There is something wonderfully disarming about using a true-or-false game as the framework for serious conversations about the future of space. This is not a dry economic forecast delivered from a podium, nor is it a talking-head panel where everyone agrees just a little too politely. It is, instead, two people at the top of their professional worlds leaning into a microphone and daring each other to make a call: true or false. That is the spirit at the heart of the Space Minds episode featuring SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss and Novaspace CEO Pacôme Révillon. Gruss is a journalist who has…

Paragraph 1 There are moments in politics when a leader steps up to a podium and decides that enough is enough. That was exactly the mood when Prime Minister Andy Burnham addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 22 September, and in his very first speech to that global gathering, he made a promise that went far beyond diplomatic pleasantries. Burnham announced that the UK would be setting up a brand-new national body tasked with one of the most urgent challenges of our age: tracking and dismantling the disinformation campaigns waged by hostile foreign states. The new…