This week we have drones in Ukraine and SpaceX’s totally-not-a-cock rocket.

  1. The use of drones in Ukraine is advancing the state of the art very, very rapidly. First we had drones trailing fibre optic cables to avoid jamming, now there’s drones that navigate via camera and landmarks and, very shortly, autonomous kill decisions: IEEE Spectrum - Ukraine’s Killer Drones

  2. A very hot take on Starship, SpaceX’s big “go to Mars” rocket: Starship was doomed from the start. I’m not informed enough to assess the post’s validity, but the thesis is that Starship is just too heavy, and that making it lighter makes it too fragile in ways that just can’t be fixed. There’s updates as well - 1 and 2