Losing my warships in a land war to a country without a navy is one thing. Losing my aircraft 2000km from a country whose Air Force we’ve destroyed 5 times is quite another. I remain a master strategist.

VCs: “yeah i’ll be in europe for the summer but i’ll still be working” VCs in europe:

#GeospatialReadingClassics. "Air Spy: The Story Of Photo Intelligence In World War II," by Constance Babbington, tells the gripping story of reconnaissance pilots and photographers. It highlights the emergence of tactical and strategic reconnaissance.

PHYSICS IS STILL A THING, DAMMIT. Normally I wouldn't pick on Gen. (ret) Mark Milley & Google (ret) Eric Schmidt, who've done a ton to drag the US military into the 21st century, but their Foreign Affairs piece out today makes a mistake people KEEP MAKING, and I am LOSING IT. /1

This declassified study details how satellite imagery analysis had to become a 24/7 business after the advent of near-real time imaging in 1976. The President began requesting “immediate pictures of targets of interest”

The notion that it’s entirely plausible that Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles are driving around in Russia - after invading Russia this week - breaks my Cold War brain.

“We’re (Sierra Nevada Corporation ) transitioning to larger satellites to get higher levels of capacity. This allows us to integrate AI directly into the processing chain,” meaning that more AI-enabled analysis of RF data can be done in space.”- SpaceNews spacenews.com/snc-scaling-up…

Mapped: The Number of Active Duty Troops in Each U.S. State (2024) 🪖 📲 Want more content like this with daily insights from the world’s top creators? ⁠See it first on the Voronoi. posts.voronoiapp.com/maps/Just-10-S…

Tech Tuesday 💡: Hexagon was equipped with the KH-9 camera system and multiple recovery buckets that contributed to its total weight of over 7,000 lbs! Watch to learn how this system was structured. 👇

Why "AI" is unlikely to help with many current challenges in astrodynamics and tracking space objects spacenews.com/can-ai-detect-…

We’re getting a lot of reps in taxi testing Quarterhorse Mk 1. These repeated runs allow us to gather data on all integrated systems – from the Flight Deck, to the vehicle, to ground support equipment, and air traffic coordination. Medium and high speed taxi runs up next, then

DARPA launches five regional Commercial Accelerators to help advance and facilitate rapid commercialization of early-stage technologies for national and economic security: Capital Factory ⚙️, CIMIT, FedTech, SRI, WirelessResearchNC -- learn more: darpa.mil/news-events/20…

Looking forward to being in NYC next week and the TerraWatch Space EO happy hour on Tuesday. Which other cities should we try and organise the next happy hour networking events in? PS. I mainly want to do this in places where there is a good mix of EO professionals,

#OTD in 1966, the first-ever photo of Earth from the moon was captured by SAMOS, the camera first developed by NRO and later configured for Lunar Orbiter I. SAMOS was transferred to NASA to contribute to the deep space exploration program, paving the way for Project Apollo. 🌑

Thread of hilarious maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. World map according to fish

The National Security Agency is launching a podcast called "No Such Podcast" to tell the agency's history. Info here: nsa.gov/Press-Room/Pre…

As the old saying in DC goes: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

Where matters. A lot. Measure twice drill once. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/que…