"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
"The Least We Can Do Is Throw A Better Party": TSAS President & Founder, Erick Weiss On Building The New World's Faire In Houston, The Storytelling Gap That's Holding The Industry Back, And Why Every Company Is Already A Space Company
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Erick Weiss is throwing Houston a better party – and trying to fix space's storytelling problem.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: May 18–22, 2026: Starship V3 Debuts on Flight 12, Rocket Lab Lands Its First GEO Production Contract with $90M Heimdall, and Meink Tells HASC a Third Heavy-Lift Launch Site Is Probably Required
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SpaceX's V3 megarocket flies after multiple scrubs, Rocket Lab pushes its vertical-integration thesis into GEO, and the Air Force confirms current spaceports won't carry the next decade of launches.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: May 11–15, 2026: CBO Pegs Golden Dome at $1.2 Trillion as Guetlein Pushes Back, Hegseth Joins Trump in Beijing for the Xi Summit, and NROL-172 Scales the NRO Proliferated Architecture from Vandenberg
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Golden Dome's price tag emerges as its director rejects the math, the first sitting SecDef joins a U.S. president in Beijing, and the NRO's proliferated architecture scales again.
