Must admit I'm pretty bugged. I was in meetings all day, came home to get some work done, have been working all night, and just realized that I missed the lunar eclipse tonight. It's a beautiful night out there and the view would have been great.
Liking the new job but there's such a backlog of stuff to get done before the Orlando & London conferences in March that I hardly have time to breathe these days.
In other space news I got a news flash on Reuters that the Navy was able to knock down that dead spysat with an ASAT missile launched from one of their cruisers out in the Pacific. I'm mildly surprised they succeeded. The track record of the missile defense program has been dreadful.
I know there's a lot of angst about the militarization of space (and that Chinese ASAT exercise last year was just stupid). But this Navy test might not be all bad. Iran launched an suborbital research rocket a couple of weeks ago and may launch a satellite any day now, which means they're on track to have a rocket that can hit New York by the end of the decade.
Posted by case at February 20, 2008 10:30 PM