Space Economist. Interested in European Integration, industrial policy, innovation, strategic sovereignty, and of course things like launchers, SatCom, EO ... I have another profile focused more on my old interests: Macro, monetary policy and banking.
La compétitivité, seul chemin pour une Europe spatiale souveraine Par Gilles Rabin
La compétitivité, seul chemin pour une Europe spatiale souveraine - Revue Politique et ParlementaireLe bon vieux temps du spatial, avec ses acteurs nationaux auxquels on distribuait tour à tour les contrats pour ne pas privilégier l’un ou l’autre, est révolu.www.revuepolitique.frAn the EU should stand with Canada. But I don't expect much from our side. It is really disappointing how the EU is not able to coordinate a response to Trump's tariffs with our main allies and friends all over the world.
The GuardianTrump has singled out us Canadians for special treatment in his tariff war – there is no choice but to get nasty | Matt Gurney
Interesting piece on China's commercial space sector.
China’s commercial space boom poses strategic challenge for the USResearch warns Washington should be alarmed at military implications of the sector’s rapid expansiongiftarticle.ft.comSuper interesting piece. Another case were expectations (or anticipation) have real effects. "these behaviours can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy in which people choose not to enter a profession, leading to labour shortages or higher costs, “thereby intensifying firms’ incentives to automate”."
If you think your profession is dying, it could soon be goneYounger workers once foresaw the demise of horse-drawn carriages — but anticipating obsolescence can be self-fulfillinggiftarticle.ft.comThe EU has ordered a 24-hour delay in the release of some Copernicus imagery following a request from the US. I think this is a mistake and will only strengthen non-EU actors, especially Chinese EO companies.
EU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of OmanEU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of Omanspacenews.com"The Seoul-listed shares of SK Hynix have now fallen about 45 per cent since hitting a record high above Won3mn ($2,041) in June, wiping about $570bn off its market value and marking one of the world’s steepest declines over the period, second only to SpaceX."
AI stock sell-off deepens as investors dump chipmakersSK Hynix and Samsung shares tumble, pushing South Korea’s Kospi down more than 10%giftarticle.ft.comCompute in space is hard because of radiation and temperature variatons. Could this be a game changer? "Intel has spent the past several years quietly developing a processor for satellites ... The processor is designed for resilient, high-power performance in space." #ODC
Intel debuts new chip for space computingIntel debuts new chip for space computingspacenews.com🚨🚨Important reminder 🚨🚨 Megaconstellations (even without those ridiculous 1mn data center satellites) might have catastrophic consequences for all of us here on Earth.
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warnNew US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destructionwww.theguardian.com"For a vehicle intended to fly again, “not exploding” is not the final objective, but it is an extremely useful intermediate condition." 😂 And yes, I sometimes forget that non-space people don't know this: We are not going to Mars anytime soon. For thousands of unresolved problems.
STARSHIP FLOATED. MARS IS NEXT. APPARENTLY.It is summer. The news cycle is thin, editors are hungry, and Mars is available.www.linkedin.comInteresting piece by Richard Baldwin on Globalisation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/chines...
Chinese Exports Hid Manufacturing's Deglobalisation.China's rising export share masked the rest of the world's decline. By Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, IMD Business School, Lausanne.www.linkedin.comThat guy is mentally unstable and is throwing one tantrum after the other. The arguably two most powerful people in the US right now are completely nuts.
Ron FilipkowskiElon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.
CXMT shares soared more than 500% in their trading debut, making it the most valuable public Chinese company ahead Tencent, worth . This is interesting because it shows again the hype around AI related technology and it also shows the market trying to reduce shortages.
Chinese chip champion CXMT soars more than 500% in market debutTech group becomes China’s most valuable listed company in mainland’s biggest IPO since 2010giftarticle.ft.comWhile we sometimes deride New Shepard astronauts, this is a genuinely moving story. A woman who dreamed of becoming an astronaut her entire life was denied the opportunity simply because she was a woman. Decades later, Jeff Bezos finally helped make that dream a reality.
Wally Funk obituaryPioneering American aviator who was the oldest woman to fly into space aged 82 in 2021www.theguardian.comPLATO is ready for space PLATO stands for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars. The space telescope will use 26 cameras to simultaneously observe hundreds of thousands of stars over long periods of time. The principal objective is to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
PLATO space telescope – electronics ready for spaceThe PLATO mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully completed its electromagnetic compatibility tests – and DLR is playing a key role in the mission.www.dlr.de"Dario is a very principled person, he cares about things a lot ... everyone I've met at Anthropic ... no one set off my evil-detector ... they seem well intentioned." Not sure I would trust the "evil-detector" of the person that comes closest to a typical Bond-villain.
Elon Musk on AI: humans will no longer be in control in ten years | The EconomistYouTube video by The Economistwww.youtube.com