Ramin Skibba

California

Science/Tech/Climate Journalist/Writer. Previously: @WIRED staff writer; astrophysicist. Muppets & Star Trek fan. My newsletter: https://t.co/BKORRVhz6G

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Articles

How Plagues Are Intertwined With Social Justice

6 days ago | truthdig.com | Ramin Skibba

It seemed unthinkable. What began as a few coronavirus cases in Wuhan, China, quickly spread throughout the country and to every corner of the world. Global society ground to a halt as governments sought to stem Covid-19’s relentless advance. All told, some Americans have died to date, life expectancy plummeted by nearly three years from 2019 to 2021, and student test scores dropped precipitously, while the global death toll grimly ramped up to more than 7 million people.
Book Review: How Plagues Are Intertwined With Social Justice

2 weeks ago | undark.org | Ramin Skibba

It seemed unthinkable. What began as a few coronavirus cases in Wuhan, China, quickly spread throughout the country and to every corner of the world. Global society ground to a halt as governments sought to stem Covid-19’s relentless advance. All told, some Americans have died to date, life expectancy plummeted by nearly three years from 2019 to 2021, and student test scores dropped precipitously, while the global death toll grimly ramped up to more than 7 million people.
Todos los competidores que desafían el monopolio de SpaceX

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.es | Ramin Skibba

SpaceX se ha consolidado como una potencia en el sector de los lanzamientos espaciales. En solo dos décadas, ha desplazado a gigantes históricos como Boeing, Lockheed Martin y Northrop Grumman, hasta alcanzar una posición casi monopolística en Estados Unidos. Según un análisis de SpaceNews, en 2024 fue responsable del 87 % de los lanzamientos orbitales de EE UU. Desde mediados de la década de 2010, domina los contratos de la NASA y colabora estrechamente con el Pentágono.
MIT Technology Review en español

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.es | Ramin Skibba
ロケット市場に競争の波、世界のライバルはスペースXの牙城を崩せるか

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.jp | Ramin Skibba

スペースX（SpaceX）は、ロケット打ち上げの分野で圧倒的存在感を持つ企業だ。わずか20年の間に同社は、かつての航空宇宙大手であるボーイング（Boeing）、ロッキード（Lockheed）、ノースロップ・グラマン（Northrop Grumman）を追い抜き、米国のロケット打ち上げにおいて、ほぼ独占的な地位を獲得した。スペースニュース（SpaceNews）の分析によると、2024年に米国内で実施された軌道への打ち上げの87%をスペースXが占めた。 2010年代半ば以降、同社は米国航空宇宙局（NASA）の打ち上げ契約を独占し、ペンタゴン（米国防総省）の主要請負業者に納まっている。数多くの人工衛星と民間の有人宇宙飛行を5度打ち上げた実績から、現在では商業顧客の主要な打ち上げプロバイダーにもなっており、今後もさらに多くの打ち上げを予定している。他の宇宙開発企業も、何年にもわたって競争に奮闘している。しかし信頼性の高いロケットの開発には、時間をかけた地道な作業と莫大な予算が必要だ。現在、少なくともそのうちの数社がスペースXに追いつこうとしている。...
Private Space Launch Rivals Catching Up to SpaceX

3 weeks ago | govtech.com | Ramin Skibba

(TNS) — SpaceX is a space launch juggernaut. In just two decades, the company has managed to edge out former aerospace heavyweights Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman to gain near-monopoly status over rocket launches in the US; it accounted for 87% of the country’s orbital launches in 2024, according to an analysis by SpaceNews. Since the mid-2010s, the company has dominated NASA’s launch contracts and become a major Pentagon contractor.
How one company wants to make geoengineering profitable

3 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Ramin Skibba

Few outsiders have gotten a glimpse of Stardust's plans, and the company has not publicly released details about its technology, its business model, or exactly who works at its company. But the company appears to be positioning itself to develop and sell a proprietary geoengineering technology to governments that are considering making modifications to the global climate - acting like a kind of defense contractor for climate alteration.
Reach for the Stardust? Former Israel Atomic Energy Commission official leads controversial geoengineering start-up

3 weeks ago | thebulletin.org | Ramin Skibba |Jessica McKenzie

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In July 2012, a renegade American businessman, Russ George, took a ship off the coast of British Columbia and dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate dust into the Pacific Ocean.
A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Ramin Skibba

Stardust’s prospective clients seem to be governments: As countries consider geoengineering, Stardust could be poised to sell them tools to meet those goals, several experts said.
A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

1 month ago | wired.com | Ramin Skibba

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In July 2012, a renegade American businessman, Russ George, took a ship off the coast of British Columbia and dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate dust into the Pacific Ocean. He had unilaterally, and some suggest illegally, decided to trigger an algae bloom to absorb some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—an attempt at geoengineering, a tech-based approach to combating climate change.