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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
The speech is available in full here: https://dc.hillsdale.edu/News/Latest-News/The-Urgent-Need-for-a-U-S-Space-Force/ It's extremely general and non-technical. He talks about getting water from the ...
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Is it normal for the US Space Force to warn companies about a possible collision (conjunction)?
Space Fence is what our current tracking system is called. This article claims that some companies and countries have an arrangement to receive tracking data, but few details. It appears that this in ...
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Is it correct that the US wants to form a new branch in the US Military as US Space Force?
I read in the news sometimes ago that Mike Pence proposed to form a new division in the US Army as US Space Force.
It's not just Mike Pence. It's also Donald Trump, and also members of Congress. The ...
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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
The article says that the page has been adapted from Kwast's speech, so it's possible someone transcribed something wrong or misunderstood. Taking an excerpt:
With the right vision and strategy for ...
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Is it normal for the US Space Force to warn companies about a possible collision (conjunction)?
It's routine, and done as a service for the space community at large. Companies doing official business with the U.S. Government can get access to a variety of additional services, but the basic ...
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Why does Vandenberg have the most launches?
Vandenberg does what the Cape cannot do easily: polar and retrograde orbits. These are very popular with a very large customer: the military.
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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
One possibility is converting seawater into potable water. Given for the sake of argument there is "unlimited" energy, it could be used to power desalinization plants. However, I do not see how to get ...
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What is the difference between Cape Canaveral SFS and Patrick SFB?
From Wikipedia:
In the United States, the United States Department of the Navy's General Order No. 135 issued in 1911 as a formal guide to naval terminology described a naval station as "any ...
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What is a "space launch delta", how many of them are there, and what fraction of them are assigned to Space Force?
Partial answer:
What is a "space launch delta",
Essentially what the 30th (and 45th) Space Wings used to be.
how many of them are there, and
Two, under Space Systems Command, US Space ...
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Is 18 Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS) which "detects, tracks, and identifies all artificial objects in Earth orbit" a part of Space Force?
Yes and Yes!
The 18th SPCS (f.n.a "JSpOC") is a Part of the former "Air Force Space Command" (Wikipedia 18 Space Control Squadron).
The AFSpC on the other hand became the "US Space Force" (AFSpC ...
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Help decoding the US Space Force 45th Space Wing emblem symbology
The heraldry is interpreted as follows:
an interleaved right and inverted "T" pattern crossing in blue and yellow,
a line of “Ts” representing continuous testing of space vehicles
two ...
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"Are we there yet?" (45th Space Wing's goal of being able to support 48 launches per year from Cape Canaveral)
The situation in 2020:
“Are we there yet?” (45th Space Wing's goal of being able to support 48 launches per year from Cape Canaveral)
We won't know for certain this year (2020) about the 48 launches,...
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Are de-orbiting Starlink satellites a danger to commercial airliners, as FAA has told Congress?
EDIT: The initial question was "Are de-orbiting Starlink satellites a danger to commercial airliners?". The entire section about the FAA disagreeing with SpaceX's assessment was added later.
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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
This is from a friend of mine who is in the space industry, so I am posting on his behalf:
"I frankly don't believe that Earth will ever be drinking water from space (unless it is luxury water for ...
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How far is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from Kennedy Space Center, administratively and programmatically-wise?
Extremely partial answer addressing only the security aspect of the following quote from the question, and only for the late shuttle program era
But in terms of administrative difficulty, approval ...
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Is it correct that the US wants to form a new branch in the US Military as US Space Force?
It would appear so, and in particular the 2020 re-election team has been busy with designing logos (an essential step in any new enterprise):
Donald Trump's 2020 re-election team offers up 'Space ...
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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
What does space have to do with water for every human?
I'm not sure what specifically Steven Kwast is thinking of, but perhaps one or some combination of:
Already farmers use space satellite ...
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What is the difference between Cape Canaveral SFS and Patrick SFB?
For question 2: in between lives approximately 20,000 people according to the latest census data with millions of tourists annually. Both bases were around before the populations nearby grew big ...
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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
As this seems to be at best a thought experiment, I might make the guess that he might be tying together control of space with weather control (because after all, space and the sky are all off in the ...
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