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On Orbit — 169 episodes

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Future-Proofing Satellite Networks With ST Engineering iDirect Sales SVP Brian Jakins

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Inside SatEnlight's Spiral Staircase of Lasers: Interview with Startup Space Winner Matteo Vismara

3

Automation and Agility: How SSC Space Go Is Designed for the New Age of Ground

4

Investing in American Manufacturing: Shey Sabripour Talks CesiumAstro's Ramp-Up

5

Designing for the Next Generation of GEO With Swissto12 CEO Emile de Rijk

6

Semiconductors, Satellites, and Scale With Spirit Electronics CEO Marti McCurdy

7

From Skepticism to Maturity: Unpacking Space Investment in 2025 With Chad Anderson

8

The Infrastructure Revolution Behind Data Centers in Space With Ramon.Space CEO Avi Shabtai

9

The Commercial-Defense Convergence: 2026 Trends to Watch

10

Quantum is Coming: How Does it Change the Game for Space Systems and Networks?

11

Space Traffic Management for Security With Neuraspace CEO Chiara Manfletti

12

Space-Grade Innovation: The Evolution of Onboard Computing With Aethero CEO Edward Ge

13

How Sovereign Networks Fit Into National Strategies With ST Engineering iDirect

14

Building the Future of Infrastructure in Space With Dr. Ariel Ekblaw of Rendezvous Robotics

15

Digitization at the Edge With ETL Systems

16

D2D and Defense Momentum: Takeaways from World Space Business Week

17

SAR for Sovereignty and Security: Inside Umbra's Mission Solutions Business With Jason Mallare

18

Driving Commercial Integration in Space: Interview With COMSO Director Lt. Col. Tim Trimailo

19

AI and a New Era of Geospatial Intelligence with Esri's Beau Legeer

20

Nanomedicine on the ISS: Pioneering Medical and Pharmaceutical Research in Orbit

21

Sizing Up Satellite-Mobile Integration in 2025 With GSMA Intelligence

22

The Roadmap to the Satellite-Connected Car with BMW Group and 5GAA

23

Unveiling the Universe: How NASA's James Webb Telescope Changed Our Understanding of Space

24

How Cuts to NWS and NOAA Could Impact the Upcoming Hurricane Season

25

Building Africa's Satellite Ecosystem With Phemotron Systems CEO Femi Ishola

26

Investors' Outlook on Future Space Economy Applications

27

How the Ground Segment Enables Innovation in Space With Comtech's Daniel Gizinski

28

Navigating the Space Regulatory Environment in 2025 With River Advisers CEO Alexis Martin

29

Storytelling for Space: Sarah Cruddas on Communicating the Value of Space

30

The Satellite Industry's Policy Priorities for Trump 2.0 With Madeleine Chang

31

Not Your Dad's Space Domain Awareness, With Brien Flewelling of ExoAnalytic Solutions

32

Space Situational Awareness in an Era of Weaponized Space

33

2024 Year in Review With Via Satellite Editors

34

Baiju Bhatt on Aetherflux's Vision to Build a Power Grid in Space

35

Evolving Launch and Delivery Infrastructure to Support an Expanding Space Economy

36

Acres of Potential: How NASA Acres Works to Bring Satellite Imagery to the Agriculture Industry

37

What a Trump or Harris Election Win Means for the Space and Satellite Industry

38

Via Editors Recap World Space Business Week

39

Patti Grace Smith Fellows Share the Program's Outsized Impact

40

Space Robotics: Leading Autonomous Systems for Building, Capturing, and Servicing

41

What's Propelling the Need for In-Space Mobility?

42

Bluetooth from Space: Hubble Network Reimagines Satellite IoT

43

Caleb Henry Sets Out to Catalog the Story of OneWeb

44

Exploring NASA's Post-ISS Space Station Options

45

Fighting Wildfires from Space With the Earth Fire Alliance

46

How Planet Works with Partners to Accelerate its Impact With CFO Ashley Johnson

47

Building Deep Space Satellite Connectivity Networks

48

How TrustPoint Aims at the Commercial Future of GPS, with CEO Patrick Shannon

49

To LEO, GEO, and Beyond: A Conversation With Tom Mueller

50

Nuclear Weapons in Space: Behind the Headlines With Brian Weeden

51

Unpacking the Geopolitical Landscape of GNSS With Zephr CEO Sean Gorman

52

Exploring Potential in Quantum Tech, Diversity, and Creativity With Sonali Mohapatra

53

Keeping Space Clean and Safe for Everyone: The Global Sustainability Mission

54

Inside the World of Space Communications With Sarah Nickell

55

2023 Year in Review With Via Satellite Editors

56

Explaining the Vital Space-to-Ground Link With SSC's Erwin Mercado

57

Satellite Policy and a Side of Space Movies With Henry Gola

58

How Startups are Shaping the Future Space Economy

59

What Does ESG Mean for the Space Industry Here on Earth?

