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Date: June 22, 2015 at 2:10:00 PM CDT
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:
The ups and downs of smallsat constellations
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There is growing interest in developing constellations of smallsats for a variety of missions, with new concepts appearing regularly. Jeff Foust reports on some of the challenges these ventures face both in launching those satellites and dealing with orbital debris risks.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2776/1
Space deterrence: a response
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The issue of the role deterrence plays in protecting space assets has been the subject of debate in military policy circles. Roger G. Harrison and Deron R. Jackson respond to a recent essay here to defend their concept of a multi-layered approach to space deterrence.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2775/1
The myth of "what might have been" in space
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Many space advocates lament that the US did not act upon the plans for long-term space exploration proposed as Apollo achieved its lunar landing goal. Alastair Browne argues that there's little need to regret that path not taken, since the nation would not have traveled far down it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2774/1
Review: The Ordinary Spaceman
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Astronauts comprise an elite group, and it's hard to think of any of them as ordinary. Jeff Foust reviews a book by a self-described "ordinary" astronaut whose details about life as an astronaut, in space and on Earth, are far from ordinary.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2773/1
If you missed it, here's what we published in our previous issue:
Deep in space, corner of No and Where
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In a month, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past the dwarf planet Pluto, the first spacecraft to visit this distant world. Dwayne Day ponders the effect the spacecraft flyby will have not just on science, but culture and policy as well.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2772/1
The commercial crew crunch
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While NASA has argued it needs full funding for its commercial crew program to keep it on schedule for first flights in 2017, House and Senate appropriations bills cut the request by hundreds of millions of dollars. Jeff Foust reports on the disconnect and its implications for the agency and the two companies under contract.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2771/1
Legal implications of an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence
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In the event that humans detect a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, or the more unlikely event of a physical encounter with them, how would the legal system be prepared to deal with repercussions? Babak Shakouri Hassanabadi discusses how existing treaties and interpretations of international law might apply in such scenarios.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2770/1
Review: Operation Paperclip
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Many of the German engineers who were at the core of America's early space program came over after World War II in an effort called Operation Paperclip. Michael Neufeld reviews a book that offers a dramatic, but flawed, history of that program.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2769/1
We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as
any other questions, comments, or suggestions about The Space Review.
We're also actively soliciting articles to publish in future issues, so
if you have an article or article idea that you think would be of
interest, please email me.
Until next week,
Jeff Foust
Editor, The Space Review
jeff@thespacereview.com
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