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Orbital Estimate

Gene Botkin

A publication for the geopolitics of space and space accessories. orbitest.substack.com

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25 episodes

  1. The Drone War Is Becoming a Spectrum War 25:28
  2. The Best Military AI May Be Built to Disagree 54:30
  3. Israel Is Building the World's First AI-Native Military 26:59
  4. The Moon as Military Terrain 23:11
  5. Poisoning the Machine That Guards the Network 32:51
  6. America’s AI Supremacy Has an Electricity Bill Coming Due 55:32
  7. AI and the Collapse of Strategic Warning 29:33
  8. The Pentagon’s Fixed-Price Space Gamble 22:55
  9. When Satellite Operators Trust the Wrong Algorithm 33:36
  10. When AI Defends the Constellation 23:36
  11. The Undersea Cables Holding the West Together 22:52
  12. The Disposable Air Force 25:39
  13. Space Piracy and the Law of Orbital Interference 28:59
  14. Can Commercial Spaceports Survive Without Government Money? 27:28
  15. Why Every Modern War Depends On Space 29:31
  16. Commercial Space and the Vendor Dependency Trap 37:20
  17. The ChatGPT Command Staff 28:11
  18. The Anti-Satellite Missile Problem 52:02
  19. What if a Space War Started Above Earth? 55:48
  20. Why Every Nation Is Building Its Own GPT 1:02:13
  21. The Paper Tiger Shield 49:57
  22. Blockchain Is the New Financial Battlespace 1:07:48
  23. The Killer Satellite That Never Fires 55:43
  24. The Moon Without Ownership 48:33
  25. China’s Space Program as an Instrument of Grand Strategy 1:35:02