The Commercial Mask Slips: Space is Now a Sovereign Arms Race

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The polite fiction that the commercial space industry exists primarily for crop yields and climate monitoring has ended. During the symposium’s Future of Geospatial Intelligence session, industry titans stopped pretending their product is intended for sale to NGOs, admitting they are instead building a new global backbone for national defense.

Source: https://news.satnews.com/2026/02/10/the-commercial-mask-slips-space-is-now-a-sovereign-arms-race/