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Nobody’s coming to save us. After months of careful preparation, we welcome you to the inaugural edition of the Per Aspera newsletter. Thanks for your patience. As you can see, we’ve poured our heart and soul into this, so this had to be done right.
International Space Station
antimemo
There’s been a lot! of noise about space being the “natural” next frontier for data centers. We've been seeing a flood of surface-level commentary on orbital data centers. But very little that digs deep. This antimemo is a step toward greater depth.
What comes next? Seven imperatives for America's Next Space Age. Plus: orbital datacenters, the Renaissance capital stack, and more
A quiet revolution is underway, led from Lower Earth Orbit
teardown
Teardown dissects the most critical companies in today’s deep tech ecosystem—six points at a time. This edition breaks down ANELLO Photonics’ SiPhOGTM, a chip-scale gyroscope leveraging silicon photonics to deliver GPS-free precision navigation across land, air, and sea.
A Renaissance fall.
Intel and the sovereign foundries; a forward-deployed VC; distributed datacenters, and more.
Teardown dissects the most critical firms in today’s deep tech ecosystem—one stack at a time. This edition features Forward Deployed VC, an early-stage investor that marries institutional capital with operator rigor: engineers who’ve shipped code from Kandahar, built hardware under fire, and now back mission‐critical teams bridging national security and emerging tech.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RYAN DUFFY
CREATIVE DIRECTOR JOY SHIN
ADVISOR, RESIDENT INVESTOR JEFF CRUSEY
CHIEF HISTORIAN & FUTURIST DAN GOLDIN
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