You might notice that this week’s Abbreviated Science Round-up has gone in a new direction. Don’t worry, the review of recent scientific articles, letters, and research papers will return next week — assuming that Robert Mueller doesn’t drop another 13 indictments on Friday afternoon while I’m trying to concentrate on “Endoplasmic reticulum acyltransferase with prokaryotic substrate preference contributes to triacylglycerol assembly in Chlamydomonas.” Because … seriously.
So, rather than try to read the 19 papers I’d singled out for this week in just a few hours, and making an even bigger mess of it than usual, I thought I’d try this morning giving a sampler of something I’m hoping to add as another regular feature in the next couple of weeks — the Abbreviated Space Round-up.
The Space round up is designed to put you in touch with what’s happening overhead in the next few weeks. What’s launching, what’s being tested, missions in the works, space in the news, news from orbit, Mars, and beyond. Coming off the excitement of the Falcon Heavy launch earlier in the month, it seemed like a good time to remind everyone that we’re in a very exiting time where fantastic space-related news is popping all the time.
Since this is a New Thing — and it’s being thrown together in those same few hours that I didn’t think were enough to do the regular Abbreviated Science Round-up — some of the formatting is going to be odd and the information incomplete. So give me some feedback. Let me know what works, what else you want, and where you need more detail.
And let me know if you’d like an Abbreviated Space Round-up to be a regular weekly feature alongside the Abbreviated Science Round-up … though we’ll have to come up with another name. Because ASR and ASR, is just not going to work.
Now, come on in …