Thinking on space infrastructure
Notes on the geostationary belt, filings, and moves the status pages miss.
| Date | Post | Tag |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2026 | Two satellite moves that official status pages missed EDRS-C, the second satellite of Europe's laser data relay system, was launched in August 2019 to work at 31°E. Two ESA pages now disagree ab… | Registry 11 min |
| October 22, 2026 | Where the laser relays sit in the geostationary belt EDRS-C, the second satellite of Europe's laser data relay system, was launched to work at 31°E. ESA's EDRS page lists it at 31°E. ESA's spac… | Infrastructure 8 min |
| July 28, 2026 | The FCC's Part 100 Order: The Reform's Biggest Test Case Is Exempt From the Reform The FCC's new Part 100 rules replace decades-old satellite licensing with a faster, presumption-based process, but the megaconstellation fil… | Regulatory 8 min |
| May 27, 2026 | Orbital Data Centers: The Engineering Case Terrestrial data centers face hard physical limits: power constraints, cooling water depletion, grid instability. Orbital data centers offer… | Infrastructure 12 min |
| May 25, 2026 | Designing for Mars A Mars habitat must hold 101 kPa against roughly 0.6 kPa outside, limit radiation toward a 50 mSv/yr threshold in an environment averaging a… | Engineering 9 min |
| May 22, 2026 | The Stack: Every Layer Needed to Become Multiplanetary Earth is one planet orbiting one star. Every extinction risk has a single point of failure. A species on two planets has a backup. Getting t… | Deep Analysis 18 min |
| May 19, 2026 | What the Intelsat Bankruptcy Showed About GEO Slots On May 13, 2020, Intelsat filed for Chapter 11 with $14.8 billion in debt. Through two years of restructuring, its GEO slot portfolio emerge… | Market Intelligence 7 min |