A little over two years ago, China conducted the now notorious direct ascent ASAT shot on the Fengyun-1 satellite which was in a polar orbit. We’ve commented extensively at the time and a year hence on the issues raised by this shot. So where do we stand just past the second anniversary? Well, like rabbits, [...] [...]
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Some interesting end-of-year numbers from www.pingdom.com: Email 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008. 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam. 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam). Internet users 1,463,632,361 [...] [...] Best wishes for a safe New Year’s eve and a bright, prosperous year to come… And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere ! And gie’s a hand o’ thine ! And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught, For auld lang syne. For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne, We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness [...] [...] …And it is an interesting read, informing the potential rationale behind some recent decisions, such as the Navy stepping away from the DDG-1000: Future Challenges Risk An underlying assumption in our understanding of the strategic environment is that the predominant near-term challenges to the United States will come from state and non-state actors using irregular [...] [...] Eighty feet & 7 inches wingtip to wingtip; 700 sqft of wing surface; Controls linked by a conglomerate of torque-tubes, hydraulics and cables (old school fly-by wire) and a propensity for interesting excursions in the “burble” which can manifest at the ramp: So Nose – how would you grade it? Oh, and don’t forget the [...] [...] Memo to the Strategic Communications folks – might want to work on that “Uniform Message” thing… (version released to AGENCE France-Presse ) (version released to Associated Press – note the dud in the foreground) Sphere: Related Content [...] |
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