Sausages and Space Policy
Otto von Bismark famously remarked that if you like sausages and law, then don’t watch either of them being made. If he were alive today, he would... Read more →
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Crisis Planning for NASA
Clearly, this is not a good time for NASA. Worsening geopolitical tensions with Russia have influenced spaceflight more than most other forms of... Read more →
Small Satellites and Space Junk
CubeSats are flying into space at a fairly regular rate. These are simplistic structures based on a standard “cube” structure measuring 10... Read more →
Satellites in the Media
These images from Thai satellite Thaichote were thought to indicate possible debris from MH370. The public has received a crash course in how to... Read more →
Reputation Management in Space
The Keck Institute proposed a robotic asteroid capture mission concept. Will it fly? Historically speaking, the odds are low (Credits: Rick... Read more →
Ignorance Is No Joke
More than a quarter of adult Americans do not know that the Earth orbits the Sun. That’s the conclusion of a National Science Foundation survey... Read more →
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