At a moment when great power competition has returned as the organising logic of international security, when artificial intelligence is reshaping how militaries decide and act, and when the political systems of the West are under pressures their architects did not anticipate, it is worth returning to a book that
Most tools that track grey zone and hybrid conflict stop at the edge of the atmosphere. They cover maritime harassment, proxy operations, cyber intrusions, electronic warfare on the ground. Some do it well. But the moment a conflict extends into orbital space, the picture goes dark. Satellite proximity operations, space-based
Ambiguity. That's the weapon of choice in orbit right now. Not missiles, not kinetic kill vehicles, not the explosive ASAT tests that generate headlines and debris fields. The real contest for space superiority is being fought with manoeuvres that could be maintenance or could be rehearsals for attack,
Offence. That’s the word that defines what the White House released on 6 March 2026. Not resilience, not defence, not cooperation. Offence. It was also released quietly, with remarkably little fanfare, while Washington’s attention was fixed elsewhere: the expanding US-Israel conflict with Iran, which by then had already
If Day 1 at Mobile World Congress confirmed that space is being woven into the fabric of mobile networks, Day 2 showed something harder to headline but arguably more important: the ecosystem around that shift is broader, more layered, and accelerating faster than most public commentary acknowledges. This is no
Mobile World Congress 2026 kicked off this week, and walking the halls on the first day, it was clear that a pattern had quickly emerged. Satellite connectivity is no longer being marketed as a niche solution for remote villages or maritime users. It is being embedded into the core architecture
Thirty-seven years. That’s how long Ali Khamenei held the Islamic Republic together, through sanctions, proxy wars, nuclear brinkmanship, and wave after wave of popular uprising. He survived an assassination attempt that cost him the use of his right arm. He survived Saddam. He survived the Green Movement, the Mahsa
After months of research and development, I'm excited to announce that SwarmWatch is now live. This interactive tool tracks the explosive growth of mega-constellations and provides real-time visibility into one of the most significant transformations happening in space today. Why SwarmWatch Matters When I began researching mega-constellations for
Blue Origin just filed plans for a 5,408-satellite constellation. Not a consumer broadband play. Not a Starlink clone. Something different: an enterprise-grade, multi-orbit data backbone designed to move up to six terabits per second across the planet. They’re calling it TeraWave, and it tells us something important about
Superiority. That's the word that jumped out when Trump signed his latest space executive order on 18th December 2025. Not leadership. Not cooperation. Superiority. Language matters in policy documents, and this one doesn't hide what it is: a declaration that cislunar space, from very low orbit
Software used to wait for you. You opened an application, clicked buttons, filled in forms, and told it exactly what to do. That era is ending. A new class of AI systems doesn't wait for instructions mid-task. It takes a goal, breaks it into steps, picks up tools,
On the morning of 28 January 1986, ice hung from the launch tower at Cape Canaveral. Engineers knew the temperature was unusually low, colder than anything the Space Shuttle programme had experienced before. They also knew that parts of the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters behaved unpredictably in the cold.