March 22, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Can the U.S. Save Alcantara, Brazil’s Cursed Spaceport? Everyone KNOWS the best, most thoughtful articles begin with a question. At least that’s what Popular Mechanics thinks. To answer the question, though: probably. Should the U.S. do so? No. Even if a certain orangutan in an ill-fitting suit gives its blessing for U.S. companies to do […]

July 6, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

China Looks to Build New Powerful Rocket and Leave NASA in Its Exhaust Plans for rockets in China are the same as plans for rockets in the United States–just plans. But this article is strange, because it seems to focus on NASA’s plans, which are continuously shifting further into the future than originally planned. China […]

June 15, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Frickin’ Lasers!! In Space! Anatoly Zak is normally the feller I associate with Russianspaceweb.com. It’s a really great site that goes into extreme detail about Russia’s rockets, satellites, and space programs. But he goes to the eleven with this latest article he manged to get on Popular Mechanics. The Soviets designed a laser gun for […]

June 1, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

UFO Crash In China Explained: It Really Did Come From Space This is why the U.S. launches rockets near the oceans–rocket bodies just don’t fall on land unless something goes terribly wrong. Unless you’re SpaceX–then you just fly your first stage back for a safe landing. But even then, the company launches from pads next […]

May 25, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has invited Australia’s new space agency to help it reach the moon Since Blue Origin is used to testing rockets in godforsaken places, the Australian Outback is probably a logical place for the company’s considerations in plans to launch rockets. I don’t know if Australians should be excited, because “space tourism” […]