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.
"Space Is a Patchwork Quilt": Space Technologies LTD Principal and Former U.S. Space Force Branch Chief David Beck on Autonomy in Orbit, the Real Meaning of Digital Assets, and What Founders Get Wrong Selling to the Pentagon
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A cross-domain engineer who has worked land, air, sea, and now space on why orbit still needs a human in the loop, why a satellite that cannot rewrite its own code is a liability, and why the truth is the only story worth telling.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: June 8–12, 2026: SpaceX Stages the Largest IPO in History, NASA Names the Artemis III Crew, and Northrop Grumman Takes the Lead on Golden Dome's Orbital Layer
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SpaceX debuts at a $2.1 trillion close, NASA hands Artemis III to a Marine and the first European on the program, and the Pentagon's space interceptors find their prime contractor.
"They're Explorers, Even If They Do No Science": Former ESA Communications Lead and NATO DIANA Mentor Anna Ambroszkiewicz on the Economics of Dual-Use, the IGNIS Mission Behind the Scenes, and Poland's Rise in European Space
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The communications lead for Poland's first astronaut mission in over 40 years on why dual-use startups survive on their civilian business, what running a launch from the inside actually takes, and the words she wishes the space industry would drop.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: June 1-5, 2026: Northrop Grumman Lands the First Orbital Interceptor Demo for Golden Dome, SpaceX Races Toward a Record $2 Trillion IPO, and NASA Prepares to Name Its Artemis III Crew
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Golden Dome's interceptor layer moved from slide deck to signed contract, SpaceX lined up the largest IPO in history, and NASA readied its Artemis III crew.
"The Satellite Can Now Certify Its Own Stability, in Microseconds": Eduardo Hernández Morales, Founder of the Gamma Systems Research Laboratory, on Real-Time Robust Control and Why Lunar Infrastructure Will Need His Mathematics First
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A self-taught Mexican engineer spent much of three decades building a real-time stability framework largely on his own. Aerospace, energy, and bioelectronics are now circling the same idea.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: May 25–29, 2026: Blue Origin's New Glenn Explodes on the Pad, SpaceX Banks $6.45 Billion in Two Space Force Constellation Awards, and HASC Drops FY27 NDAA That Would Erase SDA
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Blue Origin's New Glenn destroys its only orbital pad, SpaceX wins both the Joint Force's data backbone and its airborne-target tracker, and HASC moves to dissolve SDA.
Sirotin Intelligence Publishes Strategic Communications Trends in Space & Defense 2026, Drawing on Nearly 80 Primary-Source Interviews Across the Global Space and Defense Ecosystem
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Sirotin Intelligence today released Strategic Communications Trends in Space & Defense 2026, a research briefing examining recurring communication patterns identified
