🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Space Space is becoming infrastructure. On September 2, ESA warned that projected satellite demand could exceed Europe’s planned launch capacity by 2030. Arianespace expects roughly nine or ten Ariane 6 launches annually beginning in 2027. Amazon alone has already booked 18 European launches. The bottleneck is changing. Rockets once searched for customers. Soon customers may be searching for rockets. NASA is also pushing Dragonfly deeper into integration. The nuclear powered rotorcraft headed for Titan now contains roughly 17,315 feet of conductor wire and 374 electrical connectors. Dragonfly launches in 2028 and is expected to reach Titan in 2034, where it will fly between organic dunes and ancient impact terrain searching for clues about prebiotic chemistry. Then Saturn surprised us. Hubble has identified a giant ten sided atmospheric wave around the planet’s south pole. The feature appears to have formed recently and extends through multiple la...