by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Jul 11, 2025 | Space Industry
By Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman Sometimes, the most important stories unfold right before our eyes—but an exciting distraction keeps us from noticing. As Starlink and Amazon Kuiper launch thousands of satellites into orbit to form expansive constellations, it’s easy...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Mar 30, 2025 | Book Reviews
It’s a simple question, dramatized in countless books and movies: How should human beings treat extraterrestrial aliens upon contact? Should we assume that they are hostile and attack? Should we “come in peace” like so many sci-fi heroes? Professor Michael Bohlander,...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Mar 23, 2025 | Law Enforcement
As authors of a book about space piracy, we’ve run into our share of polite scoffers who express incredulity that criminals could ever afford to get into space. Our response has been, “They’ll steal what they need, like airplane hijackers.” As events have shown, it’s...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Dec 15, 2024 | Space Piracy
Thinking about piracy in space means building scenarios and then subjecting them to reality checks. It helps to go for extremes and come up with outlandish ideas. You can always bring them back down to earth, so to speak. In our exploration of the potential for space...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Sep 19, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Space Piracy
The simultaneous explosions of thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon offers a great example of a stealth supply chain attack that few could have ever predicted. It’s a reminder that a determined adversary can be extremely imaginative in...
