The 41st Space Symposium wrapped up last week in Colorado Springs, and the headlines coming out of the Broadmoor tell a story the space community needs to hear: ambition is running headlong into arithmetic. From Golden Dome’s cost reckoning to the Space Force’s most explicit warfighting blueprint to date, this was the week where the…
Month: April 2026
Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Moonshots and Missile Shields
This was one of those weeks where the space industry reminded you it can do two things at once: inspire the world and arm it for the fight ahead. Artemis II brought four astronauts home from the Moon for the first time in over fifty years, while the Space Force quietly proved that the same…
Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Moon Shots, Money, and the Machinery of Change
If you’re reading this on a Wednesday morning and feel like the space industry just had one of those weeks where everything happened at once. You’re not wrong. Astronauts are circling the moon for the first time in over fifty years; the Space Force is quietly reorganizing itself for a fight nobody wants, but everybody’s…


