I'm excited to release a report this morning titled 'Building an Enduring Advantage in the Third Space Age.' Key takeaway: the US has a significant lead in space, but to turn this temporary lead into an enduring advantage it needs to move quickly. 🧵
aei.org/research-produ…

My book Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative is officially published today!
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547369/…

NEWS for NDAA nerds: In a break with precedent, the House Armed Services Committee isn't planning to hold subcommittee markups this year.

Instead, they'll consider the subcommittee portions of the bill at the full markup May 22.

More here ($): plus.cq.com/doc/news-80051…

Good and Bad Ideas xkcd.com/2929

On this day 70 years ago, the Viet Minh defeated the French at Điện Biên Phủ, leading that year to the end of the war and the division of Vietnam along the 17th Parallel.

The battle is a particularly stark reminder of the importance of artillery, digging in, and logistics.

🌟🛰️ Otter Pup News! We have successfully completed an on-orbit rendezvous between Otter Pup and a D-Orbit ION spacecraft. On Friday, April 19th, Otter Pup pointed its cameras and captured images of ION within close proximity. Read more at: techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/sta…

Good overview of the growing interference with parts of the EM spectrum used by a variety of remote sensing satellites esa.int/Applications/O…

Space Force gets vote on IC Commercial Space Council breakingdefense.com/2024/05/space-…

U.S. Space Force taps commercial satellites to fill demand for global insights spacenews.com/u-s-space-forc…

Finnair cancels flights amid increased GNSS jamming - GPS World gpsworld.com/finnair-cancel…

The push towards very low orbititng satellites continues spacenews.com/sabresat-redwi…

Europe looks to end its launcher crisis thespacereview.com/article/4789/1

Interesting comparison of how the Navy and Air Force are approaching their budget challenges defensenews.com/global/the-ame…

Despite current Int’l Telecommunication Union rules on use of the electromagnetic spectrum, satellites sometimes suffer from interference – radio frequency interference, or RFI. This can mean loss of data, risk of damage to the satellite receiver and biased or uncertain measurements.

The animation…

Hale’s rule for space launches: when the weather is perfect something on the rocket breaks. Corollary: when the rocket is perfectly ready the weather will be bad.

Tracking of Chang'e 6 continues with day 4 of it's journey to the Moon starting here. As you can see there are no optical observations of CE6's journey as it's in the glare of the Sun.

Expecting arrival into lunar orbit around 2024-05-08T03:00 UTC.

ARCLab made it to the cover of MIT's Corridor newsletter!

Check out the write-up of the lab's work, featuring lab director Prof. Richard Linares, Dr. Miles Lifson, Dr. Thomas González Roberts, and PhD candidate Adriana Mitchell.

giving.mit.edu/planned-giving…

News: PRIVATEER Raises $56.5M Series A Round and Acquires @Orbital_Insight for an Undisclosed Amount
reuters.com/markets/deals/…