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Space Forward Podcast

Space Forward examines our future in space, discerning science fiction from science fact. Through insightful conversations with forward-thinking visionaries, we deconstruct the challenges and opportunities for space exploration, breaking down complex concepts into first principles.

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Episode 18︱Adopting Strategic Foresight to Shape Our...

Space Forward Podcast ·

2023/11/15

Join us for a space forward-thinking conversation with Kara Cunzeman, systems director of Strategic Foresight at the Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy.Kara talks to us about Strategic Foresight, a holistic approach toward facing future uncertainties. Strategic Foresight isn’t mind reading, but rather mind mapping. It’s a tool that helps us address tough questions like - How do we navigate difficult issues in space policy to arrive at a preferred future - or - How do we

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Episode 17︱Exploring Lunar Governance with Antonino...

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2023/09/21

Who owns what on the moon? Legally, nobody according to the United Nation’s Outer Space Treaty. With an array of space agencies and private companies destined to launch a multitude of lunar missions in the coming decades, the principles of the 1967 treaty will be put to the test. How will we mediate the multiple stakeholders set to explore the moon? For answers, we turn to space lawyer Antonino Salmeri, who specializes in the governance of space resources and lunar activities. Salmeri is a policy

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Episode 16 ︱Delving into the Thermodynamics of Alien...

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2023/07/13

Blast off with Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center. We delve into the latest scientific methods in the search for technosignatures or evidence of extraterrestrial technologies. Coined by the astronomer Jill Tarter, a co-founder of the SETI Institute, technosignatures encompass communicative signals such as radio waves and laser emissions from other stars across and beyond the electromagnetic

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Episode 15 ︱Unleashing Self-Replicating Robots for a...

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2023/06/13

Will extraterrestrial, self-replicating robotic systems pave the way for building a sustainable industrial lunar ecology? Self-replicating robots are machines that can replicate themselves using materials found in their environment. The concept of self-replicating systems has been around for decades, ever since the mathematician John Von Neumann proposed theoretical models in the 1950s. Since then, research toward building self-replicating machines has evolved with advancements in robotic systems,

Episode 14 ⎜Advancing Geoinformatics with Thomas...

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2022/11/15

From predicting destructive landslides and urban traffic jams, to tracking illegal deforestation and human rights abuses, Dr. Thomas Blaschke’s research work analyzing Big Earth Data helps address real world solutions. Tune in now for Episode 14: Advancing Geoinformatics to discover our emerging Digital Earth, and the future possibility of developing a new field of academic inquiry, Astroinformatics!

Episode 13 ︱Encoding a New Golden Record with...

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2022/09/14

How to design a durable and decipherable message for an intelligent species elsewhere in the cosmos? We talk to team members from the International Space University's Space Studies Program about their project Eternal Echo, an assignment to create an updated version of the Golden Record, a gold-plated copper disk of sounds and images affixed to both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. Team members explain their methodologies and ponder the implications of Messaging Extra Terrestrial Life

Episode12 ⎪Leveraging Nanosatellites for Data Network...

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2022/08/17

Space Forward talks the CEO of Spire Global, Peter Platzer, one of the few space entrepreneurs who predicted early on the exponential growth and value of nano-satellites, as well as their impactful role toward harnessing big data for solving problems here on Earth.

Episode 11︱Finding Intelligent Life in the Cosmos...

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2022/01/12

In this second installment, we continue our discussion with Harvard Professor Avi Loeb. We discuss ― Life In The Cosmos ― an academic textbook he co-authored with Manasvi Lingam which provides an analysis of the latest scientific methodologies for detecting life beyond our planet. We dive into the Kardashev Scale, a theoretical model for classifying stages the development of intelligent alien civilizations based on energy consumption, and the potential of applying a modified version, based on a more

Episode 10︱Finding Intelligent Life in the Cosmos ―...

Space Forward Podcast ·

2021/11/17

In this episode, we talk with astrophysicist Avi Loeb about what he thinks we might find in the observable universe. Will it be biosignatures that will reveal extraterrestrial life? Or technosignatures, evidence of a past or present alien technology? Join us as he discusses his latest book Life in Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures, the possibilities of self-replicating, artificial intelligent von Neumann probes, and the absurdness - or not - of eating aliens! Professor Avi Loeb is the

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Episode 9︱Appraising and Grading Near Earth Orbit...

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2021/06/14

We discuss Earth's first on-orbit satellite inspection service with William Crowe, CEO of the Australian startup High Earth Orbit Robotics, who is on a quest to “makes space assets transparent”. We unpack how this space start up pivoted from asteroid mining to space situational awareness, and future business to scale for the Moon, asteroids, and beyond!

Episode 8⎪The Breakthrough of Gram Scale Space Crafts...

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2021/06/04

In this episode, we will explore the rapid miniaturization of spacecraft, commonly known as Chipsats, Wafersats, Sprites, Monarchs, Kicksats, Starchips, or even just “Smart Dust” with Zachary Manchester, who received critical acclaim for his crowdfunded Kicksat project, deploying an armada of chipsats in LEO. Manchester is also a researcher with the Breakthrough Starshot team, working on an interstellar spacecraft mission to Proxima b.

Episode 7 ⎪Democratizing Access to Space With MIT

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2021/05/25

In this episode, we talk to Mehak Sarang, research lead at MIT’s Lunar Open Architecture project ― a tokenized, crowd-sourced, sharing-economy-like satellite constellation that functions as a public utility. The project is housed at MIT’s Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative with the goal “to invent, create, and deploy ideas that seem exotic and impossible today, but could be commonplace in ten years.”

Episode 6 ⎪The Start-Up of Space Marketplaces

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2021/05/06

In this episode, we talk about the rise of the space marketplace and how the Satsearch Product Knowledge Graph helps solve problems for space marketplace users. What kind of Acquisition Loops work best in the space sector, what does their Experiment Framework look like, and should space marketplaces scale vertically or horizontally? Our guest is Narayan Prasad, co-founder, and COO of Satsearch, a global marketplace for the space industry, accelerated by the European Space Agency.

Episode 5 ⎪Space Commerce ⏤ The Ecstasy of Gold

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2021/04/16

We talk to Matthew Weinzierl, an Associate Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Weinzierl has worked as an economist for McKinsey & Company and The White House Council of Economic Advisors. Professor Weinzierl’s early research focuses on the optimal design of economic policy, and more recently he has launched an array of projects focused on the commercialization of the space sector and its economic implications.

Episode 4 │Investing in Space Start-Ups ⏤ Best Practices

Space Forward Podcast ·

2021/04/01

In this episode, we seek to understand the decision-making environment in which Space Business Angels operate and the mindset they follow when making investment decisions ― exploring best practices, and getting an industry outlook from those with skin in the game.

Episode 3 │The Physics of Space Travel - Engineering...

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2021/03/16

In this episode, we’ll take you on a deep dive into the physics of space travel. Are we merely grappling with a challenging engineering problem or will new breakthroughs toward an entirely new physics be required in order to utilize space to its fullest potential?

Episode 2 │A Space for Humanity ⏤ Ethics and...

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2021/02/16

In this episode, we talk to Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty and examine the bottlenecks toward international and intercultural collaboration here on Earth, preventing humanity from becoming a prosperous, inclusive, and peaceful multi-planetary species.

Episode 1 ︱Seeking Beyond the Rocket Equation ― The...

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2021/01/15

This episode has at its core the implications of Tsiolkovsky’s rocket equation, which figures the hard limits of rocket-based payload transportation to Earth’s orbit. We uncover alternatives with Joshua Bernard-Cooper, a researcher at the International Space Elevator Consortium.

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