Planetocracy

Mass Value Report for October 2025

Starship V2 passes its final test, while LandSpace and Blue Origin approach reusability

Oct 31 • 

Peter Hague

5

Building a Cosmic Mind

The explosion of artificial intelligence is set to move out into space.

Oct 26 • 

Peter Hague

8

3

Thinking like a Developing Nation

The UK lacks many space capabilities, but that is changing.

Oct 19 • 

Peter Hague

12

3

September 2025

Mass Value Report for September 2025

What have the big players been up to this month?

Sep 30 • 

Peter Hague

7

Is There Life on Mars?

NASA finds tentative evidence of life in Martian samples, but has no way to bring them back yet.

Sep 16 • 

Peter Hague

9

The Great Collusion

When leaders agree too much, it is to the detriment of everybody else.

Sep 7 • 

Peter Hague

24

3

August 2025

Mass Value Report for August 2025

Milestones in re-usability

Aug 31 • 

Peter Hague

9

A Triumphant Return to Flight

Skeptics have enjoyed a string of Starship failures - but SpaceX has again proved them wrong.

Aug 27 • 

Peter Hague

21

The Death of the UK Space Agency

It wasn't much, and now it is less

Aug 20 • 

Peter Hague

18

Funding Colonisation

How do we pay for the grand ambition of populating the solar system?

Aug 16 • 

Peter Hague

40

8

Mass Value Report for July 2025

What are the levers that determine who wins the long term space race?

Aug 1 • 

Peter Hague

8

1

July 2025

Our Future Habitat in Space

Starting to put some solid numbers on our first stepping stone in Earth orbit.

Jul 20 • 

Peter Hague

13

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