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by Waterluvian 401 days ago
Up there is also “Spacr” or “Spacely”. Then next is naming your company after some famous scientist or engineer. Then adding X to it. Then naming it a division of an existing company. Then naming it after a living person. Then naming it something new.

I think the most creative name would likely just be a UUID.

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Astro/astral/astra seems to be the most overused prefix in the space industry, to the point you really struggle to distinguish between entities

Cf the propulsion startup ThrustMe

Seriously, I wish each company would use a UUID as an alternate name. Same for each programming language, software project, and so on. The UUID should be on all their web pages.

People who write articles or blogs about them should use the normal name but somewhere should have a table giving the UUIDs of the things they mention.

Then when people are trying to find pages about things with names that are terrible for searching like X or Go they could use the UUID.

This is approximately a description of the GNS pet name system. Also DOIs for scientific articles.
A UUID wouldn't be creative, well, except for the very first time.

Sure, they are all unique. But also very high entropy.

Don't forget Spacey McSpaceface.