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The DownLink Podcast — 160 episodes
Space Force: Targeted Growth In a Time of Budgetary Uncertainty
Satellites, War, and Humanitarian Law: The ICRC Explains
SpaceX's Q2: A Neo Cloud With a Rocket Side Hustle
Space Competition: China 1H 2026: Rockets, Vassals, and Purges
Space Power: Should the Space Force Station Guardians on the Moon?
Space Power: Who Is the Next Chief of Space Operations?
Space Tech: Where "Resilient" Isn't a Policy Cliché
Space Money: Q2 2026 — Deals, Divestitures, and Big Checks
Space Power: Executing the International Strategy — Air Marshal Paul Godfrey
Space Money: The Demand Pull — Kevin O'Connell
Space Money: At $1.77 Trillion It’s SpaceX IPO Day!
Space Power: What Is Taiwan Building? Why?
Space Competition: AIAA's Clay Mowry On What The Commercial Sector Wants
Space Tech: Can Space-Based Solar Power Close the Business Case?
Space Money: Terran Orbital and the Race to Scale
Space Competition: Sovereign Systems May Have Entangled Outcomes
Space Power: Space Force "Budget's Like A Protein Shake"
Space Power: The Space Force Reveals What's In Its Crystal Ball
Space Money: Lunar Excitement And SpaceX’s “Crazy Pants” Valuation
Space Money: Buckle-Up For “Incredibly Dramatic” Changes In The Market
Space Competition: “March Storm” On Capitol Hill Seeks Equal Tax Treatment For Space Investors
Space Power: Space Force West Scholars Axed. What’s The Future for Senior Professional Military Education?
Space Money: A Traders Take on Epic Fury, Valuations, and the SpaceX IPO
Space Tech: Skynopy - The Ground Station Play That May Have a Military Application
Space Money: Tariffs, SCOTUS, Carveouts, And Space Business
Space Power: Middle East Ambitions
Space Money: The Space Force Budget And A New Leader
Space Power: The View From Down Under
Space Power: Golden Dome - “Boy! Has It Stalled”
Space Money: "Steel Is Sexy"
Space Power: What Are The Strategic Implications of the Trump Corollary and Venezuela?
Space Power: Is This The Space Strategy We Have Been Waiting For?
Space Power: New Names May Foretell New Space Weapons Systems
Space Money: Jonny Dyer’s Equation: AI + Lasers = Speed
Space Power: Germany Is Getting Ready For War In Space
Space Power: Want a Defense Contract? New Rules.
Space Money: The Market “Has Fundamentally Matured”
Space Power: Richard Joseph - “Making The Fight Unfair”
Space Tech: This Start-Up Wants To Send Military Cargo On Demand To Anywhere In One Hour
Space Money: Germany’s Military Is Spending… Hugely
Space Money: Q3 - Investor Sentiment Is Positive
Space Power: Acquisitions And A Big Pot Of Money
Space Tech: Down Under Quantum Tech Companies Seek US Beachheads
Space Money: NIGCOMSAT CEO, Nigeria Can “drive policy, space industrialization”
Space Tech: AI, Humans & Golden Dome
Space Power: A Promise Made. A Promise Broken.
Space Money: Assured Access to Space Starts on the Ground for $4 Billion
Space Power: Key To Trump’s Strategy Is In The Space Force Budget
Space Power: Air Marshal Godfrey - Delivering Allied Space Capability
Space Power: Can We Ditch The Feudal Era?
Space Money: $613B - What’s Behind the Big New Number?
Space Competition: Amid US Budget Woes, China Pushes Expansion
Space Money: Defense Budget, Markets, and Champagne
Space Power: Space Force ‘26 Budget: “ A One-Time Sugar High”
Space Power: Commercial Satellite Imagery For Intelligence & Operations Is At Risk
Space Competition: Down Under Companies, Leaders Target US Space & Defense Market
Space Power: The Problem With The Trump-Musk RUD That Wasn’t
Space Competition: Lawsuits, Loans, Proxies And Pirates
Space Money: A Fighting Irishman Walks Into A Boardroom With The PRC
Space Money: IonQ & Capella CEOs on the $318m Deal, Plans & Vision
Space Tech: A Soft Touchdown Closes Varda’s Business Case
Space Money: Pullen’s Analysis - Don’t Freak. “Take A Deep Breath.”
