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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 8

Check out my latest article: The Publicly Readable Orbit linkedin.com/pulse/publicly-… via @LinkedIn What the accidentally-shared S3 bucket teaches us about "accidentally-shared thrust". Developing a simple way to think about orbital security.

Shared Responsibility at Ten Kilometres a Second

What the accidentally-shared S3 bucket teaches us about "accidentally-shared thrust" Developing, for myself, a simple way to think about orbital security. Thinking about how a future "Satellite as a...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 6

Essay on LinkedIn on the commercial opportunity idea for @RocketLab and @IridiumComm for a local AI doctor in a box for remote medical support (ships at sea, astronauts, marine platforms, Antartica ) linkedin.com/pulse/link-doct…

The Link Is Not the Doctor: An ICU in a Box for the Edge of Nowhere

Summary: The fix for remote critical care at the edge is not better crew training, a richer checklist, or more resources: more power with wider bandwidth. It is to move medical intelligence onto the...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 5

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Rocket Lab's European Opportunity in Satellite Security | Lawrence Furnival posted on the topic |...

Rocket Lab may have a real opening in Europe, but perhaps not in the full sovereignty market. The stronger opportunity is in the middle market: security-sensitive, mixed-provenance satellite projects...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 5

a @RocketLab european business opportunity here involving software defined satellites- brought to the forefront by the @IridiumComm purchase— if Rocket Lab can emulate Apple so the platform is significantly more secure and encryption limits what RL can see = ITAR-lite.

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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 5

Check out my latest article: Degrees of Vulnerability in Orbit linkedin.com/pulse/degrees-v… via @LinkedIn Essay on software defined satellites and cybersecurity issues (thoughts provoked by Rocket Lab's Iridium purchase.)

Degrees of Vulnerability in Orbit

Software has been quietly eating satellites for more than a decade, but the recent enthusiasm around “software-defined satellites” marks a more consequential shift than another step in digitization....

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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 4

Rocket Lab Europe and SAAB sitting in a tree? A suggestion: linkedin.com/posts/lawrence-…

Two NATO-Native Space Companies, One Obvious Conversation An open note to Saab engineers Something...

Two NATO-Native Space Companies, One Obvious Conversation An open note to Saab engineers Something quiet but important happened in Munich this April. Rocket Lab closed its acquisition of Mynaric,...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnJul 3

Check out my latest article: The Hidden Prize in Iridium: Trusted Time, Trusted Location, and the Orbital Cybersecurity Mesh linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-pr… via @LinkedIn Rocket Lab’s $8B Iridium acquisition is being framed as a move into communications services but...

The Hidden Prize in Iridium: Trusted Time, Trusted Location, and the Orbital Cybersecurity Mesh

Rocket Lab’s $8B Iridium acquisition is being framed as a move into communications services—but that may miss the deeper story. [Author is retired Associate Director of Information Security at TC,...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 29

Check out my latest article - a call to arms for geeks: Venus, go. linkedin.com/pulse/venus-go-… via @LinkedIn

Venus, go.

My upper body is in tension: it is a tether. My lower body wants to descend the next step, but my cane does not.

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 27

Check out my latest article: Venus, not Earth: Air-breathing satellites will fly first over Venus linkedin.com/pulse/venus-ear… via @LinkedIn

Venus, not Earth: Air-breathing satellites will fly first over Venus

The planet with the hellish atmosphere has the best atmosphere as fuel. [The second of two, continued from Open Letter to Peter Beck.

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 26

Check out my latest article: An open letter to Peter Beck linkedin.com/pulse/open-lett… via @LinkedIn

An open letter to Peter Beck

Of course, every dad remembers the moment when his dad passed. Perhaps he has a new child.

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 24

Check out my latest article: Small Forces, Patiently Applied linkedin.com/pulse/small-for… via @LinkedIn

Small Forces, Patiently Applied

On Rocket Lab, the Gauss thruster, and a hypothesis about why the future of GEO servicing might look like a thousand limpets rather than one very expensive tug* A limpet does not look like a solution...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 24

Check out my latest article: Every Angle at Once linkedin.com/pulse/every-ang… via @LinkedIn

Every Angle at Once

On swarm inspection, distributed sensing, and why the hardest problem in orbital servicing is not docking — it is understanding what you are docking with. Opening There is a moment in every orbital...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 22

Check out my latest article: Harvesting orbital momentum linkedin.com/pulse/harvestin… via @LinkedIn

Harvesting orbital momentum

My sequence of 5 essays on harvesting orbital momentum (addressing Rocket Lab) 1. Momentum Is Not Free 2.

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 22

Check out my latest article: The Long Tether to Venus linkedin.com/pulse/long-teth… via @LinkedIn

4. The Long Tether to Venus

Essay 4 of 4 How MXER infrastructure could change what we do in another planet's sky The first three essays in this series tried to stay close to Earth. I argued that a rotovator deorbit service...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 22

Check out my latest article: Between Orbits: MXER Tethers vs Electric Propulsion Tugs linkedin.com/pulse/between-o… via @LinkedIn

3.5 Between Orbits: MXER Tethers vs Electric Propulsion Tugs

Essay 3.5 of 4 The Core Distinction Two technologies are competing to fill the space between low Earth orbit and the higher-value destinations beyond it: solar-electric propulsion tugs and momentum...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 22

Check out my latest article: From Nice-to-Have to Infrastructure linkedin.com/pulse/from-nice… via @LinkedIn

3. From Nice-to-Have to Infrastructure

Essay 3 of 4 Path to an orbital utility My first essay on momentum tethers asked whether orbital momentum could be treated as inventory rather than waste. The second argued that a rotovator deorbit...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 21

Check out my latest article: Bringing Things down to Earth linkedin.com/pulse/bringing-… via @LinkedIn

2. Bringing Things down to Earth

Essay 2 of 4 A Rotovator as Rocket Lab's First Tether Business - can it pay for itself? I ended my last essay with a question. I argued that orbital momentum is an unpriced asset, that throwing it...

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Lawrence Furnival@furnMay 18

Check out my latest article: Momentum Is Not Free linkedin.com/pulse/momentum-… via @LinkedIn

1. Momentum Is Not Free

Essay 1 of 4 Why Rocket Lab's next business might not be launching rockets Treating velocity as if it were free One of the odd things about reading orbital mechanics as an outsider is how casual the...

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Lawrence Furnival@furn26 May 2024

My recent article: The Challenges for Orbital Data Centers linkedin.com/pulse/challenge… via @LinkedIn

The Challenges for Orbital Data Centers

Executive summary: In the near future, orbital data centers could prove to be an important new revenue stream for launch providers and cloud services. How much does cost of access to low Earth orbit...

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