All Episodes
The DownLink Podcast — 243 episodes · page 1 of 3
Words First, Then Money, Now Hardware
Q3: Big Checks and Rocket Risk
Don't Waste a Molecule. Close the Air Loop.
U.S.-China Summit: Trump, Xi, and the State of the Space Race
Orbital Space Weapons — Meh, Pivotal, or Both?
U.S. Space Academy: "Doesn't It Make Sense?"
What’s the Payload the President’s 1,000-Launch Memo Should Deliver?
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