Space Power: Look Beyond “The Tips Of Your Skis”
Space Power: Space Force Is Using Fighting Words!
Space Tech: Don’t Forget The Ground!
Space Money: Trump’s Wild “Liberation Day” Ride Has Arrived!
Space Competition: European Commission Urges EU To Spend Big On Defense And Space
Space Power: Size Matters - A Star Wars Physicist's Take On Golden Dome
Space Tech: U.S. Uncertainty Creates Opportunity For Europe’s Space Sector
Space Money: Tariffs and Scarcity Equal Economic Shock
Space Competition: Indo-Pacific Unclear on What To Make of Trump’s Space and Security Policies
Space Power: Egg Prices Vs. Trump's Iron Dome
Space Tech: What Tech Is Required To Make Trump’s “Iron Dome” Work In 685 Days?
Space Money: Trump’s Tariffs Squeeze Supply of Minerals Critical To Space Systems
Space Power: Trump’s New “Star Wars” Executive Order
Space Tech: What The First Space Force Chief Scientist Says Must Change Pt1
Space Power: Trump 2.0, the 119th Congress, And The First 100 Days
Space Money: Great Expectations For Trump Administration 2.0
Space Competition: China Launches Broadband Competitor Network To SpaceX’s Starlink
Space Power: Chief Master Sergeant John Bentivegna - Becoming Space Warfighter-Minded
Space Money: The Game Of Space-Based Risk In a Time Of Market Fragility
Space Competition: Trump’s South Korean Space Opportunity
Space Competition: How Space Allies and Adversaries Read “America First” and a Mars-shot
Space Power: Trump 2.0 May Attempt Human Mars Landing, Establish Department of the Space Force
Space Power: President-Elect Trump Expected To Supercharge U.S. Space Ambitions
Space Money: Report - DoD At Risk of Losing New Commercial Space Suppliers And Capabilities
Space Competition: Threats and Trends A Year After October 7th
Space Power: A National Guardsman’s View On Why A Pentagon Plan Is A “Lose-Lose Proposal”
Space Tech: Talking To The Far Side of the Moon
Space Money: Q3 Take - “Money Doesn’t Care”
Space Competition: How To Better De-Risk Adversarial Threats To Space Systems’ Value
Space Power: Space Force CSO - “What We Were Is Not What We Must Become”
Space Tech: Is It A Bird? A Plane? Actually... It’s A Drone
Space Money: Starliner, A 737 Max Felony, and a New Boeing CEO
Space Competition: Geo-Strategic Questions Over NASA’s Plan to Destroy the ISS
Space Power: War-Gamers Say We’re “Behind the Eight Ball”
Space Tech: Defense Looking At Modular Upgrades For Greater SDA
Space Money: Silicon Valley - “The DoD Has Not Brought The Dough”
Space Power: SmallSats - Time To Plan, Procure, And Execute
Space Technology: Holes Bubble Up In NASA’s Narrative On Plan To De-Orbit The Space Station
Space Power: NATO Summit - Defense Industry! Can You Hear The Demand Signal Now?
Space Power: NATO Summit - Security Alliance Is Employing More Than Words In Space Domain
Space Money: Welcome To The Second Half Of 2024!
Space Competition: “We Need To Go From Ambition To Implementation”
Space Power: What’s the Story With The Space Force?
