Space.
All Remiam work tagged Space — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 19 Oct 2026→
The launch window does not move.
JAXA's MMX mission to the moons of Mars is due to lift off on the evening of 19 October, on a date set by orbital mechanics rather than a project plan. Miss the window and the next one is roughly 26 months away. Most of our installation work runs on the same rule, with smaller numbers.
- 5 Oct 2026→
Heat is the hard part.
On 1 October Google put four of its Trillium TPUs into orbit on a Planet-built satellite, the first step of Project Suncatcher. The chips had already passed their radiation tests on the ground. The open question is the one we meet on every enclosure we build: where does the heat go.
- 30 Sept 2026→
The uplink was always the bottleneck.
On 28 September Starship reached orbit for the first time and released 26 Starlink V3 satellites, each with 22 times the uplink capacity of the generation before. Most connectivity is built for watching. The systems we put on site spend their day sending, and that is the number that has been holding them back.
- 21 Sept 2026→
Placement is the whole product.
Rocket Lab put Synspective's twelfth radar satellite into an exact 572km orbit on 18 September, its 96th Electron flight and its seventeenth of 2026. A shared ride would have been cheaper and would have broken the thing the constellation sells.
- 7 Sept 2026→
Most of the push is borrowed.
On 30 September, ESA's Juice spacecraft swings past Earth to steal a little of the planet's momentum on its way to Jupiter. It carries over three tonnes of propellant and still cannot get there on its own. That trade, less fuel in exchange for a hard appointment, is one we make in software every week.
- 26 Aug 2026→
You cannot patch a telescope.
On 21 August a 43-foot fairing closed around the Roman Space Telescope and the design stopped being editable. Most systems have a moment like that. Software teams rarely name theirs, which is why it arrives as a surprise.
- 16 Aug 2026→
The phone is the terminal now
Three more direct-to-device satellites went up on 5 August. The phone in a field worker's pocket is becoming the ground terminal, and that changes what an offline mode has to be.
- 2 Aug 2026→
A ground station burned and nothing missed a beat
A wildfire went through NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on 24 July. Ninety people evacuated, a 70 metre dish went offline, and spacecraft across the solar system carried on talking. The failover was not clever engineering on the day. It was a decision made sixty years earlier.
- 26 Jul 2026→
Flight 13 carried something real
Starship's thirteenth test flight put 20 working Starlink V3 satellites into space, relit an engine, and landed the ship intact in the Indian Ocean. The booster came down hard. The interesting change is not the splashdown, it is that the payload was real for the first time.
- 12 Jul 2026→
Reuse is the feature, not the afterthought
On 9 July a single Falcon 9 booster flew for the 36th time, a reuse record. The number is impressive on its own, but the useful part is the discipline behind it, and what it says about building systems designed to be flown again.
- 8 Jul 2026→
Orbit is a shared bus now.
On 7 July a single Falcon 9 carried 81 satellites to orbit on a reused booster flying for the eleventh time. Getting to space used to be a bespoke, once-in-a-programme event. It is now scheduled shared transit, and the shift is a lesson about reuse that applies well beyond rockets.