Hates the humidity, loves cats. Works on space policy for @SWFoundation, but opinions are mine, not the organization's. She/her
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2026 version is out! We added Germany as our 13th country this year. Check it out 👇
🚀 2026 Global Counterspace Capabilities Report — Now Available
SWF is proud to release the 9th version of its Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment report, edited by @VSamson_DC and Kathleen Brett, with support from Emily Kunasek.
A thread on key updates 🧵
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Free Lyft rides for Halloween in Washington, DC!
We want to make sure that you get to your plans safely. This year, for both Friday and Saturday nights, you can use the SoberRide code from 10AM-4AM.
The code goes live tonight (10/30) at 9PM: soberride.com
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The new National Geographic Museum (17th and M NW) is hosting a Family Day Monday (DCPS is closed).
Normally $30 (adults), $23 (kids over 4), they are advertising $5 tickets but you can try code SCREENINGS112 for free tix
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🌎 Can't make it to Brasília? Join us virtually!
The 8th Summit for Space Sustainability is Nov. 4–5! Connect with global discussions on space security, cooperation, and sustainability from anywhere.
🛰️ Register: swfsummit.org/
#Summit26
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How close did COSMOS 2612 come to ICEYE X36 on Oct. 17? Analysis by @COMSPOC_OPS, shared over social media last weekend and picked up by @NASASpaceflight's “This Week in Spaceflight,” shows an estimated closest approach at about 60 meters, with a relative speed of less than one meter per second. 🛰️
Thank you to NASASpaceflight for highlighting our analysis and for your ongoing efforts to explain satellite behavior in orbit.
Watch the COSMOS-ICEYE segment, starting at 25:10: piped.video/udys8It4_ps?si=6aNr…
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This is a healthy attitude
@NASA chief says if China beats us to #moon, 'I'll be fired', by Rick Neale in @USATODAY eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n… #Lunapolitics 🇺🇸
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"The last two trips into orbit have lasted 276 and 266 days respectively, with this one currently on day 264 at the time of publication. Nothing currently suggests that the ongoing mission will last far longer than those"
China's Reusable Experimental Spacecraft began its fourth mission almost nine months ago and should return to Earth soon, during which the U.S. has released an image of it working in orbit
Details -> china-in-space.com/p/chinas-…
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"[Blue Origin] has only ever launched three orbital missions.
Now it is being called on to spearhead the landing of humans on the Moon. On a rocket that recently blew up. Aboard a lander that doesn’t yet exist. At the 11th hour."
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, and talking to people about a post-Falcon world. Why sunset the world’s best rocket? Can Starship replace it? What about Artemis? Why are SpaceXers flocking to Memphis? Grab a coffee, this is a long one.
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"Victoria Samson, the Secure World Foundation's chief director of space security and stability, told me DIA has been trying for years to pin a date on when China will field its most advanced laser weapons.
"It seems speculative," Samson said."
axios.com/2026/10/29/china-s…
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Welp now they're just saying the quiet part out loud space.com/space-exploration/…
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A federal judge found that an immigration court bond hearing was so egregiously stacked against an ICE detainee that he may simply order the release of ICE detainees, rather than bond hearings, from now on.
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"'We want American companies to be the most competitive,' said one former senior military official who worked in space policy, operations, and acquisitions. Episodes like the Starlink scandal 'create an environment where you make more competitors.'”
defenseone.com/business/2026…
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Excellent write-up and analysis of the ICEYE-36 and Cosmos 2612 RPO by @integrityisr isruniversity.com/2026/10/27…
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🌎 One week until #SWFsummit26
On Nov. 4–5, the global space community will gather in Brasília to discuss space sustainability, security, safety, and international cooperation.
Register Virtually! Join the conversation: swfsummit.org/
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Photos show Ukraine's Starlink was throttled during Russian strike that killed 5 in park
cbsnews.com/news/photos-show…
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Pour one out for India's SPADEX-A and SPADEX-B sats, which conducted docking operations last year: "the fuel was exhausted in both the satellites, their orbits decayed progressively, leading to their eventual atmospheric re-entry on October 12, 2026."
isro.gov.in/SPADEX_Satellite…
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