Blue Origin — New Glenn / Project Sunrise
Orbital compute competitor
[Report #107 — 2026 Space Race] New Glenn heavy-lift + Blue Moon HLS; 'Project Sunrise' files for 51,600 orbital-AI satellites to bypass Earth's grid/cooling. May 28 2026 prelaunch static-fire destroyed a New Glenn; NASA urged a 'whole-of-government response' for the Blue Moon / Artemis timeline. Apex held; manifestation b/c.
Also in The Off-World Substrate
SpaceX — Starshield / MILNETDoD logistics backboneNASA — Artemis + Space Reactor OfficeState apparatus fused with commercialCNSA / Roscosmos — ILRSRival lunar blocISRO + JAXAMultipolar sovereign accessThe Off-World Exemption — Accords / ITARWho writes the carve-outs in spaceThe Physics Null — Thermal BottleneckThe compound-path baseline