Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 In the space of one week in May 2026, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing hosted two of the most consequential diplomatic encounters of the decade. On 14 and 15 May, United States…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 is simultaneously the foundational legal instrument governing human activity in space and one of the most consequential examples of an arms control framework being overtaken by the military competition…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 When India destroyed its own satellite with a ground-launched interceptor on 27 March 2019, the announcement came not from a defense ministry briefing but from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a nationally televised address. The…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 The international order that emerged from the Cold War’s end has not simply evolved. It has fractured. The assumptions that underpinned three decades of post-1991 global politics — that economic interdependence would moderate great-power rivalry,…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 Every kinetic action in orbit leaves a permanent consequence. Unlike warfare on land, at sea, or in the air — where the physical environment recovers, battlefields are cleared, and the domain returns to something approaching…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 Hypersonic weapons have moved from laboratory programmes and test flights into operational military arsenals faster than most strategic analysts predicted a decade ago. As of 2026, only a small number of countries with operational hypersonic…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 The most consequential attacks on space systems in modern conflict have not involved missiles. They have involved signals. The electromagnetic spectrum that satellites use to communicate with ground stations, relay navigation data to military receivers,…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 The boundary between civilian and military space infrastructure has not blurred. Commercial satellites now sit at the centre of that collapse. The satellite systems that provide communications resilience to frontline forces, deliver near-real-time battlefield imagery…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 The thirty seconds between a ballistic missile launch and the moment a national command authority must decide whether to respond is not a margin for deliberation. It is a margin for survival. The satellite systems…
Analysis · StrikeOrbit | 2026 You cannot defend what you cannot see. In the orbital domain, this principle has consequences that extend far beyond the immediate loss of a satellite or the disruption of a communications link. Space situational awareness…