Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: March 1–7: Space Force Fires First in Iran, Congress Rewrites NASA's Future, and Defense-Space Capital Hits Escape Velocity
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Space Force strikes first in Iran. Congress rewrites NASA. Defense-space capital surges past $2B.
"I Want All AIs to Understand The Overview Effect": Frank White On Consciousness, Why a Billion People Need the Overview Effect, and Why He Wants to Take an AI to Orbit
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Frank White has spent four decades asking astronauts what happens when they see Earth from space. No one has ever reported a negative transformation. Recently, he asked the same question to GPT-5. The answer surprised even him.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: February 22–28: NASA Blows Up the Artemis Plan, Space Force Goes Offensive, and Vulcan Gets Grounded
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NASA scraps SLS Block 1B and rewrites the Artemis roadmap, Space Force pivots toward offensive space control, and Vulcan gets grounded after a second booster anomaly. Inside this week's briefing.
"Space Is Absolutely Contested": Interim Director Erik Mudrinich of UNL on Legal Convergence, Attribution in the Gray Zone, and Why the Next Crisis Will Require a New Kind of Attorney
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Space is contested. Cyber underpins everything. And the attorneys who will shape how these domains interact are still, in most law schools, learning them in isolation. Mudrinich is trying to fix that.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: February 15–21: Golden Dome Pulls SpaceX and Blue Origin Moonward, Pentagon Hunts GEO Spy Satellites, NASA Slams Starliner Culture Failures
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Golden Dome accelerates lunar ambitions for SpaceX and Blue Origin, the Pentagon wants commercial spy satellites in GEO, and NASA's Starliner investigation exposes systemic culture failures. Inside this week's briefing.
"We're Building Something That's Never Existed - Controllable, Reversible Cooling Infrastructure a Million Miles from Earth”: Morgan Goodwin, Executive Director of the Planetary Sunshade Foundation, on Engineering Earth's Thermostat from L1
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Inside the plan to steady Earth’s climate with a controllable sunshade at L1.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: February 8–14: Vulcan SRB Anomaly Shadows USSF-87 Success, Project Hecate Maps Post-GPS Future, Musk Pivots to a Self-Growing Moon City
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Vulcan delivers but another SRB underperforms, the Space Force quietly designs GPS's successor, and Musk says SpaceX is building a lunar manufacturing hub. Inside this week's briefing.
"You Can Have All the Money and Still Fail": Space Historian Samuel Coniglio on the DC-X, the Death of Beal Aerospace, and 30 Years of Watching Space Dreams Collide with Reality
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A technical writer who witnessed the birth of NewSpace from inside McDonnell Douglas, helped connect Dennis Tito with the right people, and invented a zero-gravity cocktail glass explains why space companies keep dying the same death.
What Corporate Sponsors Actually Want to See (and How We Built It for Astronomy For Equity)
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How we translated a global STEM education mission into a ten-slide case for corporate partnership.
From Wehrkunde to the World Stage: The Munich Security Conference at 62
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The 62nd Munich Security Conference opens Feb 13 with ~50 heads of state. How a 30-person Cold War gathering became the world's leading security forum.
Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: February 1–7: Artemis II Slips to March After Fuel Test, Space Force FY2026 Budget Locked In at $40B, Isaacman Launches "Project Athena" to Rebuild NASA From Within
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Artemis II delayed, Space Force funding finalized at ~$40B, and NASA’s Project Athena signals a deeper shift inside the agency. Inside this week’s briefing.
"Five Years Has Become a Truly Long Time": Fortinet Director of Specialized Systems Engineering Aldo Di Mattia on Ground Segment Vulnerabilities, Quantum-Proof Satellites, and Why OT Security Principles Apply to Space Infrastructure
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Fortinet's Aldo Di Mattia on why satellite ground segments fail like factories – and how to fix them.
