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



A mission to Pluto enters the home stretch
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It's been more than eight and a half years since New Horizons lifted off, but the spacecraft is now less than a year away from its long-awaited flyby of Pluto. Jeff Foust reports on a milestone the mission achieved last week, and the expectations the science team has for the upcoming encounter.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2590/1

Deflecting near Earth asteroids with paint
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When the concept of deflecting threatening asteroids comes to mind, it's usually associated with visions of using impactors, or other kinds of weapons, to shove the object off course. Shen Ge describes an ongoing effort to study a far more subtle technique for deflecting hazardous objects.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2589/1

Complications of the legal definition of "launching state"
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A key tenet of international space law is the concept of the "launching state," the nation or nations responsible for a particular launch. Babak Shakouri Hassanabadi examines some complications that the original definitions of the term create as more nations and non-state entities become involved in spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2588/1

Review: Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce
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While NASA experiments with the use of public-private partnerships to support the development of space capabilities, such partnerships are hardly novel in general. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines analogies to other such partnerships from American history and the lessons they offer for spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2587/1


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


The Grand Tour finale: Neptune
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This week marks the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune, completing the initial reconnaissance of the solar system's four large planets. Andrew LePage recounts the development of the "Grand Tour" that was topped off by the Neptune encounter.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2586/1

The unsettled launch industry
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Since the early 2000s, the commercial launch industry had been dominated by three companies. Now, Jeff Foust reports, those companies are facing serious challenges from new entrants, who themselves are dealing with issues of their own.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2585/1

Orbital manoeuvres in the dark: Apollo 11's UFO
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A new biography of Neil Armstrong offers an answer to a question raised by the Apollo 11 mission: what was the flashing light astronauts reported seeing trailing their spacecraft on the way to the Moon? Dwayne Day examines if that answer makes sense.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2584/1

The downhill slide of NASA's "rocket to nowhere"
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A GAO report last month argued that NASA's Space Launch System faces serious cost and schedule risks. Rick Boozer argues that this is the latest sign that the heavy-lift rocket is doomed.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2583/1

An outer space solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict
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This week, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to meet in an effort to resolve the crisis between those two nations. Vid Beldavs suggests that the two nations should set aside their differences and work with the EU and others on major space projects instead.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2582/1


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Until next week,

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