Hot off the presses from Space Force. You gotta love the robot grappler arms on the Orbital Attacks graphic. (This is why we are building Perceptor btw)

We are 100% in a race with China right now. We need to get to the Moon and secure the permanently shadowed craters that hold valuable Lunar ice, before they do. China is making a beeline there as we speak. No time to waste. LFG.

Ridiculous headline. The study looked at a lunar city of 1 million people with no recycling. Instead assume the water recycling of the ISS at 94% and “only” 100,000 people. You get to 1,000 years easy. Plenty of time to go capture an icy asteroid and park it in cislunar orbit.

Awesome to see Marc last night. Nobody brings people together like @Benioff. We need more of his positivity in the world. It’s going to be a glorious future!

Day trips to visit my Gundo friends? Yes please. Not even joking, total game changer for those of us working in hard tech.

I’m very excited to announce a new Astranis partner in the Middle East and a new satellite-- a dedicated MicroGEO for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Astranis has signed a contract with @stc, the largest telco in Saudi Arabia, for a satellite that will launch next year to provide mission critical networking and telecoms services. This is a great example of how Astranis is building out the infrastructure of high orbits, helping countries around the world build and deliver the essential services that they need. Importantly, what we do is something that would be impossible on a shared network or LEO constellation. GEO is the only orbit where you can park a satellite over one specific part of the world 24/7, which is why Astranis started there. Our MicroGEO satellites, built in America at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional large satellites, put dedicated satellite capacity within reach of any nation that wants it. Our customers control coverage, payload configuration, and the networking stack end to end. While data stays in country, private and secure. Saudi Arabia is making one of the world’s biggest investments in digital infrastructure, committing over $8 billion to future next-generation network build out, and now that backbone will extend 22,000 miles into space. It is an honor to build for stc group and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Expansion Era is underway.

Starfleet Academy on par with the Air Force or Naval Academy is going to be abesolutrly awesome. LFG!

So it begins

Now this is the kind of space community drama I am here for

Awesome to talk to my old friend @pronounced_kyle on MTS about the space industry's expansion era. It's time to start building out the infrastructure we need beyond low Earth orbit.

The cat and mouse games in GEO continue

Like it or not, Space is now a dangerous neighborhood. It's time to bring back the neighorhood watch. Today we're announcing Perceptor-- our new Space Domain Awareness spacecraft, and our first product line outside of comms. The message we've heard from Space Force these last few years has been loud and clear-- GEO is the most important orbit for military space. But that presents a problem, since there are few companies that can reliably and quickly deploy spacecraft to GEO. And it's not just for the military. The infrastructure operating in GEO provides communications, navigation and other critical services that billions of people rely on. It is well known that China and Russia are now launching spacecraft capable of approaching, inspecting and potentially interfering with other satellites. Based on the flight proven MicroGEO platform Astranis is already flying on orbit today, Perceptor brings monitoring and maneuverability to GEO and other high orbits. When an unfamiliar object begins maneuvering near a critical asset, operators need more than a dot on a screen. They need eyes in the sky they can rely on. Satellites in GEO operate across an enormous area nearly 36,000 kilometers up, that encompasses the entire Earth. Ground-based systems can’t provide the persistent, close-range awareness needed to understand exactly what another spacecraft is doing or why it may be maneuvering near a critical asset. As humanity expands outward from LEO and builds out the infrastructure layer higher up, it needs safety and security in place to protect it. That's why Astranis has answered the call. Ad astra per aspera.

The last 10 years have been incredible for space. But I believe the most important and exciting decade is the one still ahead of us. Here's a glimpse of what comes next.

Turns out I am ok with this

God I love this. Blake is the re-industrialization of America personified