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Alas, my father is in really bad shape right now, but (contra Hume) my mother and I are still holding out for a miracle. In his honor, below is the soundtrack of my father’s favorite movie, Andy Garcia’s “The Lost … Continue reading →

Here is a link to a photo of my father Don Francisco (far left) with his niece Vivian, my mother Oilda, and myself (far right).

I won’t be blogging today or tomorrow due to an illness in my family. (My father was operated on yesterday, so my mother and I will be in the hospital by his side.)

Apropos of my research on space junk, I wondered how the debris problem is solved in the fictional world of Star Trek; below are some helpful links: 5. YouTube: (see below)

Thus far this week (see here , here, and here), I have surveyed the newly-published space polices of Department of Defense and the U.S. Space Force, as well as a third report from the RAND Corporation, all of which call … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →