Daily Archives: Mar 19, 2026

Charles Mitchell

9 Strategic Takeaways from Ukraine’s First Mediterranean Strike on Russia’s Shadow...

"The enemy must understand that Ukraine will not stop, and it will strike them anywhere in the world," those words by a source in the Ukrainian Security Service framed an operation that has redefined the maritime battlespace of the Ukraine-Russia War. For the first time since the full-scale invasion...
Charles Mitchell

9 Strategic Insights from Rocket Lab’s $816M Missile-Defense Satellite Award

Can a commercial space company outpace the legacy defense giants to deliver next-generation missile defense capabilities? Rocket Lab's latest win suggests the answer is yes. The U.S. Space Development Agency has awarded Rocket Lab an $816 million prime contract to design and manufacture 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer...
James Thompson

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Chemical and Galactic Secrets

It is not every day that a comet delivers both a chemical puzzle and a galactic travelogue. Yet 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar object to visit the solar system, has done precisely that. Detected on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, its hyperbolic trajectory...