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In War What DoD Commercial Satellite Service Providers Need to Think About?
Last month Russia tested an anti-satellite weapons system, ostensibly as a warning to anyone that may wish to assist Ukraine, the U.S., or NATO. So while it’s clear that military satellites could be …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Iridium 33 - A Story for This Moment
This week on The DownLink, Laura Winter speaks with Iridium Communications, Inc. CEO Matt Desch to discuss what he hopes will remain a rare story - the hypersonic bust-up of his company’s satellite i…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
The U.S. National Space Council is Back in Business
This week U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris convened the Biden Administration’s inaugural National Space Council meeting. It had three agenda items: STEM education, to create the future space-based w…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The New Big Deal About Lasers
In this episode of The DownLink podcast, Laura Winter is shedding light on satellite communications over the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It’s called laser communication or optical w…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Russia's ASAT Test, More Than a Satellite Smash-up
This week’s episode take a closer look at Monday’s Russian anti-satellite missile test and the debris field it caused, which forced the seven astronauts and cosmonauts on board the International Spac…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
3 Key Space Takeaways from the Macron-Harris Chat in Paris
This week on The DownLinK, we’re looking at U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s four-day trip to Paris. She had a number of events, but what we’re interested in is her discussion with French Presiden…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Is Space Critical Infrastructure?
This episode is about infrastructure, a subject, no doubt, that you have probably been hearing a whole lot about these past few days, especially if you are in the United States. That’s because the U.…
Published on 4 years ago
Gen. Milley - Close to a Modern-Day Sputnik Moment
The U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley not only confirmed that the U.S. intelligence community, and therefore the Department of Defense and the U.S. administration believe th…
Published on 4 years ago
China’s Hypersonic Mystery
What the heck did China send up into orbit? The Financial Times says China launched a hypersonic glide vehicle carrying a fractional orbital bombardment system into orbit in the July-August time-fram…
Published on 4 years ago
Transmission #000
This is the first episode… Or just episode zero in podcasting parlance. Episode zero is usually used just for sending out an RSS ping to all of the podcast platforms, like Soundcloud, to let those p…
Published on 4 years ago