December 21, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

NORAD Tracks Santa In a little over two days, NORAD will be showing the movements of Santa Claus as he drops gifts or coal to deserving children (and maybe adults). Not to imply NORAD isn’t watching others in the world to see if they’re naughty or nice–I’m sure that’s still happening. But this is the […]

December 14, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

The problems with small satellites – and what Australia’s Space Agency can do to help I’m still having difficulty not linking the increase of interest in space in Australia with the launch activities happening in New Zealand. It almost seems as if the nation woke up once the Kiwis started hosting U.S. small satellite launch […]

December 7, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Coast Guard Cadets Will Get Closer to Space With Satellites Small satellites allow people to experiment with space projects and become familiar with rudimentary space operations without a lot of the extreme costs associated with larger satellites. There is at least one high school out there, quite a few universities, and many, many nations on […]

November 30, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

This site contains my opinions and ideas only, not the opinions or ideas of any organization I work for. It’s my idea playground, and I’m inviting you in. Welcome! Lego Space Construction Book I’ll admit, the book isn’t out yet. It’s also not a book about building “realistic” spaceships, astronauts, and rovers. But the book […]

November 16, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Russia says it’s going to beat Elon Musk and SpaceX’s ‘old tech’ with a nuclear rocket Just one potential Russian broken dream of many. Several plans have been laid out by Russian space companies for “taking back” space leadership. In this case, noting SpaceX’s successful use of existing technologies to have its rockets do what […]