April 5, 2019: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Micah Zenko on the Dangers of the US Threat-Industrial Complex Why is this non-space article/interview at the top of the list? It’s because this is ALWAYS happening with U.S. space news. Mr. Zenko’s article highlights at the end of this interview just how non-critical journalism is about many of the stories put out. With some […]

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 […]

July 13, 2018: Weekly Spatial Resolutions

Aerospace startup Rocket Lab says it’s going to build a second launch site in the US Soon the company will be known for building launch pads, instead of launching rockets from them. I understand caution, but Rocket Lab is nearing the Virgin Galactic approach for launching things. I am also confused by this. One of […]

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 […]

Turning to Fiber to Move the Competition Along

In the last post (here), I wrote a few guesses about who might want to pay for something like SpaceX’s Starlink or O3b’s broadband constellations. The upshot of that whole exercise was to find out that perhaps the world’s poor probably won’t be the funders of these constellations. Even if these constellations might be cheap. […]