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Year in Review

The 2021 Year in Review

AeroPuzzler

The point of Lagrange points

December 2021

News

For-post ISS era, consensus remains elusive over whether market can support multiple private stations

By Cat Hofacker

November 17, 2021

NASA remains determined to catalyze a competitive market with seed money

News

U.S., Russia disagree about impact of satellite destruction

By Cat Hofacker

November 16, 2021

On the U.S. side, it’s “grossly irresponsible behavior,” but to Russia the fragments “do not pose any threat”

December 2021 Issue

December 2021 All Issues

Bulletin

December 2021 AIAA Bulletin

December 2021

Jahniverse

Advice for disheartened students

By Moriba Jah

December 2021

Editor's Notebook

A hard decision in a year of multiple aerospace breakthroughs

By Ben Iannotta

December 2021

AeroPuzzler

The point of Lagrange points

December 2021

Space Science

Decadal survey wants NASA to rethink how it designs space telescopes

By Cat Hofacker

November 4, 2021

Committee takes inspiration from proposed flagships, but does not select a design

News

AIAA Aviation: NASA aeronautics chief calls for increasing SAF production

By Cat Hofacker

August 5, 2021

Widespread availability of alternative fuels is “the biggest lever” to reducing carbon dioxide emissions

Human Spaceflight

Podcast: Biomedical research – the case for doing it in space

By Ben Iannotta

April 20, 2021

Smallsats

Falcon 9 boosts dozens of sats, including two that will test a new way of conducting business in space

By Cat Hofacker

June 30, 2021

Loft Orbital touts alternative to customized sats

Daredevils vs. entrepreneurs

By Ben Iannotta

From nuclear cop to space cop

By Moriba Jah

Discovering the interconnection between heaven and Earth

By Moriba Jah

Time to put the intelligence in AI

By Ben Iannotta

Covid-19 proves importance of resilience planning

Anti-covid leader

By Cat Hofacker

No-contact cleansing

By Cat Hofacker