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Category: Interesting articles

February 22, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

American Enterprise Will Beat China in Outer Space I tend to subscribe to this premise. Not just for China, but for the United States in the space industry generally. This is not to say our system is perfect. But by soliciting for and sponsoring new companies through contracts, NASA, with a paltry budget, fostered SpaceX’s […]

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February 15, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Australia: well placed to join the Moon mining race … or is it? The article talks about the reasons why Australia might want to mine the Moon. Even though the country does not have its own launch vehicles, launch pads, or other sorts of infrastructure useful to spacefaring nations. Not saying that Australia shouldn’t try, […]

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February 8, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Kepler’s Final Image Reveals A Galaxy Full Of Possibilities The old planet-hunting satellite has been retired for a few months, but the imagery it collected remains for scientists and researchers to dig through. The last image the satellite took is posted on the site in the link above. It helped people discover a few more […]

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February 1, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

CIA And Skunk Works Secretly Planned To Turn The A-12 Spy Plane Into A Space Launch Mothership An A-12 airplane, one that preceded and likely inspired the SR-71, was studied a long time ago to see if it would be a great way to launch rockets into orbit. The answer in the article is that […]

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January 25, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Is Mark Zuckerberg The Next Elon Musk? Facebook Reveals Space Plans Is the writer of this article even familiar with Musk’s activities? The evidence, based on the article’s title, points to “no.” Or perhaps the editor is to blame? Let’s clear up something within the article–this quote: “History and current trends suggest that tech companies […]

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