📢 (1/3) A quick announcement 😊 !

I decided to move servers with this #diningcar account from the big instance "mastodon.social" to "rail.chat".

I did this because, I think the re-centralization is bad. As people join #Mastodon, there’s a natural tendency to join over-sized servers that don’t fit well with the original design of Mastodon and can lead to problems.

This account is a railway-enthusiastic account. I share pictures from trips with dining cars (mainly from Europe, where I live!)

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📢 (2/3) I decided to switch to rail.chat for the following reasons:

1. It's an English🇺🇸 🇬🇧 -speaking instance and I toot mostly in English (often with many mistakes as it isn't my 1st language [which is German🇩🇪 ]), allthough I'm living in #Europe, #Austria🇦🇹 , #Vienna

2. A user of this instance, @andreaswiedenhoff highly recommended joining this instance, which was convincing 👍 !

📆 October 18, 2023 Steve Jurvetson, an early investor in #SpaceX and #Planet, claimed that many #investors* in #startups working on small #LaunchVehicles were unaware of the scope of competition, many thinking there were no more than 10 other companies in the field. https://spacenews.com/small-launch-companies-struggle-to-complete-with-spacex-rideshare-missions/

#LaunchVehicle 🚀 manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies#Launch_vehicle_manufacturers

4️⃣4️⃣ #aerospace companies producing #rockets 🚀 in #OpenStreetMap 🗺️ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/aerospace%3Aproduct=rocket

Cargo 📦 Transportation & Landers https://www.factoriesinspace.com/cargo-transportation

* 📊 422 investors invested $8 billion 💰 in 123 start-up #SpaceCompanies in 📆 2022 https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/Bryce_Start_Up_Space_2023.pdf

#SpaceCompany#SpaceMarket

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#Space 🌌 is undergoing a revolution* comparable with the growth of the #internet 🌐 20 years ago, and like the internet, this will affect all domains of life.

Our society is now utterly dependent on the #satellites 🛰️ that orbit #Earth. The #communications 📶 and #navigation 🧭 services that they make possible are so interwoven in our everyday lives that in the #UK 🇬🇧, #space is classed as one of 13 critical national #infrastructure sectors. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/26/europe-moon-space-race-esa-india-russia-china-japan

* Report of the High-Level Advisory Group on Human and #Robotic#SpaceExploration for #Europe 🇪🇺 https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corporate/h-lag_brochure.pdf

#ESA#SpaceRace