Pork chops, goat cheese polenta, and roasted parsnips

Chinese Space Station Crew Safely Home After Swapping Capsules

Pasta alla carbonara, Roman style

Reminder to join us live tomorrow either in DC or online for a debate about whether or not to repeal the Wolf Amendment! spi.elliott.gwu.edu/2025/10/30/t...

Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged

The staging orbit for ESCAPADE is an amazing piece of astro wizardry and also a perfect example of why Lagrange points are not actual points arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

OTD - November 9 1979, computers at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) site at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado detect a massive inbound strike by Soviet missiles. With only minutes to react, interceptor aircraft are scrambled, ICBM forces are told to prepare for a

Lemon-ginger Poached Halibut with soba noodles

I am still on my quixotic quest to get everyone to use "Really Large Lagrange Regions" instead of the extremely misleading "Lagrange Points", but that's going about as well as my similar quest against "zero gravity" spacenews.com/why-the-u-s-...

Are you a graduate student looking for a summer internship in #spacepolicy or strategic foresight? We have openings at Aerospace Center for Space Policy and Strategy! Apply here: talent.aerospace.org/careers?pid=...

Space junk may have struck a Chinese crew ship in low-Earth orbit arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

What Will International Partnerships Look Like Post-International Space Station? - Aerospace Security

In historic shift, ESA poised to take on defense role - Breaking Defense

A reminder that The Hunt for Red October is the best movie about academic book reviewing ever made

Iridium unveils global GPS device protection on a chip - GPS World

Commercial non-Earth imaging is a game changer

Grilled ribeye with fries, asparagus, and bearnasie sauce

Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

Good overview of the new NIST password guidelines, which are a big improvement over past recommendations proton.me/blog/nist-pa...

Airbus, Leonardo and Thales agree to combine space businesses

It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Really great work looking at overconfidence among national security officials and the incentives that drive it tnsr.org/2025/09/the-...

I was asked to define innovation today. Among other things, I said innovation (as opposed to mere idea-generation) has to generate value (e.g., economic, social, aesthetic, etc). So much of what is labeled “innovation” just extracts and reallocates existing value without generating new value.

Blinded by the Light: Strategic Levers to Reclaim Europe’s Industrial Edge in Space - ESPI

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

Some interesting history on secret US space stuff landing in other countries www.thespacereview.com/article/5079/1

Export Controls and U.S. Trade Policy: Making Sense of the New Terrain www.justsecurity.org/121725/expor...

An amazing set of young professionals in the space industry, including my colleague Katie Melbourne and CSPS alum Vicky Woodburn! payloadspace.com/category/pay...

Four AI Policy Choices Policymakers Can’t Afford to Get Wrong

Catch the latest Space Policy Show for a great discussion on the past, present, and future of the Office of Space Commerce www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtKW...

ICYMI, here's me on the From the Crow's Nest podcast talking about space integration into modern military operations and armed conflicts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A good overview of the plans for Galileo's High Accuracy Service, which aims to provide 20-40cm location information globally www.gpsworld.com/inside-galil...

Excellent new research on a Chinese company's effort to help develop independent Chinese SSA capabilities www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display...

Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half

Made Kenji's best chili ever, and it was indeed

The real space war is being fought in cyberspace

HEO looks to expand satellite imaging beyond low Earth orbit

A very meaty analysis of whether export controls are a realistic tool in great power competition. This line captures it best - "Coordinating export controls and denying sensitive technology to a superpower rival was hard [in the Cold War]; it will be harder now: tnsr.org/2025/09/hard...

New paper (in which I played a small role) that looks at using norms of behavior to address gaps in cislunar orbital debris mitigation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting piece on the potential economic downsides of framing Artemis as a race

Outstanding panel put together and capably run by my colleague Audrey Allison on improving global coordination between satellite operators to avoid collisions: spacenews.com/satellite-op...

Space Force declares ATLAS space domain awareness software 'operational' - Breaking Defense

China's Geovis Insighter Technology to launch SSA constellation

Germany cites Russian "stalking" satellites as reason for investing $40B in national security space, including potential offensive counterspace capabilities arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

I big old pile of Korean chicken wings!

Rack of lamb with lentils and spinach!

NASA modifies Dream Chaser ISS cargo contract as Sierra Space shifts to defense work spacenews.com/nasa-modifie...

In a first, Space Force to require refueling capability for next-gen neighborhood watch sats - Breaking Defense

Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

Space Force Wants to Maneuver in Orbit. Now It Must Choose How www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...