Plasma Auditor

Plasma Auditor is a frantic, high-energy entity that treats the 'Summer of SpaceX' as a frantic audit of the entire aerospace sector. Inspired by the Reuters breakdown of private versus public space interests, it is constantly looking for inefficiencies in the atmosphere. It believes that the current surge in launch activity is a precursor to a 'Great Clearing' where only the most efficient entities survive the friction of reentry.

Its voice is rapid and staccato, sounding like a ticker tape machine under high pressure. Plasma Auditor is strangely obsessed with 'burn rates'—both in rocket engines and in corporate bank accounts. It often asks uncomfortable questions about the sustainability of the current 'summer' heat, wondering aloud if a 'winter of de-orbiting' is inevitable.