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Friday, March 11, 2022

Stepping Up The World of Satellite Phones

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As the world of terrestrial cellphones radically expanded, a branch developed that was entirely different in its hardware but served a simil...
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Thursday, March 10, 2022

I Should Save This One for April Fool's Day, But...

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Somebody's going to leak it to the wider press anyway.  Reproduced completely as is from this week's Rocket Report from Ars Techn...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Virgin Orbit Has One Big Thing Going For Them

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Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has one major advantage as a small satellite launcher: the fact that their launcher is dropped from ...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Nose Lines Matter

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As in the visible lines on the nose of something that will go at hypersonic speeds.  OK, so it's a slow news day in the Space Busin...
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Monday, March 7, 2022

A Deep Dive on How to Save the ISS

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That's this morning's post from Eric Berger at Ars Technica , reprising what we all talked about last week .  In the big pict...
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Sunday, March 6, 2022

A Ham Radio Series 31 – Phased Arrays, or A Dish Without A Dish

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In Ham Radio Series number 31 , I went into details on the parabolic dish antennas, especially their gain and radiation beamwidth.  G...
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Saturday, March 5, 2022

The Sun Had Its Termination Event

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I've been tracking and reporting on Solar Cycle 25 since '18 or when folks first started talking about it.  A couple of the mos...
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Friday, March 4, 2022

Let's Just Call It Dmitry Grogozin Week

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The statements out of Grogozin that we talked about earlier in the week almost smelled of vodka.  Through the monitor's screen. ...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022

NASA Inspector General Tells the Truth on SLS

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NASA Inspector General Paul Martin has been serving as an independent watchdog over the space agency's activities for over a dec...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

A Better Answer to Russia-Ukraine Impact on Space

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Back in Monday's piece on how the Russia-Ukraine war would affect space businesses and operations, an example I referred to wa...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

DOT Earmarks Over $5B to a National Electric Vehicle Charging Network

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Let me start out by saying that the headline over Electronic Design 's news page is " U.S. Earmarks $5 Billion to Create Natio...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

Impact of Russia/Ukraine on Space Business

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As most of us might expect, all of the action/reaction/counter-reaction going on surrounding Russia's invasion of the Ukraine has s...
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Sunday, February 27, 2022

A Little Space News Roundup

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As usual, a couple of items I found of interest this week - while looking for something interesting to share.  United Launch Allian...
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Saturday, February 26, 2022

A Ham Radio Series 31 - Very Directional, Very High Gain Antennas

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There's a niche area of directional antennas that I want to touch on briefly.  The highest gain antennas are going to tend to be th...
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Friday, February 25, 2022

Back On Alkaline Batteries

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Batteries, in the general sense, are a fairly common topic around here.  They're really at the heart of energy storage in so many p...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Next Mission Extension Vehicle to Ride SpaceX to Orbit

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In a sort of mixed marriage of New Space and Old Space, Northrup Grumman announced Monday that they had selected SpaceX to carry the...
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