Technology Quarterly | Remaking the sky
A sudden light
New capabilities, new entrepreneurialism and rekindled dreams are making space exciting again, says Oliver Morton
SHORTLY after sunset there had been juddering green stabs of lightning to the south, but by a quarter to one in the morning there is nothing in the warm, wet July air over Cape Canaveral but a thin patchwork of moonlit cloud. And then, precisely at the time it was meant to happen, there is a sudden light on the horizon, some 18km away. A light that rises.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “A sudden light”
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