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💥 Emmanuel Macron backs Eutelsat. UK sidelined. Germany quiet. Italy sulking.

🇫🇷 France just injected €717M into Eutelsat, pushing its stake to nearly 30% and sending a clear message: Paris wants to lead Europe's space future—whether others like it or not.

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Macron's Space Play: France, Eutelsat, and the Future of European Connectivity
Macron's Visit to ESA Signals France's Space Ambitions
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June 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Nukes, space, and the shaky lines between deterrence and disaster.

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🙏 Thank you, Jessica West, for dropping truth in the timeline.
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Dr. Strangelove in Orbit: Lessons Still Unlearned
Why is one of the clearest red lines in Space being openly debated again?
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June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Starlink vs. Kuiper. When national security is at stake, should you go with the cheapest option?

Mani Thiru (ex-AWS, all-around space badass) is the first guest writer for The Space Republic and she delivers.

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Starlink’s Dominance: Beyond Technology, a Question of Control
by Mani Thiru
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June 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ESA and Canada are holding hands while NASA ghosts the Artemis group chat. Europe needs cash. Canada wants a Moon ride. We break down who's spending what, who's bluffing, and whether anyone can afford to stay on the Moon without the U.S.

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ESA Courts Canada as Artemis Wobbles
With Artemis in limbo, ESA and CSA explore a plan B—assuming someone can foot the bill
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June 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Jared Isaacman’s failed NASA nomination was a strange episode—part theater, part symptom of something deeper.

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Why Jared Isaacman’s NASA Nomination Was Always Doomed
NASA, Mars, and the “Best and Brightest” That Never Landed
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June 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Lunar helium-3 🚀
The “fuel of the future”? Maybe.
But right now it’s more like nuclear-grade cocaine—if we’re talking price, not vibes—Market potential vs. marketing myth, the sketchy concept on "abundance," and why the Moon may not be the Klondike we’re selling.

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Lunar helium-3: separating market from marketing
Lunar helium-3: separating market from marketing
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June 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Jared Isaacman is out as potential NASA Admin.

Not surprising—his hearing was all surface, no structure.

Also part of a bigger picture: the White House has clearly started stepping back from Elon Musk.

So... who’s next?
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Doing the "Near-Impossible": Isaacman’s NASA Hearing and the Future of Artemis
Rhetoric, vision, and ambiguities of Jared Isaacman's confirmation hearing.
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June 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM