Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: August 3–8, 2026: Senate Confirms Schiess as Third Chief of Space Operations, Golden Dome Sets Its First Flight-Test Dates, and Russia's Kyiv Barrage Beats Ukraine's Air Defenses Entirely
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Schiess takes the Space Force's helm, Golden Dome targets 2027 interceptor flight demos, and a Kyiv barrage that stopped zero missiles kills 17.
"Orbit Is a Global Resource, Not a Rich Man's Plaything": Black Arrow Space Technologies Founder Paul Williams on Four Decades in European Propulsion, Demisable Tanks, and the Seaborne Spacefleet Designed to Widen Access to Launch
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In 1971 Britain reached orbit and walked away. Paul Williams spent 45 years in European propulsion learning why, and what it would take to go back.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: July 27–August 1, 2026: Pentagon Awards $135 Billion in Mega-Contracts in a Single Day, USSPACECOM Codifies the 2040 Space Fight, and Washington Tears Down Launch Licensing Barriers
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A $58.6B Patriot deal and $76.6B in submarines land in one day, SWE 2040 defines the future space war, and launch regulation gets gutted.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sirotin Intelligence Releases "The Space War of 2040, in Plain English" – a Visual Briefing on U.S. Space Command's Space Warfighting Environment 2040 Report
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Independent analysis translates USSPACECOM's 44-page space warfare outlook into a 19-slide briefing for readers outside the Pentagon.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: July 20–25, 2026: Starship Nails First Starlink V3 Deployment, Golden Dome Gets Its Commander and $2 Billion in Tracking Ships, and America's First Robotic Satellite Servicer Reaches Orbit
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Starship deploys all 20 Starlink V3s on its best flight yet, Guetlein takes Golden Dome's helm, and MRV-1 begins a decade of satellite surgery in GEO.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: July 13–18, 2026: SDA Awards $1.75 Billion for Golden Dome Missile-Tracking Satellites, Pentagon's Data-Relay Constellation Reaches Half Strength, and Europe Launches Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition
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Golden Dome gets 36 new missile-tracking satellites, SDA's transport constellation hits the halfway mark, and ten nations form Europe's missile shield coalition.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: July 6 – 10, 2026: China Lands an Orbital Booster for the First Time, NATO Unveils the HALO Mega-Constellation, and Space Force Overhauls Its Acquisition Machine
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China catches a rocket booster at sea, eight NATO allies fuse their satellites into HALO, and the Space Force rewires how it buys everything.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: June 29 – July 4, 2026: Rocket Lab Buys Iridium for $8 Billion, NASA Awards New Moon Base Lander Missions, and Ukraine Strikes Russia's Satellite Nerve Centers
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Rocket Lab swallows Iridium in an $8B mega-deal, NASA taps three landers for its Moon Base, and Ukraine's drones hit Russia's space infrastructure twice.
Sirotin Intelligence Founder Angelica Sirotin Departs for San Diego as Space Samurai: Oasis, Positioned as the Next Major Hollywood Space Franchise Since Star Trek, Enters Principal Photography
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Star Trek inspired a generation. This is your chance to inspire the next one.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: June 22–26, 2026: Pentagon Claims First Golden Dome Intercept, $35 Billion THAAD Surge After Iran War, and Rocket Lab Shatters the Responsive-Launch Record
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Golden Dome scores its first "full mission success," Lockheed lands a $35B THAAD megadeal, and Rocket Lab launches a Space Force satellite in under 17 hours.
"Culture Is a Positive-Sum Game in a Zero-Sum Region": Artist Giusy D'Arrigo on Connessus, Cultural Diplomacy as Statecraft, Why Culture Reaches Where Formal Diplomacy Stalls, and Sicily's Strategic Return to the Center of the Mediterranean
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Can culture do what brute force cannot? Connessus is a bet that it can: a cultural program and needle-shaped sculpture created by the artist Giusy D'Arrigo, with its development and future governance entrusted to Admiral Paolo Russotto, appointed Ambassador in Europe of the Connessus Project.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: June 15-19, 2026: Golden Dome's Orbital Interceptor Race Accelerates, SpaceX Tops $2 Trillion in Historic Debut, and the Senate Advances a $1.2 Trillion Defense Bill
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Northrop and Apex move to demonstrate space-based interceptors, SpaceX becomes the most valuable public company ever, and the Senate clears its FY27 NDAA.
