ESA’s €18.6 Million Bet on Kepler Communications Reveals How Europe Plans to Build the Backbone of Space-Based Internet
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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A letter to anyone who looked at the night sky as a child and felt both terrified and relieved: that contradiction is the beginning of every meaningful question you’ll ever ask
The child who feels both terrified and relieved by the night sky isn't confused — she's experiencing the cognitive state that generates every meaningful question. That contradiction between insignificance and wonder is the engine of curiosity, not an obstacle to it.
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Italy’s Defence Pact Freeze With Israel Signals a Deeper Fracture in the Western Alliance
The Western alliance is fracturing in real time, and Italy just delivered the clearest proof yet. When Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suspended her country’s defence cooperation agreement with Israel, she didn’t just freeze one bilateral pact — she demonstrated that Donald Trump is losing the European allies he needs to project power in the Middle […]
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Rethinking cyber and space with Joe Mazur
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Nightwing’s Joe Mazur to discuss the intersection of cyber and space.
Novaspace and OGC Unveil the China Space Industry Intelligence Catalog
Vast offers new docking adapter for large space stations
Commercial space station developer Vast unveiled a new docking interface the company is offering to the broader industry for future large stations and spacecraft.
The Digital Networks Act: a reform that requires strategic attention for satellite operators
New Wireless Access Point, Camera, and Remote Interface Unit Join NASA Human Rated Class 1 Layer 3 Ethernet Switch Family
Lebanon as Last Resort: Why Netanyahu’s Political Survival Now Depends on a War He Can Actually Win
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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Sudan’s Economic Collapse By the Numbers: Why Even Peace Can’t Undo $18.8 Billion in Projected Losses
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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