Anduril launched a satellite this week, forcing a last-minute rebuild of Not Boring's 206th Weekly Dose of Optimism. That single detail tells you everything about the current pace: defense-tech firms are now moving fast enough to break newsletter production schedules.
The issue covers a dense spread of developments across energy, defense, and infrastructure. The anchor piece is Chapter 3 of the Base Power Company story, a serialized deep-dive into how distributed power infrastructure gets built from the ground up. That series is worth tracking if you care about where grid-edge energy is actually going, not where pundits say it is.
The Anduril satellite announcement is the thread to pull. A defense contractor with a software-first model putting hardware in orbit signals a convergence of autonomy, ISR, and space access that has direct implications for how future conflict gets waged and how fast the prime contractor model continues to erode. Read the full issue for the surrounding context.
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