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
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
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.
When the Launch Provider Becomes the Compute Provider: Google, SpaceX, and the Orbital Concentration Question
In one calendar week, three of the four major frontier AI labs tied their futures to a single company. For New Zealand enterprise leaders, this is no longer a risk to prepare for. It is the architecture you are already building on.
Orbital Cybersecurity: NZ Is No Longer Just a Consumer
What NCSC-NZ's co-authorship of the five-nation LEO satcom security standard means for boards with satellite dependencies
THE ENERGY CEILING: WHY AI JUST OUTGREW THE EARTH
How physics, not policy, is driving the orbital compute race, and what it means for organisations in New Zealand
The First Orbital Cloud: When 40 GPUs Changed Everything
Episode #7: How one week in April 2026 closed the debate about whether orbital compute is real
Orbital Sovereignty: SpaceX's $75 Billion Bet and the Ground Layer That Must Answer
What the Largest IPO in History Means for Every Organisation That Touches a Satellite
The Week Orbital Compute Became Real
Four independent confirmations in fourteen days changed the investment thesis
Orbital Cybersecurity Kill Chain: When GPUs Go to War
The first commercial orbital edge compute is live. So is the attack surface.
The Orbital Utility: When Nvidia Put a Data Centre in Space
Three events last week confirmed that orbital compute is no longer a thesis. It is a supply chain.
When the Cloud Burns: The AWS Strikes, Kinetic Warfare, and What Every Board Needs to Ask Now
Three AWS data centres. One week. The moment cloud abstraction proved false.
The Sky Is Full of Secrets
Three Billionaires Are Racing to Fill Orbit with Compute Infrastructure. Researchers Just Proved That Nearly Half of Existing Satellite Communications Are Broadcasting in the Clear.
A Thousand Rockets and a Dying Clock
New Zealand's tenfold launch expansion arrives at the most dangerous moment in orbital history

