Paul Struhsaker
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Dystopic: Happy 250th Birthday America - Celebrating 250 Years of Incredible Inventions
July 4, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Happy 250th Birthday America - Celebrating 250 Years of Incredible Inventions! Happy Birthday America 250 Years Strong America The Inventive! Happy 4th of July. I hope you are celebrating it with friends and family, enjoying BBQ, fireworks, and general festivities Despite all the negative news of late, if you are a US citizen, you are one of the luckiest people alive. You had a 4.2% chance of being ‘Born in the USA” and being a part of the most innovative...
READ POSTDystopic US Humiliation – The Iran MOU & Peace Talks
June 22, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter US Humiliation – The Iran MOU & Peace Talks Ebrahim Azizi, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee to Trump: ‘You Threaten, We Act’ (WAMA - West Asia News Agency) Donald Trump started the War with Iran on the premise that a decapitation strike on the leadership would result in Iran’s rapid capitulation. An attack on Iran would flow exactly as it had in Venezuela. War would end in weeks, not months. Of course, the...
READ POSTDystopic: Orbital Data Centers - the Technology Behind the SpaceX IPO Value Proposition
June 9, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Orbital Data Centers - the Technology Behind the SpaceX IPO Value Proposition Orbital Data Center Based on High-Density Modular Compute Tiles (Thales) The SpaceX IPO is a whale, a monster, and the largest IPO on record. According to Investor’s Business Daily, in a June 3 SEC filing, SpaceX (SPCX) is offering 555.555 million shares at $135 per share in its initial public offering, raising $74.4 billion. The IPO is set to take place on Thursday, June 11, with...
READ POSTDystopic: SpaceX Incredible Company - Risky IPO & World Flash Point Update
May 27, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter SpaceX: An Incredible Company with a Risky IPO & World Flash Point Update SpaceX Starship Mission test flight 12, Friday, May 22, 2026 Starbase Texas the first flight of the Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles, the Raptor 3 engines, the first flight from Pad 2, and the first Starship flight to deploy modified Starlink satellites to image Starship in space Welcome back to Dystopic. I took some time off to prepare for my lecture for SmallSat Europe 2026 and a...
READ POSTDystopic: Epic Fury - Political Failure Despite A Military Victory
April 7, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Epic Fury - Political Failure Despite A Military Victory April 7 2026, the US announced a two-week ceasefire and Negotiations with Iran- Will it Hold? On April 8th, 2026, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dan Kane gave a briefing on Operation Epic Fury. Kane listed a series of tactical victories over Iran’s air defenses, missile forces, navy, and military economic infrastructure. Hegseth declared Epic Fury was “historic and...
READ POSTDYSTOPIC- Back to the Moon and More On a Nuclear Iran War Off-Ramp
April 3, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Back to the Moon and More On a Nuclear Iran War Off-Ramp The View of Earth Through the Portal of Artemis II ORION Crew Module on the Way to the Moon (NASA) There has been some incredible news out of NASA this week: On March 24th, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced NASA’s accelerated “Ignition” directive prioritizing rapid, sustainable lunar surface operations based on a 3-phase 7-year plan. On April 1st, the first down payment on the plan, Artemis...
READ POSTDystopic Ending the Iran War – The Nuclear Off Ramp Option
March 24, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Ending the Iran War – The Nuclear Off Ramp Option F-35 Lightning testing B61-12 tactical nuclear gravity bomb (Los Alamos National Laboratory) The headline in the Saturday, March 21st edition of the Wall Street Journal proclaimed: Iran Believes It’s Winning—and Wants a Steep Price to End the War Sorry, Iran, you are sadly mistaken. That is never going to happen. The US always has at its disposal tactical nuclear weapons that are ideally suited to permanently...
READ POSTDystopic Epic Fury Exposes Complete Failure of Russian and Chinese Air Defense Systems
March 10, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Epic Fury Exposes Complete Failure of Russian and Chinese Air Defense Systems S400 Russian long-range Air Defense system destroyed by Ukraine (Kyiv Post). A series of equally destructive strikes has decimated Iran’s Russian S300 and Chinese HQ9 air defense missile systems. Introduction - It’s All About Air Superseniority By the time this Dystopic newsletter is published, EPIC FURY, the joint campaign by the US and Israel against Iran, will be in its second...
READ POSTDystopic Protecting Small Satellites in Contested Space - a Video Lecture from the Small Satellite Symposium
February 14, 2026 Dystopic Newsletter Protecting Small Satellites in Contested Space - a Video Lecture from the Small Satellite Symposium Paul Struhsaker Delivers a Technology Briefing Lecture at the Small Satellite Symposium 2026 The Small Satellite Symposium was held this week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This annual confab brings together the space communities' thought leaders in technology, finance, legal/regulatory, launch, and satellite constellation...
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