Torsten Kriening reviews the joint CSIS-Secure World Foundation briefing on the 2026 space threats landscape, where Kari Bingen, Victoria Samson, Kathleen Brett and Clayton Swope walked through dynamic space operations, the limits of two-line elements, and Golden Dome's trillion-dollar threshold question. The most operationally significant development of the past week, however, came from Greg Gillinger's open-source analysis of Russian Cosmos satellites manoeuvring into co-planar orbits with ICEYE-X36. A European problem.
