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Peter Hague

United Kingdom
As seen in: planetocracy.org, Substack, HotAir, UnHerd, Quillette, Upstract, Festival Flyer
Solutionist. Astrophysics PhD and scientific software engineer. Dad of 2. Let’s colonise the solar system together. Please visit the link below to read my blog:
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Mass Value Report for July 2026

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By Peter Hague
| planetocracy.org
Back in 2024, SpaceX suffered some minor anomalies with the second stage of Falcon 9, and I noticed that, after returning to flight, the trajectory of the Falcon program had changed. The prior two years had seen the fastest growth in flight rate ever - almost 60% year-on-year, compounding, comparable to the rate of transistor growth under Moore’s Law, which drove the computer revolution. Post-anomaly, the growth rate slowed.
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Why Starship is Hard

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By Peter Hague
| planetocracy.org
The thirteenth flight of Starship was, as with previous flights, a partial success that helped SpaceX towards their testing objectives. A previous attempt on the 16th of July was aborted at ignition due to issues with the Raptor engines, but this time the countdown and launch proceeded smoothly.
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Futurism and Traditionalism

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By Peter Hague
| Substack
This is a guest post by Peter Hague of Planetocracy. Peter is a unique writer with a perspective that’ll change your view about space and the destiny of our entire species: To him, spacefaring isn't a science-fiction trope but an unlocked door that we will all walk through. Visit on on Planetocracy, linked below, and you’ll agree with him! Now, on with the show… The problem with talking to people about the future is that most of them don’t really, deep down, believe it exists.
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