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This is a really great headline about a really great annual report that Secure World Foundation publishes each year. The 2026 "Counterspace Capabilities" report gives a country by country breakdown of what technologies are in space or being developed, to protect one's own satellites and attack or interfere with adversary's satellites. Australia is in there, as we have strengths in electronic warfare in particular. My work focuses on security, stability and strategic restraint in space. For example, I feel very strongly about the use of the term "warfighting domain" when describing how space is used by militaires. This is not because I think militaires shouldn't be operating in space. Nor do I think space shouldn't be used for supporting terrestrial warfare. Space is a key domain for security and defence, and we need to protect the satellites that we all depend on. It's because this term has escalatory effects, and destabilises international space security discussions. The US is the only country in the world to officially call space a "warfighting domain" in its strategies and doctrine. NATO debated whether to adopt this in 2019, and came to the conclusion that all desired effects can be achieved in, through, to and from space, including deterrence, defensive and offensive space operations, without adopting a term that is geopolitically escalatory. NATO decided to call space an "operational domain". This is what all the CSpO countries use as well, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Norway as well as the NATO countries. China calls out the US at every opportunity it can for being the aggressor in space because of this terminology and narrative. Words matter. China and Russia and their supporters use this to justify cranking up their own counterspace capabilities, and an escalatory cycle ensues. If others start to use this language it will contribute further to this cycle, and will indicate alignment with the US, which is otherwise an outlier. Right now, Western countries are carefully considering when to align with the US, and when strategic autonomy is needed. Nomenclature and terminology matter a great deal in these decisions. What strikes me in this Counterspace Capabilities report, is that all of these countries, including India, continue to develop what they need in order to protect their space- based technologies and national interests, without needing to adopt "warfighting domain" in their outward facing communications. Everybody wants a space plane, everybody understands space is a critical domain, but everybody also understands that de-escalation and stability are what will serve national and international security, and that words matter in this. Congratulations Victoria Samson and Kathleen Brett on this exceptional annual report. https://lnkd.in/efstFZgz

Major Tom was isolated out there in space. And Ground Control could only occasionally check in on him. The result? Drift. Disconnection. “The Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do.” Thanks Bowie. That’s not just poetry. It’s a systems problem. And it’s about to get worse. As missions push beyond low Earth orbit, latency kills real-time support. No instant check-ins. No quiet “are you okay?” from the ground. Just distance, pressure, and a very human brain trying to cope. Who’s the psychologist when Earth is 20 minutes away? Tricia Larmond at SarNöva Technologies has a sharp answer. Her software continuously monitors stress indicators and physiological signals while astronauts work. Think of it as an onboard psychologist—flagging risk early and nudging interventions in real time: breathing protocols, cognitive resets, enforced pauses. Not therapy as an afterthought, but regulation built into the mission architecture. At Spaceinterface , this is precisely the sort of tech we like: not more hardware for hardware’s sake, but systems designed around human limits, anticipating breakdown before it happens, and quietly steering people back from the edge. Because in deep space, resilience isn’t a personality trait. It’s infrastructure. Can you hear me Major Tom, can you-? #SpacePsychology #HumanSpaceflight #DeepSpace #SpaceTech