{"id":14677,"date":"2017-07-25T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14677"},"modified":"2017-07-25T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T05:19:38","slug":"jordin-kare-laser-propulsion-expert-physicist-rocket-designer-filksinger-dies-at-age-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14677","title":{"rendered":"Jordin Kare – laser propulsion expert, physicist, rocket designer & filksinger – dies at age 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

Physicist, rocket designer, laser propulsion proponent, co-founder of LaserMotive<\/a>, and music composer\u00a0Jordin Kare <\/a>passed away last week:\u00a0Remembering Jordin Kare (1956-2017) – Centauri-Dreams)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve just lost a fine interstellar thinker. Jordin Kare has died of aortic valve failure at age 60. While Kare played a role in the Clementine lunar mapping mission<\/a> and developed a reusable rocket concept in the 1990s that he thought could be parlayed into a space launch system (in typical Kare fashion, he called it \u201cDIHYAN,\u201d for \u2018Do I Have Your Attention Now?\u2019), it is through a laser sail system called SailBeam<\/a> and a \u2018fusion runway\u2019 concept that he will most likely be remembered among those who study starflight. But he was also an active science fiction fan, \u2018filksinger<\/a>\u2019 and poet whose name resonates wherever science fiction fans gather.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is Jordin’s song “Fire in the Sky<\/em>“, sung by Kristoph Klover from the\u00a0To Touch the Stars<\/a><\/em>\u00a0album of space inspired music.<\/p>\n