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SSPI

Space & Satellite Professionals International

This is the official podcast of the Space & Satellite Professionals International. On this channel, we release podcasts in two series: Making Leaders and Better Satellite World. Find out more about SSPI at www.sspi.org

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44:21

Satellites & Ukraine, Episode 1 - War Intel from...

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2022/04/03

The first episode of the Satellites & Ukraine podcast series features a conversation with Peter B. de Selding, Co-Founder and Chief Editor of SpaceIntelReport and a Member of the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame. In a conversation with SSPI Director of Development Louis Zacharilla, Peter discusses the role satellites have played in coverage of the war. Peter B. de Selding delivered more than 20 years of incisive coverage of the commercial space and satellite industry as Paris bureau chief of SpaceNews

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01:12:26

Better Satellite World Podcast: I Can't Get No . . ....

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2022/03/27

Is the market for commercial space financing ventures and growth overheated? Are you in the early stages of a revolution or are you late to the party for financing? Why aren’t you getting financing? Or why did you? (And can you get more?) Where are we in the cycle of financing for various types of commercial space company ventures? While some get financing easily, others struggle. How DO you get financing for space and satellite ventures? What is the reality for financing in this market? Does space

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01:15:45

Better Satellite World Podcast: SPAC Crackle Pop

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2022/03/19

Are SPAC-fed space companies headed for a disaster? SPACs have been a dynamic and transformative funding vehicle. An innovation say many. But commercial space may not be the right place for them, or a perfect one. In February’s New York Space Business Roundtable, we ask the questions: Is an IPO the right model for a space company? Can any space company scale fast enough to satisfy most SPACs when we are talking light years and not next year? The NY Space Business Roundtable takes an objective look

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29:21

Better Satellite World Podcast: A Conversation with...

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2022/03/11

Beginning in June 2021, UltiSat partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide satellite communications services in support of the emergency operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC is host to one of the largest internally displaced populations in Africa, with more than 92,000 refugees seeking asylum in its northern region after fleeing post-election conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR). The displacement has placed tremendous

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22:01

Better Satellite World Podcast: A Conversation with...

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2022/03/04

Speedcast has a long history of providing humanitarian aid and NGO connectivity solutions. Recently, the company partnered with the non-profit organization Willka Yachay to provide connectivity to the Q’eros tribe in the Andes Mountains of Peru. The Q’eros are some of the last living descendents of Incan tribes, and they live a difficult, isolated life without access to modern education, health and technology services. In 2010, an American student named Hannah Rae Porst traveled to Peru and spent

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36:01

Better Satellite World Podcast: A Conversation with...

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2022/02/24

Over the course of a more than 25-year career in space and satellite, Christodoulos Protopappas has promoted satellite communications and connectivity across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. He founded Hellas Sat, the national satellite operator of Greece and Cyprus, in 2001 and has served as its CEO for 20 years. Today, Hellas Sat operates a fleet of three geostationary (GEO) satellites that serve locations across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. The company has

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51:38

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 7: Satellite Tools

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2022/02/19

In this seventh and final episode of This Planet’s on Fire, we hear from Dr. Heather Lynch, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in New York and Chris McCormick, Founder and Chairman of PlanetiQ/Global Weather & Climate Solutions. Dr. Lynch and Chris join SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla to talk about how satellites are used as tools for a range of important aspects of the climate, including weather and ecology, which are the main focus of the conversation.

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28:56

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 6: Waters Flowing

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2022/02/11

In this sixth episode of This Planet's on Fire, we hear from Dr. Joel Kimmelshue, Principal Scientist and co-founder of Land IQ. Land IQ provides solutions to challenging agricultural and environmental problems throughout the world. Dr. Kimmelshue joins SSPI's Lou Zacharilla to talk about the role of satellites in managing water and describes what it feels like for farmers to be working in drought conditions when their livelihoods depend on water.

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46:11

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 5: Code Blue

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2022/02/04

In this fifth episode of This Planet's on Fire, SSPI's Lou Zacharilla speaks with Nicole Stott, author and retired NASA astronaut. Nicole talks about her new book: Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet - and Our Mission to Protect It and how when she first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home.

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59:10

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 4: Satellites Boosting...

