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- NASA has funded a bunch of early stage technologies https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-05-24-Issue-219/ 28 comments
- SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-10-05-Issue-188/ 162 comments
- DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-05-25-Issue-170/ 104 comments
- The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-07-07-Issue-124/#a-first-on-orbit-fuel-depot-has-been-deployed 51 comments
- Visualize Starlink's current coverage with active TLEs http://orbitalindex.com/feature/starlink-coverage/ 2 comments
- Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days? https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-08-19-Issue-78/#magnetoplasma-to-mars-in-39-days 88 comments
- Four Mars missions are launching next year https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-06-11-archive-Issue-16/ 70 comments
- Show HN: Orbital Index, a brief/technical/curated newsletter https://orbitalindex.com 2 comments
- Show HN: Orbital Index https://orbitalindex.com/ 3 comments
- The successor to JWST has a (working) title https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-02-01-Issue-204/#the-successor-to-jwst-has-a-working-title 4 comments space
- China's sprawling lunar plans would see a hopping robot sent to the Moon in 2028, Taikonauts on the surface before 2030, a research base built from 2030-2035, and the Starship-inspired Mars-class CZ-9 super heavy lift vehicle launch by 2035 https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-12-07-Issue-197/#chinese-moon-ambitions-become-clearer 58 comments space
- MOXIE has now produced 6g/hr ISRU oxygen during multiple martian seasons https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-11-02-Issue-192/#short-papers 10 comments space
- Do the Beta Taurids hold more Tunguska-scale impactors? https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-10-26-Issue-191/#do-the-beta-taurids-hold-more-tunguska-scale-impactors 3 comments space
- NASA’s Lucy swings by the Earth for the first of three times, just skimming the atmosphere to steal momentum on her way to Jupiter https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-10-19-Issue-190/ 17 comments space
- All about Rocket Lab's upcoming private Venus mission https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-09-28-Issue-187/#rocket-lab-s-venus-mission 3 comments space
- A Mars sample return race https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-07-06-Issue-175/#a-mars-sample-return-race 2 comments space
- Could we be a Type I Civilization by 2371? https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-06-22-Issue-173/#type-i-civilization-by-2371 63 comments space
- LISA continues development https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-06-15-Issue-172/#lisa-continues-development 2 comments space
- DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-05-25-Issue-170/#darpa-moving-forward-with-draco-nuclear-thermal-engine 11 comments space
- Are you ready for the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2024? https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-04-20-Issue-165/#the-great-solar-eclipse-of-2024 370 comments space
- Another round of fantastical NASA NIAC awards https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-03-16-Issue-160/#another-round-of-niac-awards 2 comments space
- The aerospace impacts of the Russian invasion https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-03-02-Issue-158/#ukraine 2 comments space
- The first rocket *from* Mars https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-02-23-Issue-157/#the-first-rocket-from-mars 3 comments space
- Dozens of rovers are heading to the Moon https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-02-16-Issue-156/#the-upcoming-bevy-of-lunar-rovers 43 comments space
- NASA's next, next telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will detect 100,000 transiting exoplanets through how their gravity distorts light https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-01-12-Issue-151/#the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope 39 comments space
- 2022 may have 9 Moon missions, 6 Falcon Heavy launches, 5 deep space missions, & up to *37* maiden flights. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-01-05-Issue-150/#what-to-expect-in-2022 22 comments space
- Spin it up https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-11-17-Issue-143/#spin-it-up 2 comments space
- Where will we point the largest space telescope ever built? https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-11-03-Issue-141/#where-will-we-point-the-largest-space-telescope-ever-built 3 comments space
- Blue Origin's gambling was risky business https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-10-06-issue-137/#gambling-is-risky-business 3 comments space
- Who owns space debris anyway? https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-09-22-issue-135/#who-owns-space-debris-anyway 11 comments space
- Why fixed-price aerospace contracts are so important https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-09-08-issue-133/#why-fixed-price-contracts-are-so-important 10 comments space
- The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-07-07-Issue-124/#a-first-on-orbit-fuel-depot-has-been-deployed 4 comments space
- Let's make spacecraft that sail on solar protons instead of photons https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-06-30-Issue-123/#sailing-on-solar-protons 5 comments space
- China launches a space station tomorrow https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-04-28-issue-114/#china-s-space-station 9 comments space
- When radiation causes Ingenuity's non-rad-hard processor to crash, it restarts in real time before falling out of the sky. https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2021-02-24-issue-105/#ingenuity 8 comments space
- Show Reddit: The Orbital Index, a weekly newsletter about the space industry that I've now written for 84 weeks http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-09-30-issue-84/ 4 comments space
- DARPA is developing Nuclear Thermal Propulsion http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-07-15-issue-73/ 7 comments space
- Is the Moon a Stepping Stone or a Cornerstone for human exploration? http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-02-27-issue-53/ 21 comments space
- How to get involved with the space industry http://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-12-10-issue-42/ 4 comments space
- The Orbital Index, a newsletter about the space industry https://orbitalindex.com 5 comments space
Linking pages
- Huginn: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted IFTTT - DZone Web Dev https://dzone.com/articles/huginn-an-open-source-self-hosted-ifttt 52 comments
- Issue No. 37 | The Orbital Index https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-11-05-Issue-37/ 39 comments
- GitHub - orbitalindex/awesome-space: 🛰️🚀A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space 5 comments
- Issue No. 164 | The Orbital Index https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-04-13-Issue-164/ 3 comments
- Moon Monday #78: NASA’s Lunar-Mars vision, forward planning Artemis I, and more lunar updates https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-78 0 comments
- Moon Monday #81: Lunar missions on the verge of launching and future hardware coming to life https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-81#%C2%A7future-moon-mission-hardware-coming-to-life 0 comments
- The Future is Old News: An Interview with Fred Scharmen on the History of Space Settlements — Scope of Work https://theprepared.org/features-feed/space-forces 0 comments
- Anthology of Dorkness - by Steve Lord https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/anthology-of-dorkness 0 comments
- Moon Monday #130: Artemis III science, some Starship specifics, mission updates, and more https://blog.jatan.space/p/moon-monday-issue-130 0 comments
- Issue No. 222 | The Orbital Index https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-06-14-Issue-222/ 0 comments