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From the Defense & Aerospace Report... This is The DownLink Podcast, hosted by Laura Winter. From the intersection of space, business, and defense... Not just what's over the horizon, but what's happening above it. The DownLink Podcast is 2023, 2024, and 2025 Defense Media Award-winner.

Episode Date
U.S. Space Academy: "Doesn't It Make Sense?"
Sep 11, 2026
What’s the Payload the President’s 1,000-Launch Memo Should Deliver?
Sep 04, 2026
Space Force: Targeted Growth In a Time of Budgetary Uncertainty
Aug 21, 2026
Satellites, War, and Humanitarian Law: The ICRC Explains
Aug 14, 2026
SpaceX's Q2: A Neo Cloud With a Rocket Side Hustle
Aug 07, 2026
Space Competition: China 1H 2026: Rockets, Vassals, and Purges
Jul 31, 2026
Space Power: Should the Space Force Station Guardians on the Moon?
Jul 24, 2026
Space Power: Who Is the Next Chief of Space Operations?
Jul 17, 2026
Space Tech: Where "Resilient" Isn't a Policy Cliché
Jul 10, 2026
Space Money: Q2 2026 — Deals, Divestitures, and Big Checks
Jul 03, 2026
Space Power: Executing the International Strategy — Air Marshal Paul Godfrey
Jun 26, 2026
Space Money: The Demand Pull — Kevin O'Connell
Jun 19, 2026
Space Money: At $1.77 Trillion It’s SpaceX IPO Day!
Jun 12, 2026
Space Power: What Is Taiwan Building? Why?
Jun 05, 2026
Space Competition: AIAA's Clay Mowry On What The Commercial Sector Wants
May 22, 2026
Space Tech: Can Space-Based Solar Power Close the Business Case?
May 15, 2026
Space Money: Terran Orbital and the Race to Scale
May 08, 2026
Space Competition: Sovereign Systems May Have Entangled Outcomes
May 01, 2026
Space Power: Space Force "Budget's Like A Protein Shake"
Apr 24, 2026
Space Power: The Space Force Reveals What's In Its Crystal Ball
Apr 18, 2026
Space Money: Lunar Excitement And SpaceX’s “Crazy Pants” Valuation
Apr 03, 2026
Space Money: Buckle-Up For “Incredibly Dramatic” Changes In The Market
Mar 27, 2026
Space Competition: “March Storm” On Capitol Hill Seeks Equal Tax Treatment For Space Investors
Mar 20, 2026
Space Power: Space Force West Scholars Axed. What’s The Future for Senior Professional Military Education?
Mar 13, 2026
Space Money: A Traders Take on Epic Fury, Valuations, and the SpaceX IPO
Mar 06, 2026
Space Tech: Skynopy - The Ground Station Play That May Have a Military Application
Feb 27, 2026
Space Money: Tariffs, SCOTUS, Carveouts, And Space Business
Feb 20, 2026
Space Power: Middle East Ambitions
Feb 13, 2026
Space Money: The Space Force Budget And A New Leader
Feb 06, 2026
Space Power: The View From Down Under
Jan 30, 2026
Space Power: Golden Dome - “Boy! Has It Stalled”
Jan 23, 2026
Space Money: "Steel Is Sexy"
Jan 16, 2026
Space Power: What Are The Strategic Implications of the Trump Corollary and Venezuela?
Jan 09, 2026
Space Power: Is This The Space Strategy We Have Been Waiting For?
Dec 20, 2025
Space Power: New Names May Foretell New Space Weapons Systems
Dec 14, 2025
Space Money: Jonny Dyer’s Equation: AI + Lasers = Speed
Dec 05, 2025
Space Power: Germany Is Getting Ready For War In Space
Nov 22, 2025
Space Power: Want a Defense Contract? New Rules.
Nov 15, 2025
Space Money: The Market “Has Fundamentally Matured”
Nov 07, 2025
Space Power: Richard Joseph - “Making The Fight Unfair”
Oct 24, 2025
Space Tech: This Start-Up Wants To Send Military Cargo On Demand To Anywhere In One Hour
Oct 17, 2025
Space Money: Germany’s Military Is Spending… Hugely
Oct 11, 2025
Space Money: Q3 - Investor Sentiment Is Positive
Oct 03, 2025
Space Power: Acquisitions And A Big Pot Of Money
Sep 26, 2025
Space Tech: Down Under Quantum Tech Companies Seek US Beachheads
Sep 20, 2025
Space Money: NIGCOMSAT CEO, Nigeria Can “drive policy, space industrialization”
Sep 13, 2025
Space Tech: AI, Humans & Golden Dome
Sep 05, 2025
Space Power: A Promise Made. A Promise Broken.
