Relaying what matters next.
The Relay is a new media project dedicated to covering slightly futuristic domains such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, longevity science, crypto and blockchain, advanced biology, and defense technologies. Our mission is to capture the signals of tomorrow and relay them forward with clarity, depth, and context.
What's happening today?
Space's new middle mile: optical links go multi-orbit
After World Satellite Business Week, operators signaled a pivot: standardized laser links that let LEO, MEO, and GEO networks peer like the internet. The next year is a land‑grab for interoperability, routing, and ground upgrades.
Red Sea intercepts push scaled, layered defenses at sea
Another week, another wave of Red Sea intercepts. Navies are pivoting from scarce missiles to abundant effectors—lasers, guided 30mm, soft-kill EW, and AI fire control. The new limits are power, cooling, and magazine depth.
Solar Max Hits Ops: This Week's Storms Stress-Test LEO Fleets
A burst of geomagnetic storms just turned space weather into an operations problem. Drag jumped, comms hiccupped, and conjunction alerts spiked. Here is the new stack for storm-ready constellations, and why it will be a moat by 2026.
A Single Edit to Cholesterol, A Decade of Risk Reduced
Fresh ESC 2025 readouts on in vivo PCSK9 and Lp(a) gene editing point to durable LDL and Lp(a) cuts after a single infusion. If confirmed, this is the first pay-once, long-horizon risk modifier for healthspan, not just heart disease.
Direct-to-Cell Goes Live: Your Phone Talks to Space
A quiet switch flipped: satellites are now connecting to ordinary phones. New carrier tie-ups and on-orbit demos push 5G and LTE-NTN from text-only pilots to real service tiers, with big implications for rural coverage, disasters, and IoT.