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Professor of Astronautics

University of Southern California (USC)

Mike's selected scholarly publications (out of 300+)


Sputnik    Explorer    Vanguard    Astronautics    Missile defense    Baikonur Tyuratam    Rocket equation    Rocket espionage


LinkedIn Articles



2024


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, August 31, 2023
new era

August 12, 2024

A Trojan Leads First Americans to Contested City -- Liberation of Paris 80 Years Ago



2023


November 26, 2023

Sabotage operation of the year: Crimean bridge attack

Sabotage Operation of the Year: Crimean Bridge Attack on July 17, 2023


November 25, 2023

also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, November 27, 2023
DPRK North Korea satellite launch

From the First Launch in 2012 to New North Korea Satellite Malligyong-1 in Sun-Synchronous Orbit


November 23, 2023

No Freedom without Solidarity: Gdansk on December 16, 1984

No Freedom without Solidarity: Gdansk on December 16, 1984.
Nie ma wolności bez Solidarności
Lest we forget: a Cold War story


October 28, 2023

disgrace at U.N.

Another Disgrace at the United Nations


June 22, 2023

new era

60 Years Ago - Ich bin ein Berliner


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, June 30, 2023
new era

June 21, 2023

The End of an Era - Delta


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, March 24, 2023
new era

March 24, 2023
first published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, Aviation Week & Space Technology (March 24, 2023)

Opinion: To protect or avenge -- 40 years of the Strategic Defense Initiative. It is time to build a space-based missile defense layer.


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, February 28, 2023
new era

February 7, 2023

Chinese balloon over the United States -- A lesson from the history of overhead reconnaissance. Project GENETRIX



2021


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, August 31, 2021
new era

August 14, 2021

Beginning of New Era: SMC and SSC


March 23, 2021

State of U.S. Media


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, March 26, 2021
First Intercept

March 2, 2021

First IRBM Intercept -- 60 Years Ago


2020


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, October 15, 2020
ISS leak, 2020

October 1, 2020

Leak on International Space Station – 2020


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, May 2020
50 Years of China in Space

April 28, 2020

The East is Red -- 50 Years of China in Space


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, April 2020
Dr. S. Fred Singer

April 12, 2020

Dr. S. Fred Singer -- Pioneer from Great Space Generation


also published in Newsletter, Los Angeles -- Las Vegas Section, AIAA, March 2020
open skies for national security

February 26, 2020

Open Skies for National Security


2019

November 29, 2019

Armada de Chile: 200 Years of Rocketry in South America

July 4, 2019

Translation maneuvers of Apollo 11 during moon landing and erroneous switch position

June 23, 2019

Robert Goddard - 100 and 50 years ago. Important Space Anniversaries

June 23, 2019

Rocket Espionage


2018

March 2, 2018

Arms Race -- New Generation of Russian Strategic Weapons

February 9, 2018

Elon Musk's Roadster for one billion years in space. Here is why not forever.


2017

October 29, 2017

Bite-n-Bark and Purr-n-Fur in Space

October 23, 2017

Commissars Wanted: Join the Party and Fly into Space

October 1, 2017

Sputnik Launch 60 Years Ago: Personal Reflection at IAC

September 16, 2017

Scud Ballistic Missiles

September 2, 2017

70 years ago: Launching V-2 Ballistic Missiles from a Ship

August 20, 2017

Sixty Year Ago: The First ICBM

August 5, 2017

Sixty Year Ago: Discovery of Tyuratam (Baikonur launch site)

August 4, 2017

Threats in Space

May 29, 2017

Israel's space program -- 35 years ago

May 14, 2017

Laser space battle station Polyus - 30 years ago

May 7, 2017

President Truman Signs Public Law 60 -- 68 years ago

April 10, 2017

New Sad Record in Rocketry and Space

April 1, 2017

World's First Reconnaissance Satellite GRAB

March 25, 2017

80th Anniversary of Cosmonautics - Kosmonavtika

March 12, 2017

Human vs. Robotic Spaceflight

March 9, 2017

Sad Times. Two Thousand Days and Counting

February 27, 2017

Rocket Equation

February 14, 2017

First Large Scale Modern Rocket Development -- Not in Germany

January 31, 2017

What Happened to Explorer 1 -- 59 Years Ago

January 24, 2017

The (Very) First Missile Intercept

January 16, 2017

Presidential transition this week and Eisenhower's legacy in space

January 11, 2017

Authorization for Sputnik - 60 Years Ago

January 3, 2017

Earth at Perihelion -Best Time to Launch an Interstellar Ship


2016

December 26, 2016

Happy Birthday, "Astronautics"!

December 17, 2016

Recent Hacking, SF 86, and Astronautics Graduates

December 11, 2016

Passing of John Glenn



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