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A Bit O’ Brilliant Green!

March 12, 2020 Outbound Asteroids!

This is a beautiful sight!

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Outbound Operational Plan for Space Migration: Robots to Kuiper Belt

November 13, 2019 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Wagons Ho!

We’ve been on a trend of talking about all the places in the Solar System that we shouldn’t go, as they aren’t habitable. That leads to OPS.15, the robotic exploration of the Kuiper Belt. Named

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Hammerstrike Dispatch #2

September 25, 2019 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Astrosociology

In a story from SpaceDaily/Sputnik News, it’s fully apparent that under our current ability to detect incoming asteroid or comet impactor we may never have any warning. “Because there may be media coverage tomorrow, I’m

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Hammerstrike Dispatch #1

September 24, 2019 Outbound Asteroids!, Astrosociology

One of these days, a seriously substantial piece of the cosmos is going to hit us. It’s not really a speculative event, other than the date and time. I mean a real and devastating asteroid

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The Earth: You will be rocked

August 21, 2019 Outbound Asteroids!, Astrosociology

In a story on Zerohedge about the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Apophis, it is noted that the celestial body is to pass within the orbital range of most of our communication satellites, approaching somewhere in the

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Outbound Operational Plan for Space Migration: Robots to Mars

August 12, 2019 Outbound Asteroids!, Astrosociology, Wagons Ho!

While we’ve talking about Lunar Exploration, a parallel path would be underway to check out the Red Planet. Starting around Robotic Asteroid Exploration (OPS.7), the phase known as Robotic Martian Exploration (OPS.11) would begin. The

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Asteroid Hunting with the Big Guns

July 8, 2019 Outbound Asteroids!

I just read an interesting article regarding this year’s Planetary Defense Congress, held in College Park, Maryland. The panel held a “wargame” of sorts over what to do with an incoming asteroid of an average

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Outbound Operational Plan for Space Migration: Robotic Asteroid Exploration

June 4, 2019 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Astrosociology, Wagons Ho!

So far, I’ve been charting a programmatic course that has taken Outbound to the moon with robotic surveys and construction demonstrations. Now it’s time to flex some operational muscle and go for stretch goals. In

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Bennu, Not a Potato This Time

December 4, 2018 Outbound Asteroids!

This week has humanity reaching out to another asteroid, this one named Bennu, the target of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Bennu is not content to be a tumbling potato in space, but is rather geometric in

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Mars Study – Oldie But Goodie

May 12, 2015 Outbound Asteroids!, Astrosociology

Robert Zubrin’s The Case For Mars (TCM) has been in publication for a couple of decades now, and is a seminal work in the space advocacy genre. Really, it shares space next to weighty volumes like those

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