It is interesting to see the tenders (openly available on the web). 3.5M for design. 77M for delivery 😢

Agree it isn't written as well as most of his pieces. None the less the communication by the science community has been quite ineffective relative to NewsCorpse and Oil lobby....unsurprisingly . There have been some notable exceptions but they can't be everywhere vs Mirdoch empire

There have also been some companies making overblown claims about info from global navigation satellite systems (aka GPS). They are very useful, but can't do everything. Wondering if someone might decide that they are all we need and insist only Starlink will be used..for a significant fee.

And future of Joint Centre for Satellite Data Centre (and therefore JEDI) is now rather uncertain :-(

And there are some disturbing examples elsewhere as to what happens when this work is contracted out to various consultancies

AJ is much better at 1.25 or 1.5x . Can remember the start of some his sentences when he finishes!
Intrigued by constant references to sustainability funding to include support for models.