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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 16h

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...

Rapid Space Commerce | The Space Policy Show Ep.160

What is the role of government when it comes to enabling and protecting the business of space? How do regulations keep up (or not) with innovation? To what degree is Space Situational Awareness…

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 17h

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...

Space Operations: The Final Frontier

Podcast Episode · From the Crows' Nest · 09/10/2025 · 46m

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 22h

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...

Inside Galileo HAS: A new era of free high-precision GNSS - GPS World

Developed by the European Union, Galileo is an independent, global, satellite-based navigation system that provides a range of services.

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 1d

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

“In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard.”…

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 4d

The real space war is being fought in cyberspace

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 4d

HEO looks to expand satellite imaging beyond low Earth orbit

An Australian company that is a leader in taking images of spacecraft in low Earth orbit wants to widen its aperture to monitor higher orbits and beyond.

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 5d

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:
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Hard Then, Harder Now: CoCom’s Lessons and the Challenge of Crafting Effective Export Controls Against China - Texas National Security Review

Will the US-led technology control regime against China have a meaningful impact on the emerging great power competition? Supporters praise the effort’s targeted approach and optimistically see the…

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 6d

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

The Space Review: The economic reality of lunar competition: beyond the space race rhetoric

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy’s recent declaration that “we are going to beat the Chinese to the Moon” captures the political zeitgeist perfectly. But buried within his own remarks lies a more…

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Satellite operators seek help from ITU to improve coordination for space safety

Satellite operators are asking an international regulator to help maintain lines of communication among them to deal with potential conjunctions.

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 6d

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

"[O]n the ops floor, [ATLAS is] generating a catalog — it's publishing data to Space-track.org They're using that as a primary system," Space Systems Command's Shannon Pallone said in an exclusive…

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 8d

China's Geovis Insighter Technology to launch SSA constellation

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 9d

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