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Growth · March 26, 2019

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Our weekly space industry newsletter is out of beta

Hello HN! My partner and I just published issue #5 of The Orbital Index, our brief & technical weekly newsletter about space science and the space industry, and so we've taken the project out of beta. The process of finding a voice and fine tuning the level of technical detail is ongoing, but we feel like we've arrived at something succinct, interesting, and technical, in a large part because of the great feedback that we have received from HN subscribers from our last Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227434) a month ago. Here's our website, where you can signup…

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Hello HN! My partner and I just published issue #5 of The Orbital Index, our brief & technical weekly newsletter about space science and the space industry, and so we've taken the project out of beta. The process of finding a voice and fine tuning the level of technical detail is ongoing, but we feel like we've arrived at something succinct, interesting, and technical, in a large part because of the great feedback that we have received from HN subscribers from our last Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227434) a month ago. Here's our website, where you can signup for free: https://orbitalindex.com And here is our latest issue, fresh off the presses a few minutes ago: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-03-26-archive-Issue-5/ If you like what we're doing, please tell us! And if you have suggestions for how any part of The Orbital Index could be better, we'd love to hear them too.

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