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2022/01/29

In a conversation hosted by NYSA’s Joe Fargnoli and SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla, Paul Gloyer, President of Gloyer-Taylor Labs LLC; Douglas Helmuth, Remote Sensing Scientist and Former Principal Investigator at Lockheed Martin SSC (now retired); and Sanjay Wagle, co-founder and Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group, talk about what meaningful business cases can be made for sustainable technologies in space and satellite. This podcast is based on the recent New York Space Business Roundtable

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44:56

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 3: Agriculture - How...

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2022/01/21

In a conversation with SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla, Wade Barnes, co-founder and CEO of Farmers Edge; Prateep Basu, CEO of SatSure (a Better Satellite World Award recipient in 2020); and Sanjay Wagle, co-founder and Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group, talk about the major risks in agriculture today, business models and innovations that use satellite-based information to transform agricultural practices and the impacts of climate change on agriculture and investment.

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24:46

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 2: Methane, the...

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2022/01/14

In a conversation with SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla, Dr. Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, talks about MethaneSAT, which locates and measures methane emissions from oil and gas operations around the world with precision and at a scale never achieved, providing valuable data for making decisions on climate change. In his role at EDF, Dr. Hamburg works to ensure that EDF’s advocacy is based on the best available science.

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50:46

This Planet's on Fire, Episode 1: Climate Change &...

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2022/01/07

In this first episode of This Planet's on Fire, we hear an overview of what the satellite industry has done and is currently doing in the fight against climate change. Can we engineer our way out of this crisis? Probably not. But what we are doing as a technology and an industry is helping people realize the steps that need to be taken. NASA Division Director of the Earth Science Division Dr. Karen St. Germain and ESOA Secretary General Aarti Holla-Maini join SSPI's Lou Zacharilla to bring a global

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31:16

Making Leaders - Raven Moreland - 2021 Promise Award...

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2021/12/23

Raven joined Ball Aerospace in early 2020 as a Systems Engineer and currently serves as lead for the Electrical Power Distribution Subsystem (EPDS) on NASA’s SPHEREx program, which will conduct the first near-infrared all-sky spectral survey to study the cosmic origins of the universe and galaxies. Her contributions to the EPDS on the SPHEREx program have already proven invaluable in her 14 months spent on the project. In her first 6 months on the project, She was responsible for researching and

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21:26

Making Leaders - Sydney Hamilton - 2021 Promise Award...

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2021/12/18

Sydney began her career at Boeing in 2014 as a Structural Design Engineer, a role in which she supported projects like the 777 Automated Floor Drilling Equipment Elimination & Floor Redesign project and the 777X Folding Wing-Tip Mock-Up. She also worked in the Commercial Aircraft Operations Center as a Service Engineer before moving on to become a Mechanical Systems Engineer designing, analyzing and managing projects for additively manufactured parts for space and launch systems. Sydney next took on

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16:20

Making Leaders - Kelsey Doerksen - 2021 Promise Award...

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2021/12/12

Kelsey joined Planet in February 2020 after completing a series of internships at the Paris Observatory and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. In her current role at Planet, she is responsible for identifying, triaging, root causing and resolving satellite anomalies and performing fleet-wide health check-ins for the largest Earth Observation satellite constellation in the world. Kelsey also has extensive experience in using Python to develop tools for autonomous satellite operations and in creating and

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19:17

Making Leaders - Mentor of the Year 2021 - Donna Potter

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2021/12/06

Until her retirement in 2019, Donna Potter served as Senior Executive Director of Research and Development at Maxar, after she originally took on the position at Space Systems/Loral (SSL) in 2011. She managed the research and development portfolio for SSL and later Maxar, furthering the technologies the company needed to remain competitive in the GEO communication satellite market.

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01:22:31

Better Satellite World: ESG: Social Factors of the...

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2021/11/28

How can new space companies manage their relationships with their workforce, the societies in which they operate, and the political environment? This is the central question behind the “S” in ESG investing — the social aspect of sustainable investing and business management. A number of social factors can affect a company’s performance, ranging from short- to long-term challenges. Social factors to consider include a company’s strengths and weaknesses in dealing with social trends, labor, and

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55:59

The New PPP: Making Space for Space - From White...

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2021/11/14

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42:03

The New PPP: Making Space for Space - Sharpening the...

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2021/11/07

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