Swarm Book

Swarm Book

Swarm: The Rise of Mega-Constellations and the Battle for Low Earth Orbit - Chapter 1

Orbits of Power: From Sputnik to Starlink © Jay Allen 2025 “It wasn’t the beep that scared them. It was the orbit.” On 4 October 1957, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It weighed just 83 kilograms and

Swarm Book

Swarm: The Rise of Mega-Constellations and the Battle for Low Earth Orbit - Prologue

The Sky is Full © Jay Allen 2025 Above Ukraine, the Future Arrived Early In the opening days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war appeared to follow a familiar script. Tanks breached borders. Missiles rained on cities. Airstrikes lit the skies over Kyiv. Yet high