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Aug 18, 2025
A quiet revolution is underway, led from Lower Earth Orbit
Teardown dissects the most critical companies in today’s deep tech ecosystem—one stack at a time. This edition features Skyryse, the L.A.-based aviation company behind SkyOS, the first universal operating system for flight. With a backlog that spans military, EMS, and law enforcement, Skyryse is reshaping how America trains pilots, automates airframes, and scales vertical mobility—with FAA certification on the horizon.
Aug 12, 2025
Intel and the sovereign foundries; a forward-deployed VC; distributed datacenters, and more.
Aug 4, 2025
The U.S. can’t build without China. From rare earths to battery metals, America’s supply chain runs through geopolitical fault lines. This edition maps the mineral dependencies we don’t talk about—and what it would take to mine our way out.
Jul 28, 2025
Everyone’s talking about AI policy. Few are asking who’s actually implementing it. This edition traces how America outsourced its digital backbone, why today’s “whole-of-government” plans lack teeth—and what it would take to rewire the system from the ground up.
Jul 21, 2025
Teardown dissects the most critical companies in today’s deep tech ecosystem—one stack at a time. This edition spotlights Space Capital, the sector-focused VC backing space-based infrastructure across GPS, communications, and orbital technology, with $430M+ in AUM and more than a decade of domain expertise.
In 1969, we landed on the Moon with slide rules and soldering irons. Today, we can’t build our own rocket engines. This edition unpacks how America lost its edge in hard tech—and why rebuilding that capacity is our real moonshot.
Jul 14, 2025
America once built the future—now it buys it. This edition breaks down the U.S. deep tech dilemma: why the supply chain is brittle, capital risk-averse, and talent fleeing. We dig into what it'll take to build again—and why time’s running out.
Jul 7, 2025
Everyone’s heard of hypersonics. Few understand them. It’s time to fix that.Once a Cold War fantasy, hypersonics are now a Pentagon priority. This issue of Per Aspera cuts through the hype—what the science says, why it matters, and how the U.S. can close the gap.
Everyone’s heard of hypersonics. Few understand them. It’s time to fix that.