Editorial ANDREW HALL CUTLER Space Solar Power Review became Space Power in 1986, and now has a change of Editor and publisher as well as title. The scope is new and enlarged, and the Editorial Board will be reinvigorated in the coming year. All this is being done to better serve you, our reader. This is your journal. Its success is your success, its failure your failure. So take your journal to heart and help us make it a success! Help us publish quality material on all aspects of advanced space activities. Help us understand what you want to see in your journal. Help us maintain a healthy subscription base by making sure appropriate libraries and individuals subscribe! As the new Editor-in-Chief, I need your help with a number of matters. I need nominations for Associate Editors, I need nominations for peer reviewers, I need submissions, and I need to know who might need a bit of encouragement from me to write that interesting paper that you all want to read. The newly revised scope statement is published on the inside front cover of this and every issue -1 encourage you to read it whether you intend to publish here or not. This scope statement says what the journal is all about. Let me know what you think about it. Let me know whether I should amend it, or if you like it just the way it is. With so much new at the journal, we are forced to be a little fast and loose in how we put together the next few issues. Be that as it may, we intend to run a peer- reviewed journal of the highest calibre. Let me call out a few of the ways in which we will depart from the usual practices followed by dry academic journals, and use the editorial process to your best advantage: • We will encourage referees to sign their reviews so the authors can get immediate feedback on comments and can understand the comments in the context of the reviewer's background. • When the reviewers make useful comments that the authors are not able to respond to in their paper we will publish the pertinent portions of the review along with the paper rather than inordinately delaying publication to get things straight. • We reserve the right to edit papers for style in order to spare our busy authors the burden of rewriting while offering the reader a clear and concise journal. • We will solicit papers as required to maintain a balanced and high quality journal. In order to keep the journal topical and full of new ideas, we will publish comments and notes on articles which have appeared herein. If you have a particularly interesting insight into some detail of an article, or if you have been able to calculate the value of a parameter that the author did not get around to, or if you have some means of showing the results in an interesting perspective please share it with the other readers of Space Power.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTU5NjU0Mg==