Aug 30, 2025
Space Money: Assured Access to Space Starts on the Ground for $4 Billion
Aug 22, 2025
Space Power: Key To Trump’s Strategy Is In The Space Force Budget
Aug 15, 2025
Space Power: Air Marshal Godfrey - Delivering Allied Space Capability
Aug 08, 2025
Space Power: Can We Ditch The Feudal Era?
Aug 01, 2025
Space Money: $613B - What’s Behind the Big New Number?
Jul 25, 2025
Space Competition: Amid US Budget Woes, China Pushes Expansion
Jul 19, 2025
Space Money: Defense Budget, Markets, and Champagne
Jul 11, 2025
Space Power: Space Force ‘26 Budget: “ A One-Time Sugar High”
Jul 05, 2025
Space Power: Commercial Satellite Imagery For Intelligence & Operations Is At Risk
Jun 27, 2025
Space Competition: Down Under Companies, Leaders Target US Space & Defense Market
Jun 22, 2025
Space Power: The Problem With The Trump-Musk RUD That Wasn’t
Jun 13, 2025
Space Competition: Lawsuits, Loans, Proxies And Pirates
Jun 07, 2025
Space Money: A Fighting Irishman Walks Into A Boardroom With The PRC
May 30, 2025
Space Money: IonQ & Capella CEOs on the $318m Deal, Plans & Vision
May 17, 2025
Space Tech: A Soft Touchdown Closes Varda’s Business Case
May 09, 2025
Space Money: Pullen’s Analysis - Don’t Freak. “Take A Deep Breath.”
May 02, 2025
Space Power: Look Beyond “The Tips Of Your Skis”
Apr 25, 2025
Space Power: Space Force Is Using Fighting Words!
Apr 18, 2025
Space Tech: Don’t Forget The Ground!
Apr 11, 2025
Space Money: Trump’s Wild “Liberation Day” Ride Has Arrived!
Apr 07, 2025
Space Competition: European Commission Urges EU To Spend Big On Defense And Space
Mar 26, 2025
Space Power: Size Matters - A Star Wars Physicist's Take On Golden Dome
Mar 21, 2025
Space Tech: U.S. Uncertainty Creates Opportunity For Europe’s Space Sector
Mar 12, 2025
Space Money: Tariffs and Scarcity Equal Economic Shock
Mar 07, 2025
Space Competition: Indo-Pacific Unclear on What To Make of Trump’s Space and Security Policies
Feb 27, 2025
Space Power: Egg Prices Vs. Trump's Iron Dome
Feb 19, 2025
Space Tech: What Tech Is Required To Make Trump’s “Iron Dome” Work In 685 Days?
Feb 14, 2025
Space Money: Trump’s Tariffs Squeeze Supply of Minerals Critical To Space Systems
Feb 07, 2025
Space Power: Trump’s New “Star Wars” Executive Order
Jan 31, 2025
Space Tech: What The First Space Force Chief Scientist Says Must Change Pt1
Jan 24, 2025
Space Power: Trump 2.0, the 119th Congress, And The First 100 Days
Jan 17, 2025
Space Money: Great Expectations For Trump Administration 2.0
Jan 10, 2025
Space Competition: China Launches Broadband Competitor Network To SpaceX’s Starlink
Dec 20, 2024
Space Power: Chief Master Sergeant John Bentivegna - Becoming Space Warfighter-Minded
Dec 14, 2024
Space Money: The Game Of Space-Based Risk In a Time Of Market Fragility
Dec 07, 2024
Space Competition: Trump’s South Korean Space Opportunity
Dec 01, 2024
Space Competition: How Space Allies and Adversaries Read “America First” and a Mars-shot
Nov 24, 2024
Space Power: Trump 2.0 May Attempt Human Mars Landing, Establish Department of the Space Force
Nov 16, 2024
Space Power: President-Elect Trump Expected To Supercharge U.S. Space Ambitions
Nov 09, 2024
Space Money: Report - DoD At Risk of Losing New Commercial Space Suppliers And Capabilities
Nov 01, 2024
Space Competition: Threats and Trends A Year After October 7th
Oct 27, 2024
Space Power: A National Guardsman’s View On Why A Pentagon Plan Is A “Lose-Lose Proposal”
Oct 20, 2024
Space Tech: Talking To The Far Side of the Moon
Oct 13, 2024
Space Money: Q3 Take - “Money Doesn’t Care”
Oct 06, 2024
Space Competition: How To Better De-Risk Adversarial Threats To Space Systems’ Value
Sep 28, 2024
Space Power: Space Force CSO - “What We Were Is Not What We Must Become”
Sep 20, 2024
Space Tech: Is It A Bird? A Plane? Actually... It’s A Drone
Sep 15, 2024
Space Money: Starliner, A 737 Max Felony, and a New Boeing CEO
Sep 07, 2024
Space Competition: Geo-Strategic Questions Over NASA’s Plan to Destroy the ISS
Sep 01, 2024
Space Power: War-Gamers Say We’re “Behind the Eight Ball”
Aug 23, 2024
Space Tech: Defense Looking At Modular Upgrades For Greater SDA
Aug 10, 2024
Space Money: Silicon Valley - “The DoD Has Not Brought The Dough”
Aug 03, 2024
Space Power: SmallSats - Time To Plan, Procure, And Execute
Jul 26, 2024
Space Technology: Holes Bubble Up In NASA’s Narrative On Plan To De-Orbit The Space Station
Jul 21, 2024
Space Power: NATO Summit - Defense Industry! Can You Hear The Demand Signal Now?
