click on the image for a larger version The most recent satellite reported to be joining China’s constellation of Beidou navigation satellites is shown in yellow. An example of a geostationary Beidou satellite is shown in white and China’s one and only navigation satellite in a medium Earth orbit (MEO) is shown in green. The …
When Disaster Strikes the Capital
by | 2010-01-18 | 3 Comments
Above: The Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, after and before. Credit: Lisandro Suero Here’s how former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in an interview with Esquire, summed up the state of governance in Haiti after last week’s earthquake: The UN was, in effect, decapitated. The Haitian government was disabled by the destruction of the presidential palace and …
Who was Ronald Reagan?
by | 2010-01-14 | 26 Comments
Ronald Reagan remains a mystery. During his first term, he was vilified by the Left. During his second term, when he sided with the deal makers around him and when hard liners began to take their leave, Reagan was slammed from the Right. An accomplished biographer, Edmund Morris, was given extraordinary access to write an …
Google Finally Shows IRI Space Center
by | 2010-01-13 | 8 Comments
Quite a few of my friends have been urging me to write something about the “new” images of Iran’s space center that have shown up recently on Google Earth. The trouble is, I hate rehashing stuff I wrote about almost two years ago when I “discovered” the facility—much like Columbus “discovered” America—and wrote about it …