60

Protecting the Space Economy: Cyber Defenses and National Security

61

Future Space Economy Series: The Evolution of the Space Tourism Experience

62

Why the MyRadar Weather App Launched its Own Satellites

63

Future Space Economy Series: The Value of a Lunar Economy Explained

64

Is Space Crowded? Managing Traffic in Space With Chiara Manfletti of Neuraspace

65

Decoding the Direct-to-Device Market With Tarun Gupta of Skylo Technologies

66

Future Space Economy Series: Laws and Liability in Space

67

Internet of Tractors: Unlocking Agricultural Connectivity with John Deere Engineer Chung Hsieh

68

Our 100th Episode, Featuring Startup Space Winner Jacqueline Good

69

An Inside Look at Geospatial Intelligence With Ronda Schrenk

70

Future Space Economy Series: Computing Power in Space

71

Boeing's Michelle Parker on the Evolving Landscape of Satellite Manufacturing

72

Future Space Economy Series: Business Models in Space

73

Satellite in the Wild: How the Smithsonian and Iridium Track Animals from Space

74

Future Space Economy Series: Infrastructure for a New Frontier

75

Can I Work in Space? Evona's Tom Kelly on Expanding the Sector Workforce

76

Future Space Economy Series: The Next Giant Leap

77

How Space Startups Score Seed Investment in a Crowded, Competitive Market

78

Does the iPhone 14's Satellite Service Signal Stronger Space-Cellular Industry Relationships?

79

Adventures in Paris: World Satellite Business Week Wrap-Up

80

Super-Charged Hyperspectral Satellite Imaging with Dan Katz, Orbital Sidekick

81

Super-Charged Hyperspectral Satellite Imaging with Dan Katz, Orbital Sidekick

82

Spaceflight's Curt Blake on the Future of Multi-Orbit Ridesharing

83

Cloud to Street Transforms Climate Change-Era Flood Insurance with Satellite Data

84

Can Europe's Newest Spaceports Turn the Continent into a Global Launch Hub?

85

John Deere's Kiel Ronning Sees Data-Driven Solutions for Food Shortages

86

US, UK, and Argentine Government End Users Outline What They Need from Commercial Partners

87

Boosting Smallsats to Geostationary Orbit With GeoJump's Isa Fritz

88

Startup Space Winner Dr. Luisa Buinhas of Vyoma Balances Building Tech and Building Her Business

89

Why Argentina is Investing in a Future-Focused, Government-Supported Space Economy

90

Space Gets Caught in the Crossfire of Russia's War on Ukraine

91

Asia's Satellite Bandwidth Market Prepares for a Post-COVID Rebound

92

Startup Space 2022 Entrepreneurs Battle for Million-Dollar Pitch Meeting

93

BryceTech's Carissa Christensen Shares the Science of Space Industry Soothsaying

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BryceTech's Carissa Christensen Shares the Science of Space Industry Soothsaying

95

GSOA's Satellite Spectrum, Space Sustainability Mission Goes Global

96

GSOA's Satellite Spectrum, Space Sustainability Mission Goes Global

97

World-Renowned Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku Explains Our Future in Space

98

Why Does the Space Industry Struggle with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace?

99

Former Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson: Will Private Capital Fund Off-World Infrastructure?

100

Taiwan's Space Startups are Creating a Global Sandbox for Low-Earth Orbit

101

How Meteorologist Meredith Garofalo Caught the Space Bug

102

Hawkeye 360's Serafini: 'You Can't Be a Part-Time Government Data Provider'

103

Month in Review: Blue Origin Blues, Data for Everything, and Chasing SpaceX

104

How Startup Space's Youngest-Ever Winner Found Gold in NASA's Idea Storage Closet

105

Supercomputing in Software-Defined Space

106

A Battle Against Physics: Building the Perfect Low-Cost Satellite Antenna

107

Astronaut & Author Ron Garan Explains How Space Travel Changes Perspective

108

Seeking New Ground for New Space

109

Via Satellite's 10 Hottest Space Companies of 2021

110

Astronaut Sandra Magnus Takes on Optical Satellites, Human Spaceflight, and Sustainability

111

Emily Calandrelli Demystifies Space for Netflix and Tik Tok

112

The Future Legacy of Alabama's 'Rocket City'

113

Quebec's Space Economy Jumps to Lightspeed

114

(Space) Graphic Design is My Passion

115

Eric Berger, Elon Musk, and the Stars of SpaceX's Origin Story

116

Farmer Charlie's Space-Powered Smart Agritech Platform

117

Pack Your Bags! We're Going on a Space Vacation!