Jul 13, 2024
Space Power: NATO Summit - Security Alliance Is Employing More Than Words In Space Domain
Jul 07, 2024
Space Money: Welcome To The Second Half Of 2024!
Jun 29, 2024
Space Competition: “We Need To Go From Ambition To Implementation”
Jun 23, 2024
Space Power: What’s the Story With The Space Force?
Jun 14, 2024
Space Money: The Long-Term Strategy Inside The Space Force Budget Numbers
Jun 09, 2024
Space Money: Risk of Second Boots vs First Base
Jun 02, 2024
Space Competition: The PLA May Not Be Ready To Fight In Space
May 25, 2024
Space Power: What The U.S. Needs To Build “An Enduring Advantage In The Third Space Age”
May 18, 2024
Space Power: Why States, National Guard Association Say “No!” To Defense Department Space Units Plan
May 10, 2024
Space Money: "For Those Who Can Execute, The Opportunity Is Massive"
May 05, 2024
Space Competition: AUKUS Nations - UK and Australia Aim to Plus Up Defense
Apr 27, 2024
Space Power: “The Biggest Enemy to National Security Are Continuing Resolutions”
Apr 20, 2024
Space Power: SECAF Says “Our Cushion Is Gone. We are out of time.”
Apr 13, 2024
Space Money: “Get Used To "Crazyville”, “Moon Mania”, And A New Defense Strategy
Apr 07, 2024
Space Competition: Why SpaceX’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” Is Redrawing The Map To Success
Mar 23, 2024
Space Power: 2025 Space Force Budget Slashes Launches, Reduces Buying Power By 5%
Mar 16, 2024
Space Power: Fines On Space Junk In The Pipeline And What’s Legal Salvage
Mar 09, 2024
Space Money: The Fortune 500 View From TE Connectivity’s Martin Cullen
Mar 02, 2024
Space Competition: Can The US Deter Its Adversaries From Launching Cyberattacks on Space Systems?
Feb 25, 2024
Space Power: Securing Space Systems From Cyber Attack - “We Play Whack-A-Mole”
Feb 18, 2024
Space Tech: The Threat Landscape, A Cyber Vulnerability, And Ransoming A Satellite
Feb 10, 2024
Space Money: When Nation States Target The Commercial Space Sector
Feb 03, 2024
Space Tech: A U.S. Space Force Bet That Could Truly Monetize Space Junk… For Real
Jan 27, 2024
Space Power: What the Space Force Needs Now For Cislunar Operations
Jan 20, 2024
SPACE TECH: Is NASA Surrendering The Promise of Space-Based Solar Power to China, ESA, And Japan?
Jan 13, 2024
Space Money: Has Investor Passion Left The Building?
Jan 05, 2024
"It's been Quite A Banner Year For China Militarily, Commercially, Scientifically In Space"
Dec 21, 2023
Chief Master Sergeant Bentivegna: “Why The Identity Portion Is So Important To Us.”
Dec 17, 2023
U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Office: Bankruptcies And Consolidation Are Expected
Dec 08, 2023
Accenture's Anti-Trend Space Investment Strategy
Dec 01, 2023
Starship's Second Flight Test and China's Reaction
Nov 24, 2023
A Rogue Plan: The Right Tool For The Right Job On Orbit
Nov 17, 2023
Space Force Maj. Gen. Olson: ISAM Technology "A Core Part of Our Vision For The Future"
Nov 10, 2023
Space Competition: New Agreement Lights Rocket Under Australia’s Minister of Industry and Science
Nov 04, 2023
South Korea, Space Security, And The Plan To Become A “Space Economy” Power
Oct 27, 2023
Critical Challenges to Protecting Human Habitats on Orbit, on The Moon, and Beyond
Oct 22, 2023
A Permanent Off-World Economy Starts In A Garage With A Gas Cap
Oct 13, 2023
Has The Space Economy Slowdown Hit Bottom?
