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Space Force: Targeted Growth In a Time of Budgetary Uncertainty
Congress is on recess. The government is five weeks from a possible shutdown. In the middle of that, the U.S. Space Force is quietly on track for the biggest budget increase any military service has received in 75 years.
That’s the headlin...
Satellites, War, and Humanitarian Law: The ICRC Explains
Just before midnight on May 13, a Beech King Air C90 took off from the Roswell Air Center in New Mexico with four people on board for a short flight west to Sierra Blanca Regional Airport, near Ruidoso, to pick up a patient. Roughly 30 minu...
SpaceX's Q2: A Neo Cloud With a Rocket Side Hustle
If you still think SpaceX is a space company, please stop.
Yes. Its “Space” segment covers the launch business. Its “Connectivity” segment is what we know as Starlink. But to understand where the founder and CEO, Elon Musk, is taking the c...
China 1H 2026: Rockets, Vassals, and Purges
Hi there folks.
Starting this Friday I am going to start posting the podcast via Substack. This will simply be the episode, with show notes. You will still be able to listen to the podcast on your preferred player, like YouTube or Apple Po...
What Is Taiwan Building? Why?
Hey there,
I know you are likely getting tired of all of this Elon Musk-SpaceX IPO stuff, but there’s a new amendment to the SpaceX (SPCX) S1, filed on June 5, that includes a very new multi-year $30.4 billion contract with Google LLC. Thi...
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Laura Winter has lived in and reported from eight countries on three continents, but for her very first beat she covered NASA's JPL, at the Glendale News Press.
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