Editing Jonathan's Space Report

{{Short description|Newsletter about the Space Age}}
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{{Infobox website
| name             = ''Jonathan's Space Report''
| url              = {{URL|http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html}}
| type             = [[Astronautics]]
| language         = English
| author           = Jonathan McDowell
| launch_date      = {{Start date and age|1989}}
| current_status   = active
}}
'''''Jonathan's Space Report''''' (JSR) is a newsletter about the [[Space Age]] hosted at '''Jonathan's Space Page'''. It is written by [[Jonathan McDowell]], a [[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics|Center for Astrophysics {{!}} Harvard & Smithsonian]] astrophysicist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan McDowell / HarvardScience |url=http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/jonathan-mcdowell |publisher=[[Harvard University]] - Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs |access-date=2009-02-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409031335/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/science-n-health/ |archive-date=2012-04-09 }}</ref> It is updated as McDowell's schedule permits, but he tries to publish two issues each month. Originally, the website was hosted on a Harvard University account, but it was moved in late 2003 to a dedicated domain.<ref>see  [https://web.archive.org/web/20030901000000*/http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html Archive.org chronology]</ref>

Started in 1989,<ref>{{cite web |title=Space Report No. 1, Jan 30, 1989 |url=https://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.1.txt |publisher=Jonathan McDowell |access-date=2009-02-12}}</ref> the newsletter reports on recent space launches, [[International Space Station]] activities, spacecraft developments, and newly released space-related data. McDowell's report occasionally corrects [[NASA]]'s official web sites, or provides additional data on classified launches that are not available elsewhere.

Associated projects on the JSR web site are:
* A catalog of all known [[geosynchronous satellite]]s and their current positions
* A listing of [[artificial satellite|satellite]] [[2009 in spaceflight#Next:|launch attempts]]
* A cross-reference between catalog number and international designation of artificial satellites
* A photo archive covering many launch attempts
* A catalog of all spacecraft reentries

McDowell has long campaigned for U.S. compliance with the [[United Nations|UN]] [[Convention on Registration of Outer Space Objects]] (1975) and UN Resolution 1721B (1961).<ref name="CRISO">{{cite web |title=Jonathan McDowell's Statement on United States Non-Compliance with UNR1721B |url=http://planet4589.org/space/un/untxt.html |publisher=Jonathan McDowell |access-date=2009-02-12}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html}}
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