{"id":3180,"date":"2013-07-04T05:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2013-07-04T05:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T05:09:50","slug":"the-space-review-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"The Space Review this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheSpaceReview.com\" target=\"_d\">The Space Review<\/a> begins with the first installment of an account by Chen Lan (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-taikonauts.com\/en\/\" target=\"_d\">Go Taikonauts!<\/a>) of the 1996 Chinese Long March rocket disaster: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2323\/1\" target=\"_d\">Mist around the CZ-3B disaster (part 1)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Foust writes about two projects planning to build constellations of earth observation small sats that have attracted considerable amount of venture capital funding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2322\/1\" target=\"_d\">Smallsat constellations: the killer app?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Hickman is annoyed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal-forward.com\/innovation\/paypal-galactic-initiative-to-tackle-payments-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paypal Galactic<\/a> project : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2321\/1\" target=\"_d\">Conflating space exploration and commercialization: coverage of PayPal\u2019s announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dwayne Day liked the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnetreleasing.com\/europareport\/\" target=\"_d\">Europa Report<\/a>, currently available for rent on line : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2320\/1\" target=\"_d\">Life and death and ice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Foust reviews the book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1455503258\/hobbyspace\">The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story<\/a><\/i> by Lily Koppel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2319\/1\" target=\"_d\">The Astronaut Wives Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1455503258&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of The Space Review begins with the first installment of an account by Chen Lan (Go Taikonauts!) of the 1996 Chinese Long March rocket disaster: Mist around the CZ-3B disaster (part 1). Jeff Foust writes about two projects planning to build constellations of earth observation small sats that have attracted considerable amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Space Review this week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Pi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19440,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19440","url_meta":{"origin":3180,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; Aug.12.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government\u00a0(US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest: Schedule: What\u2019s Happening in Space Policy August 4-17, 2019 \u2013 SpacePolicyOnline.com 6th meeting of the National Space Council on Aug 20 @ Udvar-Hazy Center in VA\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bigelow-xbase-_20160808-001-300x232.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16822,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16822","url_meta":{"origin":3180,"position":1},"title":"Audio: The evolution of the SmallSat industry","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Small satellites, which typically refers to spacecraft in the kilogram to a few hundred kilograms range, have become in the past few years a large and growing part of what is happening in space. 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