Flux Research, Monitoring and Evaluation

03/31/2025

Seeking Paid Summer Intern - Digitalizing one of the most important sets of documents in the world. In-person at Harvard Lamont Library. For more, see: https://shorturl.at/DDghn

09/10/2024

The most important spacecraft in history is coming together in California!

NEO Surveyor’s ‘Optical Bench,’ a platform on which key pieces of the telescope will rest, comes to life in the clean room. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most important space…

05/24/2024

Detection. Detection. Detection. Worry about finding the hazardous asteroid, THEN worry about deflecting it....

Detection. Detection. Detection. Worry about finding the hazardous asteroid, THEN worry about deflecting it.

05/10/2024

A privilege and an honor to meet with the Near-Earth Object Surveyor team over the last few days.

Turns out the space mission that could [actually] save the planet will also contribute significantly to our scientific understanding of asteroids, comets, and even potentially the first significant number of detections of interstellar objects!!

03/28/2024

NEO Surveyor fully funded for FY2024!

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, perhaps the most important space mission of all time (see this previous post), will, when hopefully launched in 2028, find dangerous asteroids before they fi…

03/28/2024

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, perhaps the most important space mission of all time (see this previous post), will, when hopefully launched in 2028, find dangerous asteroids before they find us. The road to getting the mission fully funded and launched has been long, steep, and rocky. 2024 Full Funding Approved Finally! Just slightly over six months after the fiscal year began and three months after the start of the calendar year, we have a federal budget for 2024....

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, perhaps the most important space mission of all time (see this previous post), will, when hopefully launched in 2028, find dangerous asteroids before they fi…

01/17/2024

Latest Endurable post: why spend time on planetary defense and the more prudent handling of nuclear weapons?

I suppose somewhere near the beginning I should lay out some groundwork. Of all the courses and opportunities in life, why choose to learn about the dark pathways that lead towards human extinction…

01/05/2024

I own an update on the funding status of the Near Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor). The good news is both chambers support full funding for the crown jewel of space missions in Fiscal Year 2024. The bad news is that Congress has whipped itself into an internicine froth instead of passing a budget for the next fiscal year....

I own an update on the funding status of the Near Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor). The good news is both chambers support full funding for the crown jewel of space missions in Fiscal Year 2024…

07/25/2023

Newest blog post is up! A Citizen’s Guide to Getting NEO Surveyor into Space

https://endurable.blog/2023/07/25/a-citizens-guide-to-getting-neo-surveyor-into-space/

Midjourney AI Prompt “citizen’s guide” I want the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor to fly, but what am I supposed to do about it?? Indeed, NEO Surveyor has already gathered an exp…

07/20/2023

GOOD NEWS!! Senate Appropriations committee says NEO Surveyor should be fully funded in 2024!! 🎇🎉

While we wait for the House Appropriations bill, keep in mind that a Continuing Resolution would be TERRIBLE for NEO Surveyor, as it would keep in place the mission budget that was halved in 2023.

06/12/2023

First content-laden post is up: Support NASA's NEO Surveyor through this budgetary maelstrom!!

For those following the budgetary maelstrom unfolding in DC, allow me to offer a small spark of hope. In a small corner of the fiscal-year (FY) 2024 federal budget is nestled a humble $210 million …

05/31/2023

Hi all, I'm starting a new blog to capture thinking on existential risk, planetary defense, and nuclear weapons. First post is up!

But not at the beginning, if there is such a place. I see no way to properly introduce a sprawling and ever-evolving topic like the limits of our species’ endurance, nor to summarize my journey to …