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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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01:11:02

Untangling the Supply Chain, Episode 6: If Taiwan...

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2022/06/03

The bombs falling in Ukraine have raised major geopolitical issues in Asia. One in particular will seriously impact the future of the commercial space industry. Taiwan’s significance to the world’s supply chain, high-value technology base, microprocessors and the civil life and laws upon which democracy depends are not always considered when we casually ask, “If Taiwan Goes, What Else Goes With It?” Could the industry be a casualty of a Chinese invasion? In this podcast, based on the May 2022

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32:24

Untangling the Supply Chain, Episode 5: Humanitarian...

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2022/05/28

How do satellites support supply chains for humanitarian efforts? Satellites can help to facilitate the communication that enables humanitarian agencies and regions to establish corridors and logistics chains, while monitoring the effort, managing data, chronicling refugee flight and resettlement. In this fifth episode of the Untangling the Supply Chain podcast, David Myers, President and CEO of UltiSat, and David Meltzer, Secretary General of Global VSAT Forum, join SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla to

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27:01

Untangling the Supply Chain, Episode 4: Humanitarian...

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2022/05/22

How do satellites support supply chains for humanitarian efforts? Satellites can help to facilitate the communication that enables humanitarian agencies and regions to establish corridors and logistics chains, while monitoring the effort, managing data, chronicling refugee flight and resettlement. In this fourth episode of the Untangling the Supply Chain podcast, David Myers, President and CEO of UltiSat, and David Meltzer, Secretary General of Global VSAT Forum, join SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla to

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54:11

Untangling the Supply Chain, Episode 3: Satellite...

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2022/05/15

Communication and earth observation satellites play an essential but too-little-known role in managing the world’s supply chains. The solutions call on spacecraft in every orbit, carrying every payload and operating in every commercial frequency band. They also call on the ingenuity and determination of experts in engineering, manufacturing, operations and analytics to provide the crucial data and communications that help their customers keep the world supplied. In this podcast, based on the May

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27:01

Untangling the Supply Chain, Episode 2: Who Are the...

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2022/05/06

As the manufacturing of rockets and spacecraft moves from one-at-a-time craft work to rapid iteration and assembly-line production, it is changing the talent needs of employers. What changes are taking place? What new career paths must be laid out to attract the best-qualified workers? And how does the company itself need to be re-imagined for a new world? In this second episode of Untangling the Supply Chain, Brad Laird, VP of Engineering at NXTCOMM and Damon Tolley, Director of Human Resources at

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22:36

Untangling the Supply Chain, Episode 1: How to Create...

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2022/04/30

When Airbus OneWeb Satellites began mass production of the OneWeb satellite constellation, it had to develop and manage a global supply chain that could operate at unprecedented speed to make possible the manufacturing of two satellites per day. In this podcast, Airbus OneWeb Satellites Chief Supply Chain Officer John Meikle joins SSPI's Robert Bell to explore how that chain was linked together and kept running – and how it copes with the major disruptions of 2020.

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42:26

Satellites & Ukraine, Episode 4: Space as the New...

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2022/04/22

The fourth episode of the Satellites & Ukraine podcast series features a conversation with Nick Reese, Deputy Director for Emerging Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In a conversation with SSPI Director of Development Louis Zacharilla, Nick shares his view of where we are in the current climate of war, cyber-threats and the future of government’s relationship to the space & satellite community. Nick Reese is the Deputy Director for Emerging Technology Policy at the U.S

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40:01

Satellites & Ukraine, Episode 3: Ensuring...

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2022/04/16

The third episode of the Satellites & Ukraine podcast series features a conversation with Nick Burrett, Senior Sales Manager at Speedcast. In a conversation with SSPI Director of Development Louis Zacharilla, Nick discusses the role satellites have played in maintaining vital communications during wartime in Ukraine. Nick Burrett is Senior Sales Manager at Speedcast, a position he has held for 4 years. Before joining Speedcast, he spent 5 years as a Sales Manager at SES. Nick has held senior sales

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26:31

Satellites & Ukraine, Episode 2: Strategy Informed by...

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2022/04/09

The second episode of the Satellites & Ukraine podcast series features a conversation with Warren Ferster, Strategic Communications Consultant and Former Editor-in-Chief for SpaceNews magazine. In a conversation with SSPI Director of Development Louis Zacharilla, Warren discusses the role satellites have played in coverage and informing policy during the war. Warren Ferster is a Strategic Communications Consultant, Writer and Analyst with 25 years of experience reporting on and analyzing global

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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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