Charles Beames
Contributor at Forbes
Aerospace Investor | Chairman of @YorkSpaceSystem, @SpiderOak, @TrustPointGPS, & SSA Former | President Vulcan Aerospace & Pentagon Official (Space & Intel)
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Charles Beames
There are moments in the modern space era that compel all of us to stop and reassess their place in the new Space Race. When Paul Allen and Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne became the first privately built vehicle to reach space twice in two weeks, it signaled the dawn of a new commercial spaceflight era. When Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket proved reusability at scale, it revolutionized launch economics and unlocked unprecedented access to orbit.
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1 month ago |
upcontent.link | Charles Beames
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Charles Beames
What began as an MIT graduate’s pandemic project – a simple curiosity-driven experiment – may be the wake-up call that pushes the space community to take artificial intelligence (AI) seriously. At least, it should be. The New York Times recently spotlighted Corey Jaskolski, an MIT-trained AI graduate, whose lockdown musings turned into a breakthrough with serious national security implications.
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2 months ago |
breakingdefense.com | Charles Beames |Alyssa Schonhaut
There is no leadership principle more universally recognized and validated than this: “You get what you reward.” Whether training service dogs at New Skete Monastery or deploying an “Iron Dome” missile defense system in orbit, the key to success is the same: Incentivize the right behaviors and, just as crucially, refuse to reward the wrong ones. Yet, when it comes to urgent national security needs, Washington’s default response follows an all-too-familiar script.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
forbes.com | Charles Beames
Today’s space sector is at an inflection point, poised to capitalize on the tech sector’s gains from cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Just a decade ago, the space economy was dominated by large, school bus-sized satellites. These billion-dollar workhorses served military, intelligence, and civil agencies well for decades, with slow improvements made to their subsystems.
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