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Dystopic - The State of the Military and Commercial Space Industry: Silicon Valley Space Week
November 5, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The State of the Military and Commercial Space Industry: Silicon Valley Space Week SVSW – Silicon Valley Space Week – Tech Brief: Golden Dome Technology Challenges (P. Struhsaker) Last Week was one of my favorite weeks of the year: Silicon Valley Space Week- SVSW. The space industry confab that covers both space innovation and military space applications in two combined symposiums: Satellite Innovation MilSat Symposium I was fortunate to be invited to...
READ POSTDystopic - Tomahawk Diplomacy
10/23/2025 Dystopic Newsletter Tomahawk Diplomacy The Typhon medium-range Tomahawk cruise missile ground-based system deployed by US Army and Marine Corps (US ARMY) It has been a brutal summer campaign for Russia in 2025. Per the Economist, for a gain of less than 0.4% of Ukraine, Russia has suffered at least 100,000 killed in action and likely 2.5 to 3 times that number injured. Despite their lack of manpower, Ukraine’s defense is holding. AI drone swarming technology, the latest innovation...
READ POSTDystopic - Golden Dome Space-Based Interceptors - the most critical system component
October 12, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Dystopic Golden Dome Space-Based Interceptors - the most critical system component Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Space-Based Interceptor (Raytheon) Golden Dome: What We Have Learned So Far in Parts 1 and 2 of The Series Before we begin our final installment of our Dystopic Newsletter series on the Golden Dome space-based missile defense, let’s review what we have covered so far in our first two Installments. First of all, why did President Trump instruct the...
READ POSTDystopic - Red Alert - The New US Space-Based Early Warning System - PWSA
September 28, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Red Alert - The New US Space-Based Early Warning System - PWSA Artist concept of PWSA Tracking Layer Satellites using optical communications links (Lockheed Martin) The New US Space-Based Early Warning System: PWSA -Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture As we previously discussed in the first in a series of newsletters on the technology behind the proposed Golden Dome system, the proliferation of new extended-range cruise missiles and hypersonic...
READ POSTDystopic: Space-Based Missile Defense: An Introduction to the Golden Dome Project
September 7, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Space-Based Missile Defense: An Introduction to the Golden Dome Project Artist Concept of Golden Dome Space-Based Missile Defense (L3 Harris) Until the last decade, the US stood as the sole superpower. At that time, China had fewer nuclear weapons than either the UK or France. North Korea had a limited nuclear arsenal and lacked an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US. The New START Treaty limited the U.S. and Russia to...
READ POSTDystopic: Finally Success - SpaceX Starship Flight 10
August 31, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Finally Success - SpaceX Starship Flight 10 Starship Flight 10 splashdown of the STARSHIP (upper stage) within ~3 meters from its intended flight target, August 26, 2025 (SpaceX) For SpaceX and its ambitious Starship program, the 10th time is the charm. It could not have come too soon! SpaceX, known for its “fail fast” test and development philosophy, had racked up nine failed test flights prior to its 10th. The Starship development program has had some...
READ POSTDystopic Putin – Playing for time by Playing the Western Allies
August 23, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Putin – Playing for time by Playing the Western Allies Putin observing B-2 Bomber flyover escorted by F-35 Lightning fighters at Putin -Trump Summit, August 15, 2025 (source: US DoD and Department of State) Book Update: The 5-Star reviews keep coming in - How The Hell Did We Get Here? is answering readers questions about securing peace in our chaotic world. Find out more HERE Now back to tis week's Dystopic ... After all the pomp and circumstance, beginning...
READ POSTDystopic - The Atomic Bomb 80 years later and A Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
August 9, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The Atomic Bomb 80 years later and A Nuclear Reactor on the Moon General view of Hiroshima, Japan as seen from the vicinity of 'zero’ – Army Air Force Archive 80 years ago, the Manhattan Project gathered some of the world's greatest physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers to create the world's first working atomic bomb (nuclear fission weapon). It had taken less than 3 years, starting in June 1942, to get to the point of having two functional...
READ POSTDystopic - US Nuclear Saber Rattling – Russia’s turn to be threatened & DEW (Directed Energy Weapons) in Golden Dome Missile Defense
August 3, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter US Nuclear Saber Rattling – Russia’s turn to be threatened & DEW (Directed Energy Weapons) in Golden Dome Missile Defense Test of U.S. Navy submarine launch Tomahawk missile -Naval Air Systems Command After three years of listening to Vladimir Putin's “saber rattle” about the use of nuclear weapons against the West if they intervene in the Ukraine-Russia War, the Trump administration rattled its own nuclear saber, in reply to some highly inflammatory social...
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