SSPI Podcast
This is the podcast of the Space & Satellite Professionals International. On this channel, we release podcasts in two series: Better Satellite World and Making Leaders.
SSPI releases a new podcast every Monday.
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Featured Podcasts
BETTER SATELLITE WORLD
The Best of the Better
In this special Better Satellite World podcast, SSPI Director of Engagement Tamara Bond-Williams interviews none other than our host, SSPI Director of Innovation Lou Zacharilla. They discuss some of the most entertaining and intriguing podcasts Lou has had the privilege to record over the years, culminating in Lou’s favorite podcast of all time, what he considers the Best of the Better Satellite World. Then in part 2, you get to hear Lou’s favorite episode, which originally aired as The Road Less Travelled, Episode 1: Joining Faith and Science in a Journey Through the Stars.
BETTER SATELLITE WORLD
The Last Human Election: How AI Will Influence Space Policy and Culture
In this Better Satellite World podcast, based on the June 2024 edition of the New York Space Business Roundtable, our panel of experts takes a hard-nosed look at how the public and private sectors share the world of AI. Among other questions, we ask: What role will AI have on military applications in space and on the ability to anticipate threats and opportunities that the commercial sector can benefit from? And while space is increasingly a warfare theater, will it also become a culture which, through commerce and global cooperation, becomes a place where conflicts are “de-risked”? You’ll hear from Dr. James Cunningham, DoD Business Development at Wallaroo; Chris Cummins, Chief of Staff at Voyager Space; Stuart Daughtridge, Senior VP of Advanced Technology at Kratos, Chairman of DIFI and Finalist 2023 Satellite Executive of the Year; and Jeremy Fand, Co-Founder and CEO, SeerAI, Inc.
BETTER SATELLITE WORLD
The Promise
In this Better Satellite World podcast series, we ask the question: “What would you do if you had the power to make the world a better place during your career?” Joining SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla to answer that question in the seventh and final episode are 3 members of the “20 Under 35” cohort of 2023: Andrew Chau, Space Mission Program Manager at Millennium Space Systems (A Boeing Company), Bhavi Jagatia, Astrodynamics Engineer at Planet and Matej Poliacek, ISS Flight Operations Engineer & STRATOS Flight Control Team Deputy Lead at DLR – German Aerospace Centre.
SSPI-WISE PRESENTS
New Ideas in Space Safety
A sustainable space environment for machines and people is a basic condition for the space economy. It is how we will maintain access to orbit and achieve the commercial success the industry dreams of. Until now, the world has relied on treaties and cooperation among business and government to keep space safe. As the value of space grows, that approach is fast running out of runway. In the podcast series of Reducing the Risks of Space, Part 2: New Ideas in Space Safety, we explore policy, law, technology and operations in development now to manage the challenging space environment of the future. The second episode features a conversation with Merissa Velez, Chief of the Satellite Programs and Policy Division at the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Space Bureau.
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