The President, the Secretary of War, and the Chief of Space Operations are all saying it: We no longer have the luxury of time.

Netanyahu is escalating in Lebanon because it is the only front where he can claim a winnable victory for domestic political survival. That single fact explains more about the current campaign than any security briefing or diplomatic statement. With prolonged military operations across the region producing no decisive outcomes, Lebanon has become the stage where […]

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‘Future Operating Environment’ and ‘Objective Force’ documents outline a contested space domain and call for a combat-ready force

Sudan’s civil war has produced a economic catastrophe so severe that even an immediate peace deal cannot undo it: projected cumulative GDP losses of $18.8 billion stretching to 2043, with average incomes already thrown back to levels last seen in the early 1990s. A quarter century of economic progress, erased in three years. That projection, […]

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Space domain awareness has a data problem. Not a shortage of data, but a shortage of the right data, delivered at the right time, with enough autonomy to act on […]

Strategic silence in group decisions isn't passivity — it's a rational response to environments that punish honesty. The quiet person has calculated the social cost of speaking up and found the price too high, revealing more about the group's dysfunction than their own.

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In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Nightwing’s Joe Mazur to discuss the intersection of cyber and space.

Shrinking ice is arguably one of the most visible indicators of climate change – particularly in the Arctic. However, a European Space Agency-funded study used information from satellites to show that Antarctica is now experiencing similar dramatic changes, with profound consequences for key plankton species that underpin the region’s marine food web.

The European Space Agency just handed a Canadian satellite operator the keys to one of Europe’s most strategically important space programs. The question is why. ESA awarded Kepler Communications an 18.6 million euro ($22 million) contract to lead the final demonstration element of HydRON, a program that aims to build the world’s first multi-orbital optical […]

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