Orbital Security in a Commercial Era

The question is not whether commercial space will be strategic. It is how public institutions adapt when the key assets are operated through increasingly complex private networks.

The important question is not whether the system is changing, but which assumptions remain useful while it does.

The research archive is intentionally text-first. External references are linked rather than stored, preserving fast reads and modest database costs while keeping every source legible to the reader.

That constraint is not an aesthetic compromise. It is a discipline: preserve the argument, the date, the relevant model, and the source path.