{"id":3923547,"date":"2026-01-13T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/can-philanthropy-fast-track-a-flagship-telescope\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:04:35","slug":"can-philanthropy-fast-track-a-flagship-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/can-philanthropy-fast-track-a-flagship-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Can philanthropy fast-track a flagship telescope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of development that takes its cue from the Silicon Valley mindset of &#8220;move fast and (hopefully don&#8217;t) break things.&#8221; Given that several of the founders of rocketry and satellite companies have a Silicon Valley background, that probably shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, but the mindset has resulted in an exponential growth in the number of satellites in orbit, and also an exponential decrease in the cost of getting them to orbit.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-philanthropy-fast-track-flagship-telescope.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Space is a term now commonly used around the rocketry and satellite industries to indicate a new, speed focused model of development that takes its cue from the Silicon Valley mindset of &#8220;move fast and (hopefully don&#8217;t) break things.&#8221; Given that several of the founders of rocketry and satellite companies have a Silicon Valley [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}