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



Space, luxury or necessity: situations and prospects for France after the Livre Blanc and Operation Serval
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The United States is not the only country to realize the transformative role space-based assets can play in military operations. Guilhem Penent discusses how use of space-based reconnaissance, telecommunications, and other capabilities is changing French military operations and doctrine.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2340/1

The Silicon Valley of space could be Silicon Valley
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As entrepreneurial space ventures have spring up in places like Mojave and Seattle, one region largely associated with high-tech startups has been on the sidelines. Jeff Foust describes how that is changing, as smallsat and other space companies get started in Silicon Valley.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2339/1

Talk of an icy moon at Vegas for Nerds
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The new movie "Europa Report" was the subject of a panel at Comic Con earlier this month, featuring some of the key people involved with the movie. Dwayne Day reports on the panel discussion, including the role science played in shaping the sci-fi film.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2338/1

Review: The Pioneer Detectives
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Could the mysterious slowing of the Pioneer spacecraft as they exited the solar system be proof of exotic new physics, or simply an unforeseen aspect of their design? Jeff Foust reviews an ebook that describes this mystery and its outcome.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2337/1


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


Seeing the shuttles, two years after wheels stop
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Sunday marked the second anniversary of the landing of Atlantis on the final Space Shuttle mission. Jeff Foust examines Atlantis's new home at the Kennedy Space Center as well as the reopening of the shuttle Enterprise exhibit in New York.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2336/1

Space control in the Air Force's 2014 budget request
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Comments made by a senior Defense Department official in May led some to speculate that the military had started a new antisatellite weapons program. Victoria Samson examines the military's 2014 budget request and finds no evidence of such an effort.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2335/1

Let's all go to Space Camp!
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The 1986 film "Space Camp", about a group of teenagers accidentally launched into space, is one of the highlights of an earlier, more optimistic era about spaceflight. Dwayne Day checks out a new film that is, at best, an unappealing remake of that earlier movie.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2334/1

Review: The X-15 Rocket Plane
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The X-15 remains one of the most fascinating aerospace programs, setting speed and altitude records that in some cases still stand today. Anthony Young reviews a book that offers a history of the program from the perspective of those who flew and worked on this rocketplane.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2333/1


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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