{"id":23633,"date":"2025-12-11T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/?post_type=rbc_tl&#038;p=23633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:46:48","slug":"space-defence","status":"publish","type":"rbc_tl","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/space-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Space and Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\t\t<div class=\"most-recent-by-taxonomy-jscroll jscroll-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-most-recent-by-taxonomy most-recent-by-taxonomy-is-template-type-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"jscroll-item\" data-post-id=\"23635\">\n\t<article class=\"post-card thought-leadership-template\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/space-defence\/space-is-once-again-becoming-a-geopolitical-contest\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Space-Blog-Stackhouse-and-Morrison-Image_Banner-wide.jpg?quality=80\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Space is \u201conce again becoming a geopolitical contest\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Space-Blog-Stackhouse-and-Morrison-Image_Banner-wide.jpg 7250w, https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Space-Blog-Stackhouse-and-Morrison-Image_Banner-wide.jpg?resize=300,145 300w, https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Space-Blog-Stackhouse-and-Morrison-Image_Banner-wide.jpg?resize=768,371 768w, 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