Space Is Hard But It’s Always Sunny in Orbit
That “always sunny” optimism is exactly what’s fueling the most audacious pivot in the space industry right now. It’s certainly true that as of early 2026, Elon Musk and Jeff […]
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The Fractal Lab – Part II
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.
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The Fractal Lab
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 why orbital computing succeeds or fails first at 10 kilograms, not 10,000.
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Clearing the Queue: FCC’s Schedule A Firewall and the End of Anonymous Capital
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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The 200,000-Satellite Filing: When Commercial Loopholes Become State Weapons
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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The Architecture We Inherited: Artemis, Commercial Space, and the Long Shadow of 2010
The January 17 rollout of Artemis II represents a genuine technical achievement and a policy paradox. To understand why NASA is rolling out a roughly $4 billion-per-launch vehicle in an era of reusable rockets, we must examine what happened in 2010, when three divergent futures began that are now converging on Pad 39B.
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Permission to Shout: The Risks Inside the New SpaceX License
SatNews Editorial Analysis Executive Summary The Event: The FCC’s December 16, 2025, grant of the SpaceX/T-Mobile Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) license officially graduated Direct-to-Device (D2D) from a beta experiment […]
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Trump, Musk, and the Arctic: The Secret Fight for the World’s Most Strategic Ground
By Evan Grey, Legal Contributor, SatNews Recent developments in Greenland offer a case study in how geopolitical tensions are influencing satellite service procurement decisions. While the territory’s small population limits direct market […]
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Rivada Space Networks: Time for an announcement?
There are clues that something is bubbling under.
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The Space Industry’s Retention Crisis
SatNews Editorial Analysis The satellite and space industry has a problem it doesn’t want to talk about. While executives parade billion-dollar valuations and revolutionary mega-constellations across conference stages, a quieter […]
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