellite dish, however, they hadn’t said anything about building your own. Reflecting on this little bit of legal hairsplitting, retired airline mechanic Jaques Gentil laughs, “I love a challenge. This was an opportunity for me to do something."
A SETI listening station on the moon was always thought to be impossible due to the obscene price tag of lunar missions. Now, commercial spaceflight is reducing the costs of bringing a payload to the moon and fueling a renaissance in lunar astronomy.
The Mauritian government was making it illegal to import a satellite dish, however, they hadn’t said anything about building your own. Reflecting on this little bit of legal hairsplitting, retired airline mechanic Jaques Gentil laughs, “I love a challenge. This was an opportunity for me to do something."
A SETI listening station on the moon was always thought to be impossible due to the obscene price tag of lunar missions. Now, commercial spaceflight is reducing the costs of bringing a payload to the moon and fueling a renaissance in lunar astronomy.
If you wake up on the Salvation Islands, a jungle oasis off the coast of the city of Kourou, French Guiana, then you are a stone’s throw away from an active spaceport. And a rocket launch might be imminent.
Following the explosive launch of Starship Super Heavy, Supercluster photographer Erik Kuna left Starbase for New York City to teach a class on photography. We asked him to shoot the Big Apple while in town.