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Engineering Notebook

Beating the fear of darkness

By Paul Marks

February/March 2025

A constellation of space-based solar power satellites in lunar orbit could, as soon as 2028, be ready to wirelessly power lunar landers and rovers through the grueling cold of the long lunar night. Paul Marks tells us about the progress to date.

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How the United States can keep leading in space

February/March 2025

Today’s U.S. space innovators and those to come deserve a regulatory framework that doesn’t crimp their agility and encourages them to stay in the country. Veteran commercial space advocate Courtney Stadd explains.

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R&D

Bringing home a piece of space history

By Cat Hofacker

January 10, 2025

Authors of a technical paper describe how Vanguard 1, the second U.S. satellite, could be retrieved, analyzed and displayed at one of the Smithsonian museums

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