About this publication
poweringspace.com covers power in space: how it is generated, transmitted, stored, and used. This page sets out what we publish, how it is produced, and the standards we hold each piece to.
What we publish
Two kinds of work. Analysis is a daily stream: each piece takes one new item of primary research, a government report, agency release, paper, preprint, grant award or registered trial, and works out what it changes. Standing explainers, organized by generation, transmission, storage, and use, are meant to stay correct for a long time and are revised when the field moves. An analysis is a dated reading of one result at one moment, and we do not quietly rewrite it later.
We also publish a daily Image of the Day. Each image is an artistic imagining, clearly labeled as such, not a photograph of existing hardware.
Where the material comes from
We maintain a research library that ingests continuously from arXiv, the NSF awards database, NASA NTRS, DOE OSTI when available, and other government and first-party sources. Each incoming item is checked for duplicates, summarized and scored for relevance before it can be written about. Every published analysis names the specific record it came from and links to the primary source. A ledger records every source consumed, so a piece that has been covered cannot resurface.
How each piece is produced
Analyses are researched and drafted by an automated research system, a coordinated group of large language models led by a reasoning model working to a fixed editorial brief, and are validated against publication rules before anything goes live. We think readers are entitled to know that, so we are saying it plainly here rather than burying it.
What that process is required to do: retrieve and read the primary source rather than working from a title or abstract; state explicitly, in the article, when a full text could not be obtained, and bound the claims accordingly; separate what a study demonstrates from what it asserts; identify the load-bearing assumption and stress test it; and give the genuine objection alongside the genuine opportunity. Pieces that fail the publication checks are rejected rather than patched into shape.
What it is not: peer review. An analysis is an interpretation of someone else's research by a reader who did not run the experiment. Where our reading is uncertain, the article says so.
Sourcing and citation standards
Every factual claim traces to a named source. References carry a title, venue, date, a resolvable link and the date we accessed it. We do not cite a study we have not opened, we do not reproduce a number we cannot attribute, and we do not use a secondary write up in place of the underlying work.
Corrections
If a piece misstates a result, misattributes work or misreads a source, we want to know and we will correct it. Corrections are made on the page itself and noted there rather than applied silently, because an analysis is dated evidence of what we thought at the time. Send corrections, and any question about how a piece was sourced, to mg@brandadvertisers.com.
Publisher
poweringspace.com is published by Brand Advertisers LLC. It covers power in space: generation, transmission, storage, and use.