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Two futures on the Moon
1+ week, 1+ day ago (477+ words) In November 2023, Chinese and Russian defense researchers secretly gathered in Guangzhou to plot the destruction of American commercial satellites. There’s an almost flattering admission in the Russia-China plan: America’s commercial dynamism outpaces anything they can produce. Our rivals can’t build…...
Seeing through the storm: SAR imagery’s evolution beyond defense applications
2+ week, 1+ day ago (649+ words) For decades, SAR was largely used by militaries, but that’s over. Commercial operators sell high-resolution SAR images straight to the public now, with growing demand for such imagery. The physics explains the appeal: radar pulses pass straight through smoke, storms,…...
The Space Review: Decisions without deciders: authority at machine speed in the space enterprise
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1125+ words) Decisions without deciders: authority at machine speed in the space enterprise The Space Review Decisions without deciders: authority at machine speed in the space enterprise by Bharath Gopalaswamy and Daniel “Sphinx” Dant In February, Operation Epic Fury opened with space…...
International lunar consultations: future-looking developments at the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
2+ week, 1+ day ago (283+ words) As lunar exploration accelerates, avoiding interference is a pressing diplomatic issue. In 2024, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) established the Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation (ATLAC) to facilitate expert exchanges. Its mandate complements…...
Lemons to bitter lemonade: from the Samos E-5 to the LANYARD reconnaissance satellite (part 2)
2+ week, 1+ day ago (817+ words) With the LANYARD design, film could come off the supply spool, run over several rollers, and then travel to the platen without twisting. It could then come off the platen and head forward to the takeup spool in the reentry…...
Lemons to bitter lemonade: from the Samos E-5 to the LANYARD reconnaissance satellite (part 1)
3+ week, 1+ day ago (374+ words) Levison and Herther were on a mission. For just over four years now their company, Itek, had been a major designer and manufacturer of reconnaissance satellite cameras. The company’s main product was the CORONA camera, which it built for the…...
Government funding before VC: the inverted capital stack for space startups
3+ week, 1+ day ago (489+ words) The prevailing assumption in the startup ecosystem is that the capital stack has fixed rungs. Friends and family. Angels. Seed round. Series A. The ladder ascends in a predictable sequence, and if you are building hardware—especially space hardware—you are…...
The roads to the Moon
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1669+ words) Most observers believe that the new lunar race is about getting there first. They are wrong. History does not always reward those who arrived first. It remembers those who built the infrastructure upon which everyone else eventually operated. Today, as…...
Rededicating a space museum
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (587+ words) The rededication was more than a symbolic moment to mark the museum’s 50th anniversary. It also celebrates the (nearly) completed renovation of the building, a years-long effort that updated the building itself as well as its exhibits. With the rededication, five…...
The Mars Tax: Starship’s toll on American lunar ambitions
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1309+ words) The Space Review The Mars Tax: Starship’s toll on American lunar ambitions As the Apollo 9 Command Module orbited the Earth in 1969, the Lunar Module (LM) approached for docking and testing. It was the final system needed to carry humans to…...