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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


The Lion and the Vortex
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During the Falklands War, the United States offered assistance, often covertly, to Great Britain. Dwayne Day reports on newly-declassified documents that reveal that this assistance included access to a newly-launched signals intelligence satellite.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2258/1

Community, lenses, and learning: the "Columbia+10" workshop
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Last week a forum in Washington looked back at the Columbia accident and the lessons learned from it. Mary Lynne Dittmar offers her perspective on the cathartic nature of the event and the insights it offered on the past and future of spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2257/1

Launch failures: what's changed?
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Space launch can, by its nature, be very unforgiving to even the smallest changes. Wayne Eleazer recounts how, in several cases, seemingly innocuous, minor changes resulted in unfortunate outcomes for missions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2256/1

Addressing the challenges of space debris, part 3: policy
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While dealing with space debris requires overcoming a number of technical obstacles, the political ones may be even greater. Michael Listner completes his assessment of the challenges of cleaning up space debris by offering a potential solution to some of the policy challenges associated with this effort.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2255/1

Review: Red Rover
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As the science results from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity pour in, it's easy to forget that the instrument that make that science possible can be as challenging to develop as the spacecraft itself. Jeff Foust reviews a book by the principal investigator of one of Curiosity's instruments, who tells the inside story of the development of that instrument and work on other missions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2254/1


If you missed it, here's what we published in our previous issue:


A Martian adventure for inspiration, not commercialization
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Last week, a new organization founded by a pioneering space tourist announced plans for a crewed Mars flyby mission to launch in 2018. Jeff Foust describes the background of the mission and the various challenges to turn this unique concept into an actual voyage.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2253/1

Taking a page from maritime practice to self-regulate the commercial space industry
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Regulating the safety of the emerging commercial spaceflight industry poses challenges given the lack of experience and concerns about government overregulation. Three authors suggest that one approach is to take a page from the maritime industry and establish organizations that can perform a type of self-regulation.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2252/1

China's ASAT enigma
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China attracted the world's attention in 2007 with a test of a anti-satellite weapon that created thousands of pieces of debris. Dwayne Day reports on a recent forum that describes the challenges in knowing what China is doing today with ASATs, and why.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2251/1

The future of the US human spaceflight program is not reliving its past
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Civil space policy, in particular human spaceflight, was not an issue in last year's presidential election. Roger Handberg argues that space advocates must stop believing that the president restore the agency to the glory years of the 1960s but instead focus on what's needed to create a more sustainable program for the future.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2250/1

The Last Pictures: Contemporary pessimism and hope for the future (part 3)
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In the final installment of his examination of a unique artifact included on a recently launched commercial satellite, Larry Klaes ponders just how long that artifact might last in Earth orbit, and the significance of its message.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2249/1


We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as
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We're also actively soliciting articles to publish in future issues, so
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Until next week,

Jeff Foust
Editor, The Space Review
jeff@thespacereview.com
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