I will have two articles in The Space Review next week. One of them is about the recovery of the SNAP-19 nuclear generators that fell in the Pacific during a 1968 launch failure. That weird looking craft was called the DOWB.

I have two articles online this week. This is about the people who processed the film from reconnaissance satellites during the Cold War. thespacereview.com/article/5227/1

My new article is online: thespacereview.com/article/5230/1

My next Space Review article will be on Phobos:

NEW — The Roddenberry Archive team launch a new video series highlighting the best of their vault of #StarTrek treasures, starting with 1964's lost-for-decades USS ENTERPRISE model blog.trekcore.com/2026/05/insi...

Progress on my version 2.0 of the Connie Refit as well as some tech I developed for window interiors. #startrek #ussenterprise #enterprise #llap #interiors

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

I will have two articles in The Space Review this week. One is about this:

Starship Flight 12 test. Some success, but missed a key milestone. The splashdown was spectacular:

My new article deals with this: thespacereview.com/article/5223/1

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5223/1

I do space policy, including planetary science policy. I don't know what the heck is going on here: arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

Pop-up book tricorder! Not what I had in mind when I made this illustration, but a fun design exercise.

At a new memorial to the men and women who worked for the Air Force component of the National Reconnaissance Office in Los Angeles. I'm surprised they got JUMPSEAT on there, because it was only declassified a few months ago.

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier coming into Norfolk, Virginia following 11-month deployment - May 16, 2026 SRC: X-@johnmorgan726

Leaked image of new Apple EV.

I don't know if I have 1 or 2 articles in The Space Review next week. But I will have a short article about today's dedication of a memorial at the Air Force Museum in Dayton to the people who worked at the NRO's West Coast projects office.

CBO estimates that Golden Dome will cost $1.2 trillion. A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about _real_ money.

Some really nice Star Trek art by John Carlance. I don't think I'd seen his work before until I saw the post below by @starfleetdesign.bsky.social Images source: thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2023/06/robs...

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5220/1

29 years ago... THE FIFTH ELEMENT

Warning: Adult Content. Viewer discretion advised.

Wow, a newly scanned KH-9 HEXAGON image shows a detailed view of fifth, final, and unlaunched soviet N1 rocket on the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on January 19, 1974. I'll work to get the full scene up on my site for easy viewing asap.

My new article is online: thespacereview.com/article/5216/1

My Space Review article this week (which should be online in a few hours) is about satellite vulnerability in the 1970s. This is a list from a Top Secret report showing the potential threats to US intelligence satellites, and countermeasures. I don't know what "laser warhead" means.

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My Space Review article this week will be about this report. The graphic was taken from a 1970 Soviet journal and had been drawn by two Soviet military officers. They probably would have been amused to know that it appeared in a top secret NRO report a few years later.

An interesting chart from a 1976 National Reconnaissance Office report showing real and emerging Soviet threats to American reconnaissance satellites. It would be worthwhile to look at which ones the Soviets eventually developed in the 1980s.

Next week my Space Review article will be about US reconnaissance satellite vulnerability to Soviet ASATs in the 1970s. This is a Soviet co-orbital ASAT weapon.

It's the 59th anniversary of the death of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the first in-flight fatality of the Space Age. I recently got hold of the official Party report on the disaster which confirms what we knew before of the technical reasons for accident, a failure in the parachute system 1/n

N1 rocket launch in the trailer for "Star City." I wrote about the N1 here: thespacereview.com/article/5205/1

Both the KH-9 HEXAGON and early KH-11 KENNEN reconnaissance satellites used the same rocket and same diameter fairing. However, the KH-9 fairing had access doors in it to reach the pyrotechnics on the reentry vehicles. thespacereview.com/article/5202/1

This is my other article in The Space Review. I recently located launch photos of a bunch of reconnaissance satellites in the 1970s-2000s. Very few of these photos have been published before. Usually publications used the same photo over decades. thespacereview.com/article/5202/1

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5205/1

I have two articles in this week's Space Review. This is the topic of one of them. Should be online by Tuesday.

I will have another article this coming week in The Space Review focusing on newly-discovered launch photographs of reconnaissance satellites.

I have two articles in The Space Review this week. This is one of them: thespacereview.com/article/5201/1

My new article (1 of 2) is up. It is about a bunch of new photos of HEXAGON reconnaissance satellite launches. (I also have photos of other previously unseen launches that I will publish later.) thespacereview.com/article/5198/1

When I was a kid I was a naval buff, and the Kidd-class destroyers were among my favorites. Amazing that they are still serving in Taiwan today.

I have two articles in next week's Space Review. The minor one is about these things:

My Space Review article is about how the intelligence community tracked a Soviet helicopter carrier in the Black Sea based upon its radar emissions. Harry Stranger just found this 1971 photo of a Soviet helicopter carrier in port. thespacereview.com/article/5195/1

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5195/1

Earthrise. Space photography by NASA

In 1967 the Soviet Union began trials in the Black Sea of their new helo carrier, Moskva. US Naval Research Lab satellites tracked the ship, even though the Navy could not get near it. When the the Chief of Naval Operations found out, he was livid. My article in The Space Review will explain why.

Re-upping this post and video from last night. The Big Board at Strategic Air Command has never looked so good. (But don’t tell General Turgidson!)

My next article in The Space Review will be on these two things. Should be online Monday night or early Tuesday.

I spent Wednesday at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum Archives, finding some cool stuff. Then went with a friend on base to the ITL Causeway to watch the Artemis II launch. My photos don't do it justice. It was a perfect day for the launch.

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5190/1

My Space Review article this week is about NRO and the shuttle in the mid-1970s. NRO was dragged kicking and screaming onto shuttle. Newly-declassified documents from 1976 indicate what the NRO was thinking about doing with the shuttle. One possibility was mounting a covert sensor on every flight.