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Digression: RAND Report on Commercial Space Services
Previously (see here and here), I surveyed two new official public policy reports — one by the Department of Defense; the other by the Space Force — calling for U.S. military to procure some of the services and systems they … Continue reading
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Wikipedia Wednesday: Low Earth Orbit
According to Wikipedia (footnotes and links omitted), a low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of … Continue reading
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Low Earth orbit and the dog that did not bark
As I mentioned previously (see here and here), both the Department of Defense and the Space Force recently published new policies spelling out their current commercial outer space strategies. In summary, both of these jargon-laden reports identify a wide variety … Continue reading
Happy Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Day?!
Today, 22 April is Earth Day, an annual event (since 1970) commemorating our love of nature and the environment and our commitment to such public goods as clean air and clean water, but what about outer space, especially Low Earth … Continue reading
Philosopher Daniel Dennett has died
He was 82. See here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/philosopher-daniel-dennett-dead-at-82/ For me, Dennett’s most influential idea was his distinction between “skyhooks” and “cranes”: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p241101
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Space Markets: Three New Developments
I mentioned in my previous post that Professor Justin Evans and I are currently researching and writing a new “space markets” paper, which is tentatively titled “Space Auctions and the Tragedy of the Outer Space Commons“. Our new paper builds … Continue reading
What I am working on this spring/summer
My spring semester officially comes to a close on Monday, so looking ahead to the rest of spring as well as my summer break, I am happy to report that I will be working on three, possibly four, scholarly projects … Continue reading
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Wikipedia Wednesday: Bay of Pigs Invasion
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion On this day (April 17) in 1961, a brigade of 1,400 Cuban exiles (Brigade 2506) landed at the “Bay of Pigs” (Playa Girón) on the south coast of Cuba with the goal of removing Fidel Castro from power … Continue reading
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Insurrection Act Update
Should the Insurection Act be amended? Check out this report, which originally aired on the PBS News Hour last week (8 April 2024). Here is a summary: A bipartisan group of former senior officials are urging lawmakers on Capitol Hill … Continue reading
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