00:00june 23rd 2026 bengaluru india the heads of 11 space agencies sit down at the same table
00:09india china russia brazil south africa egypt ethiopia indonesia iran the united arab emirates
00:1711 nations nearly half the world's population in one room and they are talking about satellites
00:24now you might think space agencies meet all the time this happens but here is what doesn't happen
00:30every day one of those countries at the table iran is under active u.s sanctions american law is clear
00:39no one shares technology with them and yet there they were sitting inside a framework that pulls
00:47satellite imagery from china's gaofen constellation india's resource set and russia's kanupu series
00:54data shared no dollars exchanged no washington permission slip required that's the image i want
01:02you to hold in your mind because this video is about one question when bricks built something in space
01:09what exactly is it building on the ground let's get the basics down fast brick started as an
01:16economic acronym in 2001 for years it was mostly a photo opportunity but between 2022 and 2025 something
01:25shifted the block expanded to 11 members and started building real physical alternatives we have analyzed
01:33this shift before looking at the new development bank the alternative to the imf but now in june 2026
01:40we are seeing the birth of a shared space program india as the rotating chair called the summit in
01:48bengaluru its science capital the official name is hosa heads of space agencies the goal a permanent
01:57brick space council and a shared network called the rssc remote sensing satellite constellation
02:06so what exactly is the rssc instead of building a new expensive station they have done something
02:14smarter they created a virtual constellation to understand this you have to understand the cost of
02:20entry building a global satellite network usually costs billions and takes decades but the bricks found a
02:30shortcut india's resource sat monitors land use china's galvan provides world-class high-resolution imagery
02:38russia's canopus office wide area earth observation alone they're powerful together they are a virtual
02:47shield they aren't launching one new giant satellite they are plugging in their existing ones into a shared brain
02:56it's an engineering hack that creates a superpower level infrastructure overnight with zero new capital
03:02expenditure and for the new members this is a game changer take ethiopia they aren't just guests
03:09at the table edis abeba is home to the and total observatory the only astronomical research center in east
03:19africa but for years ethiopia had to rely on western data often expensive or restricted to predict droughts
03:27in bengaluru the ethiopian delegation was clear they need the rssc to manage disaster risks and famine
03:35without the political strings often attached to western aid packages in brazil the mission is sovereignty over
03:44the amazon forests while western ngo's often use satellite data to pressure brazilian policy
03:52the rssc gives brazilia its own independent eye in the sky verified by brics partners not washington
04:02aligned agencies in indonesia it's about survival in the ring of fire using chinese and russian high
04:10frequency imagery to monitor seismic activity in real time but the real glitch in the system for
04:16washington is iran the rssc gives tehran access to high resolution earth observation data that u.s
04:25sanctions were specifically designed to block russia's ross cosmos director general yuri barisov was blunt he
04:33called it a technological alliance designed to be better than going it alone china went even further
04:41explicitly framing this cooperation as an alternative to unilateral sanctions that's not a diplomatic sleep
04:49it's a declaration of independence if this analysis had brought some clarity to the shifting global
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05:21new world together here is the layer most commentary is missing this is not just a story about satellites
05:29it's about building a parallel civilization scale infrastructure look at the pattern number one
05:36the new development bank an alternative to the imf number two the enbridge project an alternative to swift
05:45for payments number three the rssc an alternative to western controlled satellite data each piece reduces western
05:57leverage bricks is building a world where satellite imagery doesn't require a us license where
06:04payments don't require swift and where infrastructure loans don't require imf conditionality
06:12domain by domain the washington permission slip is being burned but there is a massive complication
06:20india is the host india proposed the space council but india still depends on nasa for deep space
06:28communications think about this india can monitor the earth with its brics partners but if it wants to
06:37talk to a probe on mars or the moon it often has to use the nasa deep space network if
06:43washington flipped the
06:45switch today india's most ambitious deep space missions would go silent this is the ultimate
06:51strategic hedging india is building a future with the bricks while keeping a foot in the door with the
06:57west it's a dangerous balancing act and this tension is everywhere the space council still has no finalized
07:06rules we don't know who votes or how conflicts like the border disputes between china and india will affect
07:14data sharing some meetings in bangalore were held behind closed doors rumors suggest heated debates over
07:23data security essentially how much china and india actually trust each other with their most sensitive
07:30orbital assets watch the new daily declaration in september 2026 that is where we will see if this
07:38becomes a binding institution or remains just a powerful but fractured idea let's step back
07:45for decades u.s power ran through a specific toolkit the dollar military primacy and technology experts
07:53controls if washington turned off your access to these systems your country stopped moving brics is mapping
08:00that toolkit and then building around it the rssc virtual constellation is the engineering version of what
08:09m bridge is for finance it's efficient because it uses assets that already exist russia china and india
08:17already have the hardware and space they just plug them together and suddenly 11 nations including sanctioned
08:25ones have a space-based infrastructure that nobody can turn off with a sanctions letter that model is
08:33replicable energy grids communications payment systems brics has found the pattern let's go back to
08:42that room in bangaluru iran's delegate across from india's chinese data flowing to ethiopian teams
08:49brazilian scientists verifying amazon data through russian sensors
08:54it might look like a technical meeting but it's actually the blueprint for parallel world quiet cheap
09:01and increasingly impossible to sanction away the satellites are already in orbit the data is already
09:07flowing the council is just the formal signature on a reality that has already begun as india's union
09:14minister dr jitendra singh concluded in bangaluru the future of the space economy will not be shaped by
09:22nations working in isolation it will be shaped by partnerships shared innovation and collective ambition
09:31bengaluru june 2026 the orbit has changed thanks for watching
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