Oct 07, 2023
China’s Grand Strategy for the Solar System
Sep 30, 2023
The Future of In-Space Security: Views From the C-Suite
Sep 16, 2023
New Space Force Mission Statement…Is It A Brownwater Or A Bluewater Future?
Sep 09, 2023
Building A Secure Cis-Lunar Economy - What’s It Going To Take?
Sep 02, 2023
That Touted DoD Budget Plus-Up Cuts Into Space Force and Seeding Future Military Space Innovation
Aug 26, 2023
India And Russia Are About To Attempt Separate Lunar Landings, Revealing A Fracturing Relationship
Aug 18, 2023
This Space Experiment Will Underpin Off-World Ambition, Commerce, and Colonization
Aug 12, 2023
Comtech’s CEO and “Imagineer” Ken Peterman: Hybrid Space Technologies Are Driving Value Now
Aug 04, 2023
China: More Weird Reports of "Disappearances And Departures"
Jul 28, 2023
Space Force: “Begin With A Clean Sheet Of Paper” - Part 2
Jul 21, 2023
Kimberly Crider: Cyber, Data, Defense, and Space
Jul 15, 2023
Welcome To The Second Half Of 2023!
Jul 07, 2023
The Modi State Visit: U.S and Indian Interests In Space and Defense Converge… Big Time!
Jun 24, 2023
Space Force: “Begin With A Clean Sheet Of Paper” - Part 1
Jun 17, 2023
Space Systems Command Wants More Face Time
Jun 10, 2023
The U.S.-China Moon Race Heats Up
Jun 03, 2023
Cyber & Space: Microsoft Says There’s a Chinese Typhoon in Guam
May 26, 2023
DIU’s “Bucky” Butow, Space Innovation, and the Industrial Base
May 20, 2023
Software Drives Printed Rocket Motors, GSaaS, and New Calls for Collective Cyber Security for Space
May 12, 2023
Want a Cutting Edge Space Space Force? We’ve Got To Talk About Bank Failures.
May 05, 2023
A Missing Lunar Lander, A Mutual Defense Treaty, And “China… China… China”
Apr 28, 2023
SpaceX, Raytheon, And How Not To Land In Space Force CSO’s “Frozen Middle”
Apr 22, 2023
A Moon Landing And a Test Launch - Two Events That Could Change Almost Everything
Apr 14, 2023
Why Virgin Orbit's Chapter 11 Filing and The Silicon Valley Bank Failure Matter
Apr 08, 2023
Japan’s Commercial Moon Mission, Defense Policy, and its Transformer Lunar Rover SORA-Q
Mar 31, 2023
AI Hype is Warranted But What About the Vulnerabilities and Security For Space Operations?
Mar 24, 2023
Space Force Budget, Plus Science Chief Mozer: “We are in a hinge of history moment”
Mar 18, 2023
A Space & Defense Startup Takes Aim at Train and Equip Status Quo
Mar 10, 2023
This is Your Primer on AI, Space, and Defense, not ChatGPT
Mar 04, 2023
China Learns Lessons From Ukraine’s Use of Space
Feb 25, 2023
Should the U.S. Military Defend U.S. Commercial Space Operators Involved In Ukraine?
Feb 17, 2023
David, Goliath, & Space - Is This How Future Wars Will Be Fought?
Feb 10, 2023
How Russia's War in Ukraine Is a Boon for Space Business
Feb 03, 2023
What You Need to Know About The Great Ground Station Game Part 2
Jan 27, 2023
What You Need to Know About The Great Ground Station Game Part 1
Jan 20, 2023
There’s No Need To Be So Toxic!
Jan 13, 2023
Four Space & Finance Experts: What You Need to Know for a “Weird” 2023
Jan 06, 2023
Happy Birthday, Space Force… And Happy New Year
Dec 18, 2022
Rocket Lab & SpaceX: Upping Their Defense Business Game
Dec 11, 2022
Two Technologies That Will Make Space Assets Truly Resilient
Dec 04, 2022
The Era of Xi Jinping: Chinese Space Leaders Take Top Party and Government Jobs
Nov 27, 2022
Russian Sanctions Target U.S. Space & Milley’s “Various Technical Means”
Nov 20, 2022
Ohio Part 2: Could this Rocket Engine Start-Up Launch the Next SpaceX?
