Just can’t get enough news about space garbage? Well you are in luck, my friend! From this week’s TMQ comes news of what has got to be the strangest mailing list to which you can subscribe:
The Orbital Debris Quarterly News is a publication of the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. It is published four times a year and is available in downloadable PDF files. Each newsletter contains information on some of the latest events in orbital debris research. The sections of the newsletter are news, project reviews, meeting reports, orbital debris statistics, and upcoming events.
One can only imagine what sort of fascinating upcoming events there are in the world of orbital debris. And, on a serious note, someone has got to find out why this publication was on hiatus from July of 2002 until January of 2004. What gives? Are you telling me that for nineteen straight months there was absolutely no orbital debris news? I find that hard to believe …