118

Mourning a Lost Satellite: How In-Space's Doug Liddle Bounced Back from a Tragic Launch Failure

119

The Creative Process of Virgin Orbit's Storyteller, Kendall Russell

120

Khristian Jones Chats Patti Grace Smith Fellowship

121

2020 in Review and the Decade Ahead With Euroconsult's Maxime Puteaux

122

Fueling Up in Space With Orbit Fab's Dan Faber

123

SIA's Therese Jones Chats Zed Factor Fellowship

124

How Astroscale's Carolyn Belle Sees the Future of the Space Economy

125

What Does the 2020 Election Mean for Space Policy?

126

Chatting With Grace Graham: ULA Internship and Twitter Q&A

127

Internship 101 With Former Matthew Isakowitz Fellow Josh Ingersoll

128

From Amazon Software to Space-Based Blockchain with Aravind Ravichandran

129

To Mars and Beyond With Chris Bellant of the Mars Initiative

130

The Potential of the African Space Industry With MzansiSat's Victor Stephanopoli

131

A PocketQube Startup Story with Alba Orbital's Tom Walkinshaw

132

Propulsion in Space While Moving Forward on Earth With Naia Butler-Craig

133

Keeping Space Green and Clean With Luc Riesbeck

134

Cubesat Experiments With Julie Sage, Gen Z Aspiring Astrophysicist

135

Exploring Space Medicine With Dominic Tanzillo

136

Making Space in the Space Industry With SEDS Director of Projects Nicole Chase

137

Launching Both CubeSats and Events With SEDS Rice President Ryan Udell

138

The Automated Fiber-Planting Tractor that Won Startup Space

139

On Orbit Live at SATELLITE — What Does "New Space" Really Mean?

140

The Songs (and Sounds) of Space with Steven Drozd & The Flaming Lips

141

The Future of Connectivity

142

The Regulatory Landscape with Jennifer Manner

143

Rapid-Fire Inspiration — an SGx Preview with Karina Perez Molina

144

In the Air, On the Ocean, On the Move

145

Harvest Hub: Food Security from Space

146

When Disaster Strikes

147

Kerbal Space Program's Aerospace of Play

148

Changing Lives with Affordable Internet Access

149

WTF is WRC (and Why Should I Care?)

150

Connecting Rural and Hard-to-Reach Places

151

The Top 12 Space and Satellite News Stories of 2019

152

Microsoft Azure, Dell Energy CTOs on the Digital Innovation Frontier

153

Satellite Cybersecurity Horror Stories with Ken Munro

154

Building Smallsats Like Cars: NanoAvionics Comes to the USA

155

Commercial Satellite in the 1980s: An Industry History Lesson w/ Scott Chase

156

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Satellite-Powered Precision Farming

157

Cosmic Girl: Launching Satellites from Jumbo Jets w/ Sirisha Bandla of Virgin Orbit

158

Seeing is Believing: Space-Based SAR to Save our Environment w/ Capella Space CEO Payam Banazadeh

159

Community Wi-Fi: Education, Healthcare, and Economic Equality w/ Dave Rehbehn and Peter Gulla

160

Carpooling Satellites: Historic and Unique Rideshare Launch Missions w/ Spaceflight and TriSept

161

It's Cleanup Time! Dangerous Space Debris w/ Astroscale COO Chris Blackerby

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The All-in-One Aerospace Engineer, Economist, and Entrepreneur w/ Grace Graham, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow From Utah State University

163

Software-Defined Space(s): The Evolving Cloud w/ Greg Quiggle of Kratos & Alain Guigui of Hewlett Packard

164

5G's Conceptual Link to Satellite w/ Karl Horne of SES Networks & Ashish Sharma of Inseego

165

Space Politics of a Space Force w/ Vivienne Machi of Defense Daily

166

3D Printed Rockets w/ Tim Ellis, CEO of Relativity (Live at SATELLITE 2019)

167

Launching Thousands of Smallsats w/ Jenny Barna (Live at SATELLITE 2019)

168

Space's Private Industry Ambassador w/ Jeff Matthews (Live at SATELLITE 2019)

169

Building Bridges Across the Digital Divide: Hybrid Satellite Networks