Author Archives: Austin

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Golden Dome Finds Its Shape

This week, the pieces of the U.S. space defense archi­tec­ture moved from Pow­er­Point slides into bud­get lines, con­tract awards, and acti­vat­ed squadrons. Gold­en Dome stopped being a con­cept and start­ed look­ing like a pro­gram. Mean­while, a rock­et anom­aly from six… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Golden Dome Gets $10B Bigger While Artemis Heads Back to the Pad

The space sec­tor does­n’t take breaks, and this week deliv­ered a full slate of sto­ries that mat­ter — from a mis­sile defense bud­get that just got big­ger to a moon rock­et that final­ly made it back to the launch­pad. Buried… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Golden Dome Gains Ground

This week, the Gold­en Dome stopped behav­ing like a cam­paign promise and start­ed behav­ing like an acqui­si­tion pro­gram. Mean­while, Amer­i­ca’s first crewed deep space mis­sion in 53 years cleared its last tech­ni­cal hur­dle, a scrap­py small-launch com­pa­ny deliv­ered clean results… con­tin­ue read­ing »

The Emperor’s New Agent

I spent last week­end rewiring my home AI gate­way — a self-host­ed sys­tem called Open­Claw that con­nects to my mes­sag­ing apps, routes requests to dif­fer­ent AI mod­els, and exe­cutes tasks on my behalf. After a few hours of con­fig­ur­ing event… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Artemis Gets a Reality Check, Golden Dome Accelerates, and the LEO Economy Opens for Business

The space indus­try does not sleep, and this past week proved it. While the coun­try watch­es Oper­a­tion Epic Fury unfold across the Mid­dle East, the space domain qui­et­ly val­i­dat­ed what many of us have been say­ing for years: the con­ver­gence… con­tin­ue read­ing »

AFA Warfare Symposium 2026: The Year of Readiness Takes Center Stage in Denver

The Air & Space Forces Association’s 2026 War­fare Sym­po­sium descend­ed on the Gay­lord Rock­ies Resort and Con­ven­tion Cen­ter this week with more than 9,000 atten­dees, over 150 exhibitor booths, and 40-plus pan­els. For three days, the Depart­ment of the Air… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Golden Dome Takes Shape, Artemis 2 Stumbles, and Commercial Space Bets Big on the Moon

The week hand­ed us a full plate, with Gold­en Dome con­tract action heat­ing up, Artemis 2 run­ning into a fresh com­pli­ca­tion, SpaceX set­ting reuse records, and two of the biggest names in com­mer­cial space qui­et­ly piv­ot­ing toward the Moon for… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Vulcan Anomalies, Billion-Dollar Bets, and a Space Force That Needs to Double

Anoth­er week, anoth­er reminder that the space indus­try moves at a pace that would make most gov­ern­ment acqui­si­tion pro­grams blush. From mas­sive fund­ing rounds to a Space Force that can’t grow fast enough and a Vul­can rock­et that need­ed a… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: Wet Dresses, Falcon Hiccups, and a New Sheriff at NASA

First, an apology—I’m a day late on this week’s post, and I owe you an expla­na­tion. Last week, I was in Col­orado Springs for the Rocky Moun­tain Cyber Sym­po­sium. Fri­day, I was back in Tam­pa to cel­e­brate my birth­day with… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Space Industry Cheat Sheet: The Puzzle Pieces Are Moving, But Does Anyone Have the Box?

This week in the space indus­try felt like watch­ing some­one assem­ble a thou­sand-piece puz­zle with­out the pic­ture on the box. There is a lot of activ­i­ty. Mon­ey is flow­ing. Hard­ware is mov­ing. But whether all these pieces fit togeth­er into… con­tin­ue read­ing »

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