by Editor | Nov 19, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Notes: Two different items on the same underlying theme popped up on our radar recently. The first, an INSA proposal to designate space a critical U.S. infrastructure. The second an OpEd in SpaceNews by two highly respected...
by Editor | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: Improving the way we are organized to better focus on space is a good idea. But the real underlying threat to the nation is not that we are poorly organized. It’s that we critically depend on our space systems, and they are very...
by Editor | May 4, 2017 | Blog
Bill Calls for Protection of Critical Infrastructure, National Security Assets On the first of September 1859 the Earth was hit by a massive solar flare. It was so strong that currents induced in telegraph wires set offices afire. Later dubbed “the Carrington...
by Editor | Jan 1, 2014 | Blog
There were unexpected gifts for the navigation and timing community in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2014 signed by President Obama the day after Christmas. These were in the form of increased focus on the importance of space systems and their...