The next post in my new series:
Outer Space in an Unexpected Place #2: The Feather and Flute at the National Museum of the American Indian – A feather and flute carried by John Herrington on his first spaceflight, now on display at the Smithsonian’s NMAI, celebrate his journey as America’s first Native astronaut.
Amateur radio on Earth’s surface is fun, but there’s nothing like using your own gear to connect with a satellite. It is one of the few ways to truly feel the spacecraft flying overhead every day.
In my latest Jeff Dobereiner Substack post I write about receiving signals from NOAA’s Polar Orbiting satellites and the quiet end of a decades-long relationship between these satellites and the hobbyist community.
I often make little space discoveries through my travels, hobbies, and day-to-day work at NASA. I launched The Jeff Dobereiner Substack as a place to share these insights into space history, engineering, and exploration.
My first post kicks off a new series:
Outer Space in an Unexpected Place #1: Sputnik at the United Nations Headquarters – A full-scale Sputnik replica from the USSR, gifted to the UN in 1959, has hung in the United Nations Headquarters lobby ever since—an unexpected relic of the space race in the heart of global diplomacy.
I co-authored a new paper in Space Policy on the economics of NASA’s shift to commercial satellite communications in low Earth orbit.
We built a fully open-source techno-economic model that you can explore and adapt.
That’s all for now — more soon!
Jeffrey Dobereiner 