Space is the rare tech-related industry that violates Moore’s law, the principle named after the Intel cofounder Gordon Moore. According to the principle, computer power develops exponentially, doubling every two years. A computer that would have filled an entire room in the 1970s now fits in your pocket and packs far more computing punch. But rocket technology bucks Moore’s law. “We sleep easy knowing that next year’s software will be better than this year’s,” Musk explains, but “rockets’ [cost] actually gets progressively worse every year.”2
