The 1990s hold great potential for progress in space. Space Power will help you keep up with that progress and contribute to it. We certainly hope you will help us out by letting us know what you need from the journal, letting your colleagues know that it is a good place to find thought-provoking articles, and encouraging them to submit papers to it as appropriate—or even submitting the yourself! We have merged with Journal of Lunar Exploration and Development, and Gay Canough, its editor, has joined our editorial board. We have changed our subtitle to reflect this as well as our broadened scope. We are now Space Power—Resources, Manufacturing and Development. The contents of Volume 9 will contain some material that we are still publishing from the Cleveland International Conference on Space Power in June 1989, as well as new submissions. In addition to a wide variety of papers on space power systems and requirements, there will be papers on lunar surface heat rejection, surface navigation on celestial bodies, application of high-temperature superconductors to space power technology, satellite attitude control, satellite interactions with the space plasma environment and papers on other cogent topics. We will be adding emphasis in biospherics and closed environments, and hope to publish some material on radiation biology pertinent to long-term space activities as well. We are working on a special issue in 1992 or 1993 on climate remediation and modification from space (proposed by our new Associate Editor Michael Mautner). While building solar power satellites early enough to avoid intolerable greenhouse warming would be quite sensible, it may not occur. When considered in light of the scale of program necessary to build an SPS, the added effort to block out a little sunlight to compensate for the Greenhouse Effect in manageable—and the added effort to block out ultraviolet of we have not controlled CFC emissions adequately is also within reason. The side effects and implications of this are of great concern and will be explored in future issues. We also expect to publish papers in the areas Space Power traditionally concentrated in during the 1980’s—microwave and other power transmission in space and from space to the ground, solar-power satellite design tradeoffs, the economic, political and social climate for large space projects, the climatic effects of large-scale space activities, biological effects of power beaming, space resource utilization, space commercialization, as well as the societal effects of advanced space activities. We will publish book and article reviews for material we believe it may be worth your while reading, and we will occasionally publish the proceedings of conferences of interest to our readership. We hope that we are running thought-provoking articles. If they do inspire you to do a bit more work on one of the points, or to examine a point the author passed by, please remember that you can submit a comment to the journal. If you have fleshed out an idea but don’t have the time or resources to turn it into a full paper, remember that we also accept notes. Don’t forget to let us know of anyone who needs a bit of encouragement to write and submit that paper we all should read that they haven’t quite gotten around to yet. If you wish to tell us what you like, or what you would like to change about the journal, please feel free to get in touch with Dr Cutler or any of the editorial board. Also feel free to nominate associate editors to Dr Cutler at any time. Editorial
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