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SatNews has rolled out a completely redesigned satnews.com with its full 52,000-story archive searchable and intact, sitting right alongside today’s headlines on SpaceX’s looming IPO, Germany’s €35 billion LEO commitment, […]
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Operation Epic Fury tests the Law of Armed Conflict in space. How MizarVision's proxy ISR imagery — sourced from U.S. satellites — is straining the legal definitions of combatant, civilian object, and Direct Participation in Hostilities.
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The commercial satellite communications sector has reached a structural turning point. The assumption of a borderless sky, where global mesh networks and technical neutrality defined market access, no longer holds. The industry has entered a new phase in which states intervene directly to enforce what amounts to orbital sovereignty.
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SatNews Editorial Analysis Before we dream of floating data centers, we must understand why the SmallSat is the only laboratory that matters. Welcome to The Fractal Lab: a three-part series on […]
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REMOTE | HIGH AUTONOMY | UNCAPPED POTENTIAL The space industry isn’t just expanding, it’s exploding. From Starship test flights and mega-constellation deployments to regulatory battles and billion-dollar M&A deals, the […]
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In Part 2 of this series, we examine the second bottleneck facing the Orbital Data Center (ODC) : Data Gravity. We will explore why moving exabytes to and from orbit is harder than processing them, and how this specific constraint fractures the market into two mutually exclusive compute types: the high-speed "Real-Time Reduction Hub" and the massive "Batch Trainer." We will also examine other computing challenges unique to space.
Read MoreHAWTHORNE, California – In a move that significantly expands its orbital footprint, SpaceX submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday, January 30, to deploy a massive […]
Read MoreBefore we dream of floating data centers, we must understand why the SmallSat is the only laboratory that matters. Welcome to The Fractal Lab: a three-part series on why orbital computing succeeds or fails first at 10 kilograms, not 10,000.
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This is the second in a continuing series on the strategic evolution of space regulation. Part one, “The 200,000-Satellite Filing: When Commercial Loopholes Become State Weapons,” examined how speculative filings distort global coordination. Part two examines the U.S. regulatory response.
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By Evan Grey, Legal Contributor, SatNews The primary battleground for space supremacy has shifted. While the world watches the launchpads, the decisive contest is unfolding inside the filing processes of the International […]
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