True Anomaly’s Even Rogers on Space Warfare, China’s Military Advantage, and the Defense Tech Boom
Even Rogers, CEO and co-founder of True Anomaly and a former U.S. Air Force space operations officer, breaks down the emerging realities of space warfare and China's growing military edge in orbit. He discusses why commercial dual-use spacecraft cannot survive contested combat environments, how defense procurement must shift to firm-fixed-price contracts to attract top venture talent, and how True Anomaly leverages rapid learning loops and John Boyd's OODA loop to build next-generation defense systems.
- China tested an orbital kinetic space-to-ground weapon in 2024, deploying a satellite munition designed to guide itself through atmospheric re-entry to ground targets. Read →
- Even Rogers argues the commercial dual-use space thesis is broken because civilian spacecraft cannot survive active military engagement in orbit. Read →
- Even Rogers argues the defense capability gap stems from contract design rather than an absence of private capital or engineering talent. Read →
- True Anomaly went head-to-head against Rocket Lab in the Vitis Hayes mission, an operational demonstration of uncooperative space-to-space rendezvous proximity operations. Read →
- Rogers entered the Air Force in 2012 as a 13 Sierra satellite operations officer, identifying a complete lack of operational combat doctrine for space even as China accelerated counter-space weapons. Read →
- True Anomaly designs defense spacecraft from two baseline anchors: orbital battlefield requirements and first-principles physics. Read →