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Episode 9 — The Next Space Race: Private Companies in Orbit The space race has returned — but it no longer belongs solely to nations. Private aerospace companies are redefining access to orbit through reusable rockets, rapid launch cycles, satellite constellations, and ambitious deep-space plans. In Episode 9 of Quantum Codecast, we explore: • How commercialization is accelerating space innovation • The business model behind reusable launch systems • The shift from national competition to market competition • What this means for global connectivity and future infrastructure Space is transitioning from a symbol of prestige to a strategic industry. The critical question is not whether private companies belong in space, it’s how their involvement will reshape exploration, regulation, and global power dynamics. LINK - https://lnkd.in/gDFuTYec 🎙️ Episode 9 is now live. I’d love to hear your thoughts: Is privatization accelerating progress — or complicating it? #QuantumCodecast #SpaceIndustry #PrivateSpace #AerospaceInnovation #TechnologyLeadership #SpaceEconomy #FutureInfrastructure #STEMEducation

Space Has a Plumbing Problem, and It’s Getting Expensive. Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Rockets function reliably. Satellites roll off assembly lines at scale. Yet the buzz at SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View can’t mask a sobering reality: data gets stuck on the way down. http://ow.ly/N0x0106un6T

Testing the Superfractalon Field: Measuring Radio Photon Birth-to-Arrival with Quantum Entanglement https://lnkd.in/gqiSr29Q #SuperfractalonfieldHypothesis #RadioPhotonExperiment #BoseEinsteinCondensate #QuantumEntanglement We discuss an emergent radio photon experiment designed to verify the superfractalon field hypothesis. We explain how three spacecraft equipped with SQUID detectors will measure the journey of a single, extremely long-wavelength radio photon emitted from a Bose-Einstein condensate. We explore the diluminon particle theory, which exists in a superposition of two velocities around light speed, and how this creates fascinating effects including imaginary backward time travel and apparent hyperluminal quantum entanglement speeds through extreme length compression.

VARIATIONAL INTEGRATORS FOR STOCHASTIC HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS ON LIE GROUPS: PROPERTIES AND CONVERGENCE by François Gay-Balmaz file:///C:/Users/T0004940/Desktop/Bureau/Special%20issue%20Metriplectic/Gay%20Balmaz.pdf Abstract. We derive variational integrators for stochastic Hamiltonian systems on Lie groups using a discrete version of the stochastic Hamiltonian phase space principle. The structure-preserving properties of the resulting scheme, such as symplecticity, preservation of the Lie-Poisson structure, preservation of the coadjoint orbits, and preservation of Casimir functions, are discussed, along with a discrete Noether theorem for subgroup symmetries. We also consider in detail the case of stochastic Hamiltonian systems with advected quantities, studying the associated structure-preserving properties in relation to semidirect product Lie groups. A full convergence proof for the scheme is provided for the case of the Lie group of rotations. Several numerical examples are presented, including simulations of the free rigid body and the heavy top.

At K2 Space, we're Building Bigger to deploy the largest satellites ever on orbit. Over the next few weeks, we'll be highlighting some of the technical challenges behind our upcoming Gravitas mission, and the people leading the solutions. To start the series, we sat down with our CTO, Neel Kunjur, to talk about what it takes to build and fly a spacecraft of this size and power for the first time. As Neel puts it, building at this scale is "an enormous engineering challenge… not only are there 50 new systems you have to invent, but the physics are extremely unforgiving." From the gigantic solar arrays to the 20 kW Hall thruster, this mission puts the technologies K2 has developed into their operational environment. Moving from ground test to flight will give our team the data to advance our Mega Class satellite into its next stage. As Neel says, “We believe our job doesn’t stop when we deliver hardware for integration. It ends when the hardware and software are operating reliably in space.”

The Space Tourist Is Dead. Long Live the Orbital Industrialist. Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For the Space Industry Investment and Exit Strategies panel, a clear consensus emerged that the space sector has graduated from a science fair to a serious asset class. No one’s funding technology for technology's sake anymore. Today, capital flows follow what insiders call the barbell market of recurring revenue, defense utility, and the ability to survive. http://ow.ly/obVU106uq3E

Certain orbital slots offer better coverage, lower latency, and strategic advantage. That makes them valuable — and contested. Orbital space is no longer empty. It’s economic territory.

Atombeam, whose innovative technology redefines how data is used, moved, stored, and secured, announced it received an expanded contract from the U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) to improve the data transmission capabilities of Link 16 and Joint Extension Applications Protocol C (JREAP C) over satellites with the company's Neurpac solution. Read More: https://ow.ly/ZXyi50Y9OW0 Atombeam Technologies Space Development Agency #link16 #jreapc #neurpac #spacetech

Not everything in space is transparent. CMSgt Ron Lerch explains how non-Earth imaging reveals the true purpose of previously hidden Chinese satellites, exposing activities that could affect U.S. and allied operations.