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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, 9 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, 9 months ago
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 w…
4 years, 9 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 - t…
4 years, 9 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: …
4 years, 10 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 spec…
4 years, 10 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 astrona…
4 years, 10 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 in…
4 years, 10 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 y…
4 years, 11 months 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…
4 years, 11 months ago