Nov 13, 2022
Building The Moon Economy From the Launch Pad Up
Nov 06, 2022
No Satellites, No Economy: What You Need to Know About High Altitude Nuclear Detonation
Oct 30, 2022
“It Is Weird Out There”: Space Economists & Space Capital Market Experts
Oct 23, 2022
What the Biden Administration's New National Security Strategy Is and Isn't for Space Security
Oct 16, 2022
Ohio Part 1: A Space Station Lands in the Rust Belt
Oct 09, 2022
Air Culture Eating Space For Breakfast
Sep 25, 2022
What Should The Next Space Force CSO’s Vision Be?
Sep 18, 2022
Classified Deliberations: Chinese and Russian Weapons Systems Using Space, Options to Counter Them
Sep 12, 2022
Space Based Solar Power - Engineering Economies of Scale on Earth To Be First
Sep 04, 2022
Artemis I & SLS - Not Your Usual Pre-Launch Coverage
Aug 28, 2022
Space-Based Solar Power - ESA Is Primed To Do More Than Admire The Problem
Aug 22, 2022
Space-Based Solar Power and the U.K.'s Bet That Science Fiction May Become Science-Fact
Aug 15, 2022
More Than Norms, Perhaps Space Needs Rules
Aug 08, 2022
What’s Behind Russia’s Departure from the International Space Station
Jul 31, 2022
When is a Space Company the Right Fit for a Community?
Jul 24, 2022
Commercial Space Is Hitting Economic Headwinds
Jul 17, 2022
Look At The Numbers. Are We Serious About Space?
Jul 10, 2022
Why You Should Care That There’s No “Plan B” For Space-Based PNT - Part 2
Jun 27, 2022
Why You Should Care That There’s No “Plan B” For Space-Based PNT
Jun 19, 2022
Is This How To Fix The Hypersonic Weapons Gaps?
Jun 13, 2022
Should America’s Military Go to the Moon? - Part 2
Jun 09, 2022
Should America's Military Go to the Moon? - Part 1
Jun 06, 2022
Will China’s Calculus In Space Change?
May 29, 2022
Why Is The U.S. Using Satellites and Social Media For Russian War Crimes?
May 23, 2022
DOD OIG Releases Space Command HQ Report And A New Space National Guard Bill
May 15, 2022
Modi in Paris Launches Space-Defense Cooperation
May 09, 2022
China Dream Ramps Up
May 01, 2022
Was this ASAT test ban the right thing to do?
Apr 24, 2022
Agreements and Disentanglements: Negotiating With Russia on Space
Apr 17, 2022
What Was Kendall’s Message to the Space Force?
Apr 10, 2022
FY ‘23 Space Force Budget: The Good, The Bad, and The Missed Opportunity
Apr 04, 2022
Russia's War: Needs and Threats Drive Sales
Mar 27, 2022
"Words Matter" - The U.S. Space Force's New Planning Doctrine
Mar 20, 2022
Ukraine's Space Sector Remains Open For Business
Mar 13, 2022
How Is The Space Sector Reacting To And Mitigating Against The Effects Of Russia's War?
Mar 06, 2022
Tech and Financial Sanctions Target Russia's Space Programs
Feb 27, 2022
Are Balloons A Persistent Defense Business Opportunity?
Feb 22, 2022
Russia's Space Programs And Sanctions, Now And In The Future
Feb 13, 2022
Britain's First Defence Space Strategy
Feb 07, 2022
Electronic Warfare: Russia's Answer to U.S. SatCom Superiority
Jan 29, 2022
Tracking Trash For Treasure
Jan 23, 2022
Going Nuclear - Is It The Answer To How To Protect Key Space Assets?
Jan 15, 2022
Continuing Resolution Purgatory: What Lawmakers Really Need to Ask
Jan 09, 2022
The No. 1 Space Issue From 2021 That's Punching Through Into 2022 And Beyond
Dec 31, 2021
In War What DoD Commercial Satellite Service Providers Need to Think About?
Dec 18, 2021
Iridium 33 - A Story for This Moment
Dec 11, 2021
The U.S. National Space Council is Back in Business
Dec 05, 2021
The New Big Deal About Lasers
Nov 27, 2021
Russia's ASAT Test, More Than a Satellite Smash-up
Nov 20, 2021
3 Key Space Takeaways from the Macron-Harris Chat in Paris
Nov 12, 2021
Is Space Critical Infrastructure?
Nov 05, 2021
Gen. Milley - Close to a Modern-Day Sputnik Moment
Oct 29, 2021
China’s Hypersonic Mystery
Oct 23, 2021
Transmission #000
Oct 14, 2021