Space Money: The Long-Term Strategy Inside The Space Force Budget Numbers
Space Money: Risk of Second Boots vs First Base
Space Competition: The PLA May Not Be Ready To Fight In Space
Space Power: What The U.S. Needs To Build “An Enduring Advantage In The Third Space Age”
Space Power: Why States, National Guard Association Say “No!” To Defense Department Space Units Plan
Space Money: "For Those Who Can Execute, The Opportunity Is Massive"
Space Competition: AUKUS Nations - UK and Australia Aim to Plus Up Defense
Space Power: “The Biggest Enemy to National Security Are Continuing Resolutions”
Space Power: SECAF Says “Our Cushion Is Gone. We are out of time.”
Space Money: “Get Used To "Crazyville”, “Moon Mania”, And A New Defense Strategy
Space Competition: Why SpaceX’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” Is Redrawing The Map To Success
Space Power: 2025 Space Force Budget Slashes Launches, Reduces Buying Power By 5%
Space Power: Fines On Space Junk In The Pipeline And What’s Legal Salvage
Space Money: The Fortune 500 View From TE Connectivity’s Martin Cullen
Space Competition: Can The US Deter Its Adversaries From Launching Cyberattacks on Space Systems?
Space Power: Securing Space Systems From Cyber Attack - “We Play Whack-A-Mole”
Space Tech: The Threat Landscape, A Cyber Vulnerability, And Ransoming A Satellite
Space Money: When Nation States Target The Commercial Space Sector
Space Tech: A U.S. Space Force Bet That Could Truly Monetize Space Junk… For Real
Space Power: What the Space Force Needs Now For Cislunar Operations
SPACE TECH: Is NASA Surrendering The Promise of Space-Based Solar Power to China, ESA, And Japan?
Space Money: Has Investor Passion Left The Building?
"It's been Quite A Banner Year For China Militarily, Commercially, Scientifically In Space"
Chief Master Sergeant Bentivegna: “Why The Identity Portion Is So Important To Us.”
U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Office: Bankruptcies And Consolidation Are Expected
Accenture's Anti-Trend Space Investment Strategy
Starship's Second Flight Test and China's Reaction
A Rogue Plan: The Right Tool For The Right Job On Orbit
Space Force Maj. Gen. Olson: ISAM Technology "A Core Part of Our Vision For The Future"
Space Competition: New Agreement Lights Rocket Under Australia’s Minister of Industry and Science
South Korea, Space Security, And The Plan To Become A “Space Economy” Power
Critical Challenges to Protecting Human Habitats on Orbit, on The Moon, and Beyond
A Permanent Off-World Economy Starts In A Garage With A Gas Cap
Has The Space Economy Slowdown Hit Bottom?
China’s Grand Strategy for the Solar System
The Future of In-Space Security: Views From the C-Suite
New Space Force Mission Statement…Is It A Brownwater Or A Bluewater Future?
Building A Secure Cis-Lunar Economy - What’s It Going To Take?
That Touted DoD Budget Plus-Up Cuts Into Space Force and Seeding Future Military Space Innovation
India And Russia Are About To Attempt Separate Lunar Landings, Revealing A Fracturing Relationship
This Space Experiment Will Underpin Off-World Ambition, Commerce, and Colonization
Comtech’s CEO and “Imagineer” Ken Peterman: Hybrid Space Technologies Are Driving Value Now
China: More Weird Reports of "Disappearances And Departures"
Space Force: “Begin With A Clean Sheet Of Paper” - Part 2
Kimberly Crider: Cyber, Data, Defense, and Space
Welcome To The Second Half Of 2023!
The Modi State Visit: U.S and Indian Interests In Space and Defense Converge… Big Time!
Space Force: “Begin With A Clean Sheet Of Paper” - Part 1
Space Systems Command Wants More Face Time
The U.S.-China Moon Race Heats Up
Cyber & Space: Microsoft Says There’s a Chinese Typhoon in Guam
DIU’s “Bucky” Butow, Space Innovation, and the Industrial Base
Software Drives Printed Rocket Motors, GSaaS, and New Calls for Collective Cyber Security for Space
Want a Cutting Edge Space Space Force? We’ve Got To Talk About Bank Failures.
A Missing Lunar Lander, A Mutual Defense Treaty, And “China… China… China”