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Space Power: Commercial Satellite Imagery For Intelligence & Operations Is At Risk
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, said that in preparation for Operation Midnight Hammer, two Defense Threat Reduction Agency analysts studied activities at the Fordo Uranium…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Space Competition: Down Under Companies, Leaders Target US Space & Defense Market
As Australia’s former Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for additions to the 2021 AUKUS Agreement that would strengthen the security pact in the space domain, Australian space companies began a to…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Space Power: The Problem With The Trump-Musk RUD That Wasn’t
Elon Musk regrets “some” of his recent posts about U.S. President Donald Trump. Phew! But their relationship’s rapid unscheduled disassembly, or RUD, reveals how vulnerable civil and national securit…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Space Competition: Lawsuits, Loans, Proxies And Pirates
The Trump-Musk “bromance” break-up is clearly visible on the world stage and worrying many about just how far and how deep the fallout will be for space and defense. What’s not-so-visible, are the ag…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Space Money: A Fighting Irishman Walks Into A Boardroom With The PRC
This week’s episode details what happened when the CEO of a European-US space company bought into a shareholder fight involving two Chinese government-backed entities, that are deeply involved with t…
Published on 3 months ago
Space Money: IonQ & Capella CEOs on the $318m Deal, Plans & Vision
The $318 million IonQ purchase deal to acquire Capella Space is bringing together two worlds in a high-stakes bid to radically change satellite-to-satellite and satellite-to-ground communications and…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Space Tech: A Soft Touchdown Closes Varda’s Business Case
This week planet Earth is seeing two re-entries of man-made objects: first the uncontrolled, possibly life-threatening, Soviet-era Kosmos 482; and second, the W-3 - an example of the very controlled,…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Space Money: Pullen’s Analysis - Don’t Freak. “Take A Deep Breath.”
Is there really sunshine in the Space Sector? April was a rough month for businesses, consumers, and public equities traders, all tenderized by the blows of uncertain trade policies. The DownLlink Po…
Published on 4 months ago
Space Power: Look Beyond “The Tips Of Your Skis”
Want to think beyond 2045? There’s a process for that called Strategic Foresight. According to a new U.S. Space Force Report, the newest service branch needs to employ it. Laura Winter speaks with tw…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Space Power: Space Force Is Using Fighting Words!
This week the U.S. Space Force let a linguistic genie out of the bottle. The newest service branch published a 22-page guide for planners called “Space Warfighting”, that ditches soft elocution and t…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago