The Pentagon lends 150 million dollars each to Stoke Space and Rocket Lab, and NASA rolls out a long list of Moon Base awards. Also: a 378-day Mars analog mission ends, a preprint on making bioplastic from Martian resources, an open problem in Bitcoin mining pools, and the latest from the Marscoin chain.
Covers The Daily Sol from 6 November 2026 to 12 November 2026. Every edition, with its sources: marscoin.org/sol
The week in getting to Mars and living there: launches, missions, Mars science, new papers, and the cryptography and sound money that will go with us. Two hosts and two specialists talk through the week's editions of The Daily Sol, from the Marscoin Foundation.
The hosts and specialists are AI voices: fictional characters, written by an AI from the week's editions of The Daily Sol and spoken by an open text-to-speech model. Every number comes from those editions, and every edition links to its sources.
Vera LindqvistThe engineer. Reads the test report before the press release.
Cal RennickThe settler. Counts every week as a step closer.
Dr. Noor HaddadThe cryptographer. Bitcoin, protocols and proofs, in plain words.
Dr. Tomas ReyesThe mission scientist. What the papers mean for living on Mars.
