Christopher Kalitin Blog
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Techno-Economics
Jun 20 2026
Battery Storage For Hydro Dominated Grids
Jun 13 2026
Optimize For The End State
Apr 7 2026
The Path To 1 ¢/kWh Solar Costs for Terraform Industries
Apr 5 2026
What Commodity Prices Are Required For Terraform Industries To Be Competitive?
Mar 23 2026
Terraform Industries Electrolyzer Economics Modelling
May 3 2025
Jevons Paradox is Just a Subset of the Principle Behind Learning Rate
Apr 30 2025
Useful Intermediary Steps Are Fundamental To Startups And Large Novel Projects
Nov 19 2024
S-Curves Allow You to Predict the Future
Space Industry Analysis
Jun 28 2026
You Must Model Reflect Orbital In The End State
Dec 26 2025
Falcon 9 Launch Cadence Is Asymptotically Approaching A Limit
Jul 11 2025
Most Profilic Space Station Modules
Jul 8 2025
Can Canada Support a Sovereign Space Industry?
Jun 8 2025
Planet Labs Charts That Describe Their History
Jun 8 2025
Space Industry Charts
Jan 15 2025
Fun Charts That Visualize The History of Communicatons Satellites
Jan 12 2025
A New Paradigm of Launch Vehicle Architecture Design Tradeoffs
Jan 9 2025
Estimating Cost per Mbps of Communication Satellites Over Time
Aug 12 2024
Extrapolating Demand and Competition for the 1-ton Rocket Class
Jul 16 2024
Visualizing Small Sat Constellation Tradeoffs with Charts
Jul 4 2024
Small Sat Constellations: The line between Electron and Rideshare
Apr 9 2024
What SpaceX's Bandwagon Missions Mean for Small Rockets
Feb 26 2024
Stoke's Nova is a Perfectly Sized Rocket
Feb 16 2024
Comparing Demand for Firefly's Alpha vs. Electron
Feb 10 2024
Analysing the Dedicated Small Sat Launch Market
Jan 7 2024
Analysing Neutron in the Commerical Satellite Launch Market
Projects
Mar 11 2026
Insights From Designing The Battery's High Voltage Controller
Feb 9 2026
2nd Year Circuit Analysis Being Useful
Jan 29 2026
Modelling dV Savings Of Super Synchronous Transfer Orbits
Nov 19 2025
Rewiring a 240V Kiln and Producing Calcium Oxide
Oct 5 2025
Analog Battery Management System
Sep 14 2025
I Made A Reflow Oven
Aug 11 2025
What's An Optimal Lunar Atmospheric Pressure For Reentry Vehicles?
Jul 29 2025
Rewriting My Mars Entry Simulation Using Polar Coordinates
Jul 18 2025
Learning About Motor FETs and Hall Effect Sensors Live at FSGP 2025
May 29 2025
Portfolio / Resume
May 13 2025
Modelling Mars’ Atmosphere for Simulating Blunt Body Entry Vehicles
Mar 26 2025
What Is the RCC_CSR Register in STM32 Microcontrollers?
Dec 29 2024
Using SCPI and PyVISA to Automatically Collect Data for ADC Characterization
Dec 27 2024
Characterizing the ESP32's ADC
Dec 25 2024
Quintuple Simultaneous Booster Landings with kOS
Jul 24 2024
How to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster with kOS
Ideas
May 25 2026
V2 Rocket Combat Effectiveness - Reading Walter Dornberger's Account
Oct 13 2025
Optimize For Exceptionally Competent Small Teams
Sep 29 2025
It Must Be Beautiful
Jul 28 2025
First Principles Thinking Expressed As Distillation Into a Latent Space
Jun 16 2025
All Mistakes On UBC Solar Were Due To People
Jun 2 2025
Deriving the Impulse Labs Master Plan
Apr 26 2025
Being a University Student has Extremely Low Leverage
Oct 21 2024
Why You Should Accumulate Capital
Oct 11 2023
You Will Get 80 Trillion Dollars If You Read This Closely
Oct 1 2023
NASA's fucked - Here's my vision
Vibes
Apr 24 2026
The Best Students Stopped Trusting Their School Teachers
Sep 27 2025
You Can Do Everything
Sep 15 2024
How to Teach Engineering
May 25 2024
On the Overallocation of Labour to Finance and Law
Jan 1 2024
Patriotism is a Requirement
Dec 17 2023
Only Make Bets You Can Win
Oct 21 2023
Art Is Dead?
Oct 17 2023
Waste Your Vote! Do What's Funniest!
Sep 22 2023
Applying the Law of Accelerating Returns
Drafts
Jan 26 2026
More Lessons From Observing The Leadership of UBC Solar
Sep 13 2025
Constantly Do Root Cause Analysis
Sep 8 2025
Investment Analysis of Redwire (RDW)
Sep 8 2025
What Does Redwire Actually Do?
Aug 1 2025
Analysing Energy Substrates Through Conversion Efficiencies And Embodied Energies
Jul 9 2025
What I Learned From Other Teams At FSGP 2025
Jul 7 2025
DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT Everything That Went Wrong For UBC Solar At FSGP 2025
Jun 11 2025
Highest Leverage Work Over Time
May 13 2025
Modelling Terminal Velocity Vs. Ballistic Coefficient For Blunt Body Mars Entry Vehicles
Jun 25 1990
Stoke Nova Cost Model - Will it Survive?
Jul 20 1969
The Bare Minimum Engineer
Apr 12 1961
The Transition to EV Robotaxis
Feb 8 1925
The End State of NASA
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