Orbital Compliance: A Thousand Built, Four Hundred Flying
Amazon has 1,000 satellites built and 396 flying. The FCC counts only the second number.
Orbital Regulation: Fifteen Thousand Satellites and the Rule That Bent for a Rival
The FCC gave SpaceX nine years and Amazon Leo a second chance, in the same season.
Orbital Compute: Four Chips, Fifteen Minutes, and an Honest Price Tag
Google's own numbers: $3,600 a kilogram today, $200 needed for the vision to work
Orbital Compute: 151,600 Satellites Filed, No Flight Data Yet
The filings promise more satellites than exist in orbit. Neither has flown a watt.
Orbital Debris: The Sustainability Index Just Went From Four to Fifty
ESA's own report says the measurement got sharper. It also says the number got an order of magnitude worse in a single year.
Orbital Sovereignty: Two Kinds in One Week
Rocket Lab retired a mineral dependency. The RNZAF and ADF chose to share one instead.
Orbital Compute: One Side Opened a District, the Other Announced a Partnership
Songjiang's tenants predate its hub. Starmind AI1's own power figures still do not agree.
The Compute Goes Up, the Licence Stays Down
The FCC Rewrote Satellite Licensing on 22 July, and Most Coverage Got the Bond Wrong
The Ground Segment Is the Sovereignty Question
NZSIS Named a Chinese Institute Over a Bid to Plant Ground Station Hardware on NZ Soil
The Spaceport in a Shipping Container: Rocket Lab's GHOST and Responsive Sovereignty
A US$266 million Space Force contract becomes an exportable sovereignty product
Sovereign Compute Leaves the Planet: Starmind, and the One Stack That Owns It
SpaceX and NVIDIA just fused launch, orbit and AI silicon into one stack, unflown
The Land Grab Above the Weather: 105,000 Satellites Filed in a Single Week
SAM#16, six weeks on: two new filings, one regulator that cannot hold a deadline
The Space Gas Station: How a Refuelling Test From Māhia Rewrites the Economics of Deep Space
LOXSAT, Cryo-Dock, and who owns the fuel stop for the deep space economy
Compute Above the Weather: The Week a 1,000-Satellite AI Data Centre Started Going Up
Xingshu, the Two Space Clouds, and the orbital compute race that now has hardware on both sides
Sixteen Hours, Forty-Two Minutes: Rocket Lab, Māhia, and Responsive Space
When Collaborative Vertical Integration became a military operating model
Orbital Sovereignty: Rocket Lab's $8 Billion Iridium Deal and the Ownership Question
Collaborative Vertical Integration, and the gap between owning and hosting
A Million Satellites for the Machine: The Orbital Compute Land Rush
A million compute satellites filed, and no framework can cap the scale
Two Ways to Put a Brain in Orbit
The SpaceX/xAI Mega-IPO and a Pelican Over Alice Springs Just Confirmed the Split Space Mafia Predicted
WHEN THE ROCKET IS THE DATA CENTRE
Cowboy Space and the Architecture Decision That Changes How Orbital Compute Gets Built
Orbital AI: The Hyperscaler Triple
Bezos, Schmidt, and Musk all committed to orbital compute in one week. Starcloud confirmed it works. No governance framework reaches this far.