Two ESPI (Vienna) policy briefs, dropped to inbox this cycle
As the brief logged it
Policy Brief 77, "Constellating Compute" (`inbox/ESPI-Brief-77-Constellating-Compute.md`), details China's whole-of-state push into orbital data centres beyond the already-tracked Three-Body/Xingshu pair: CASC formalized ODCs in its 15th five-year plan; Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park ran an ODC funding call (June 2026, ~€644k/project); CAICT stood up a "Space Computing Professional Committee" (April 2026) and CAS a parallel working committee; and new entrants surfaced — Nayuta Space's planned 12,500-satellite "ALAYA" compute constellation and Beijing Orbital Chenguang's €7.4bn debt raise (both announced 2026, no push-eligible date within window). Policy Brief 76, "The Sovereign Threshold" (`inbox/ESPI-Policy-Brief-76-The-sovereign-threshold.md`, published June 2026), maps US/China "responsive space" launch diversification (US Technology Safeguard Agreements with 7 nations; NATO STARLIFT's 14-member roster; France's additional €4.2bn military-space funding through 2030) against Europe's comparatively nascent posture — general doctrine input, no dated event inside any push window. Both logged [INBOX], weak-signal disposition; flagged for retro to fold into the Space-data dossier and BASE RATES rather than treated as standalone news.
Provenance
Logged in the brief of 5 August 2026.
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