§ RResearch Journal

Findings, published as plates.

Quarterly, open access, citable. Written by the analysts who ran the observations, with the working shown and the disagreements left in.

§ R.1Recent volumes
  1. Vol. 12

    Drag Anomalies in the 500 km Shell

    K. Adeyemi, R. Lindqvist

    March 2026
  2. Vol. 11

    Cislunar Traffic Before the Gateway

    M. Okada

    December 2025
  3. Vol. 10

    Rethinking Conjunction Probability Thresholds

    S. Bhatt, J. Ferreira

    September 2025
  4. Vol. 09

    Optical Recovery of Uncatalogued Debris

    L. Moreau

    June 2025
  5. Vol. 08

    Storm-Driven Downlink Loss: Five Case Studies

    T. Nyström, A. Rahal

    March 2025
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§ R.2The aperture network

Eighteen stations, one shared clock.

From Kiruna to Karoo, every dish and telescope in the network is referenced to the same timing standard, which is what lets us combine an optical streak in Chile with a radar return in Sweden into a single credible track.

§ R.3Plate ix

the ecliptic, drawn for the 2026 almanac — not to scale