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OpinionBritish Investment in Eutelsat Bodes Well for Europe’s Goal of Being ‘Sovereign in Space’
It’s no secret that Europe is trailing behind in the new ‘space race.’ We’ve often depended on our friends in the United States for systems and infrastructure. That worked for […]
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OpinionEurope Must Take a Page Out of the SDA’s Playbook and Embrace Flexibility and Iteration
Europe is scrambling to bolster its defenses. It doesn’t take a genius to see why. Geopolitical shifts are underway. There’s a war on the Eastern frontier. And the Americans say […]
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OpinionLasercom Can Lessen the Strain on RF — But It Could Bring Unintended Consequences
As satellite operators raise concerns about radio frequency (RF) congestion, greater use of laser communications in response could have unintended consequences. SpaceX, for example, has warned that its cellular Starlink […]
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OpinionHow Strategic is Space for Europe? A Potential Airbus-Thales Space Merger Could Have the Answer.
In August, 2022, less than six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Atlantic Council’s David T. Burbach proposed that the conflict was the first ‘two-sided space war.’ He described […]