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How Is The Space Sector Reacting To And Mitigating Against The Effects Of Russia's War?
How is the space sector reacting to Russia’s war in Ukraine and mitigating against an uptick in cyber threats to space systems? Laura Winter speaks …
4 years, 1 month ago
Tech and Financial Sanctions Target Russia's Space Programs
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has kicked off financial and technical sanctions targetting Russian space programs, a threatening Twitter storm from the…
4 years, 1 month ago
Are Balloons A Persistent Defense Business Opportunity?
Balloons as big as a football stadium provide the Department of Defense with suborbital services, such as payload hosting and persistent ultra-high q…
4 years, 2 months ago
Russia's Space Programs And Sanctions, Now And In The Future
If you think sanctions to counter Russian aggression have not and will not make a difference, look at what is Russia’s clearest exemplification of it…
4 years, 2 months ago
Britain's First Defence Space Strategy
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence released its much-anticipated inaugural space policy paper “Defence Space Strategy: Operationalising the Spa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Electronic Warfare: Russia's Answer to U.S. SatCom Superiority
When the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday outlined what forces the Russian military has amassed along Ukraine’s eastern borders, …
4 years, 2 months ago
Tracking Trash For Treasure
In this episode, Laura Winter speaks with Dan Ceperley, the co-founder and CEO of LeoLabs, a Silicon Valley space-start-up that’s attracted $100 mill…
4 years, 3 months ago
Going Nuclear - Is It The Answer To How To Protect Key Space Assets?
Should the United States use space nuclear thermal propulsion for its key on-orbit assets? It’s not just simply to stuff of Star Trek. In fact the id…
4 years, 3 months ago
Continuing Resolution Purgatory: What Lawmakers Really Need to Ask
Welcome to the New Year!... And to federal budget purgatory… The National Defense Authorization Act for the financial year 2022 is law, but the U.S. …
4 years, 3 months ago
The No. 1 Space Issue From 2021 That's Punching Through Into 2022 And Beyond
In this year-end episode of The DownLink, Laura Winter unravels a space threat story through three key interviews with Donald Kessler, the now-retire…
4 years, 3 months ago