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Recent newsletter links and Astranis

December 15, 2025 Fudge Factor

Once upon a time, my blog was ridiculed by prolific peers as being a vacant wasteland until my end of year post. That was true then.

Times change. This is not that end of year post but is a list of newsletter links that are “Fudge Factor” approved and adds another company to the list of companies to watch.

European Space Agency (ESA)

  • How satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks
  • ESA 2025 Highlights

Delightfully Space Related (via The Crux Weekly)

  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and DIY polarimetric SAR drone
  • Locate the ISS using DNS
  • CRASH (Collision Realization And Significant Harm) Clock
  • “An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions” by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler

Somewhat Space Related (via Sentiers)

  • Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy for 10 Seconds vs 10 Hours
  • China takes drone display world record with ~16,000 drones

The Astranis timeline so far

  • 2018 - $13.5M Series A
  • 2020 - $90M Series B
  • 2021 - $250M Series C
  • 2025 - Dedicated MicroGEO satellite for Taiwan

  • Previous: Off-world Tropes and Devices

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Related Reading

  • Off-world Tropes and Devices
  • Orbital Compute Baseline
  • The Era of Orbital Edge Datacenters

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