Lost In Space: New Zealand’s $30M Participation Trophy
What Happened? At $30 million dollars, MethaneSAT was easily New Zealand’s largest ever investment in “space”. It is also by…
Stout Saplings: How To Grow A Space Ecosystem
New Zealand has unique opportunities in space. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post (which turned into a Newsroom…
Letting the Per Capita Go To Your Head…
It is worth pausing to recognise the extent to which New Zealand and New Zealanders have achieved something remarkable in space. And I am looking forward to seeing what we – and my students – do next.
Follow the Money: The Science of Impact
There is a purely pragmatic issue with targeting the Marsden Fund at economic outcomes: it could hurt more than it helps.
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
There is insight in the stories that numbers can tell, and for some of us that insight offers a sense of calm in turbulent times. Which may be why In the midst of this year’s rains I started making graphs of the accumulated rainfall and how it stacked up against previous years.
In space, no one can hear you scream
We should set ourselves the goal of doing things in space that make people here and elsewhere look up and say, “Wow, the Kiwis are doing that? That’s AWESOME!”