The Space Economy
235 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith the space economy generating close to a third of a trillion dollars globally each year and headed to being a trillion dollar economy, it's clear more focus needs to be put on what's driving the economy. We'll explore all aspects of the space economy including the trends, opportunities and challenges.
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Episode 31: James Slifierz, CEO of SkyWatch on Democratizing Satellite Data
February 01, 2018 13:37 - 1 hour - 56 MBOn this weeks podcast my guest is James Slifierz, CEO of SkyWatch. James got his start in winning the NASA global SpaceApps Challenge in 2014. He then went on to create SkyWatch to take that initial software idea and develop it into a commercial product. In 2016 his company took the lead in organizing the SpaceApps Challenge for the Waterloo Region. Last year they brought on board the Canadian Space Agency as a partner. Today SkyWatch announced that after a little over 3 1/2 years after winni...
Episode 30: Pekka Laurila, Co-founder and CFO of ICEYE
January 25, 2018 15:58 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBMy guest this week is Pekka Larila, Chief Financial Officer and co-founder of ICEYE.ICEYE is a Finnish company with offices in Poland and the U.S. that bills itself as having the first Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, satellite in a microsatellite form weighing in at less than 100kg.By comparison traditional SART satellites are much larger needing a lot of power to accomplish their mission. The well known Canadian RADARSAT-2 satellite weighs in at 2200kg and the next-generation RADARSAT Cons...
Episode 29: The Humans to Mars Show with Chris Carberry
January 18, 2018 16:34 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBMy guest this week is Chris Carberry, the CEO and co-founder of Explore Mars.Explore Mars is a non-profit that brings aerospace business leaders together with government entities, mediating and facilitating the direct flow of information, and was incorporated in February 2010. Prior to working at Explore Mars, Chris was the Executive Director of the Mars Society for almost two years.In today's show we discussed the ongoing effort for a human mission to Mars and how Explore Mars is bringing or...
Episode 28: China's Space Program in 2018 with Andrew Jones
January 11, 2018 17:46 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBHappy New Year and welcome to the first SpaceQ podcast of 2018. My guest this week is Andrew Jones, a journalist based in Finland who follows China's space program. He writes for gbtimes.com, and has written guest blogs for the Planetary Society as well for SpaceNews.In this weeks podcast Andrew and I are going to delve into China's space program which has set an ambitious schedule of possibly launching more than 40 rockets this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Episode 27: Canadian Space Agency president Sylvain Laporte at the Canadian Space Summit
December 21, 2017 14:05 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThis week on the SpaceQ podcast we're doing something a little different. Instead of interviewing a guest we decided to playback a speech we recorded from the recent Canadian Space Summit held in Ottawa by Canadian Space Agency president Sylvain Laporte. In this speech, Mr. Laporte discusses what he calls “key messages” of the space program from the governments perspective.Please note that this is the last podcast of the year and we’ll return with a new show on Thursday, January 11. From the ...
Episode 26: Michelle Mendes on Small Satellites
December 14, 2017 16:20 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBMy guest this week is Michelle Mendes, the Executive Director and President of the Canadian Space Commerce Association.The Canadian Space Commerce Association is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2007 that describes itself as the national association for the space sector, representing industry, academia, professionals, young entrepreneurs and students. Michelle is also a member of the independent Space Advisory Board created by the government to provide ongoing input on Canada’s space ...
Episode 25: Larry Reeves on the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge
December 07, 2017 18:23 - 42 minutes - 39 MBMy guest this week is Larry Reeves, the founder of the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge. At the recent Canadian Space Society Space Summit I ran into Larry and asked him if he would like to be a guest on the show to talk about this program and provide an update on the current competition.The CSDC is a Canada-wide competition for teams of university students, undergraduate and graduate, to design and build a small satellite. To be clear, this is a competition where the students create their...
Episode 24: Dr. Kazuya Yoshida of Tohoku University, Team Hakuto Google Lunar X Prize and iSpace
November 30, 2017 17:50 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBToday’s show was recorded at the Canadian Space Society’s annual Space Summit in Ottawa on November 21st. Among the keynote speakers invited by the Canadian Space Society are usually two from outside Canada.I spoke with Dr. Kazuya Yoshida of Tohoku University in Japan.Dr. Yoshida is also a Director and Chief Technology Officer of iSpace, a Japanese New Space startup with ambitions to use the moons resources, water to start, to develop a lunar economic base. iSpace also manages the Japanese Go...
Episode 23: Mike Daly and the OSIRIS-REx Mission to Return an Asteroid Sample to Earth
November 23, 2017 18:37 - 35 minutes - 32 MBToday on SpaceQ I’ll be talking with Dr. Michael Daly, Associate Professor at York University. We’ll be talking about the international, though NASA led, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer mission, or as it’s commonly called, OSIRIS-REx.The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid Bennu next August where it will conduct a series of science investigations including returning a sample to Earth to be analyzed. NASA says the...
Episode 22: Ryan Anderson on the Satellite Canada Innovation Network and the Canadian Space Summit
November 16, 2017 17:03 - 25 minutes - 23 MBMy guest is Ryan Anderson. It’s Ryan’s second time on the show having been my guest on Episode 8. Ryan’s back to provide an update on the Satellite Canada Innovation Network which wasn’t selected as a finalist by the government in the Innovation Superclusters Initiative.No matter, Satellite Canada is moving forward anyway. Ryan will also talk about next weeks Canadian Space Summit in Ottawa, for which he’s the chair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 21: Steve Matier, CEO of Maritime Launch Services on Nova Scotia's Spaceport
November 09, 2017 12:08 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBMaritime Launch Services is targeting May 1, 2018 to break ground and begin construction on Canada's first commercial spaceport which would be based in Nova Scotia.On Friday, November 3, 2017 I interviewed Maritime Launch Services (MLS) CEO Steve Matier. As you'll hear in the podcast they are in the "final closing" of their Series A financing and already working on the next round. As Matier points out, this is a commercial project with no funding coming from either the Canadian or Ukrainian g...
Episode 20: Robert Zee, Space Flight Laboratory, a Pioneer in the Evolution of Small Satellites
November 02, 2017 17:39 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBDr. Robert Zee is the only director the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace has known since its inception in 1998. Over the years SFL has been an innovator in the field of small satellites and without question can be regarded as one of its pioneers. Robert is my guest on this weeks podcast.What started as an idea has involved into a educational powerhouse in the small satellite field. SFL has produced engineers that have gone on to be part of star...
Episode 19: Jeff Manber, CEO of NanoRacks, New Space Entrepreneur Unfiltered
October 26, 2017 16:40 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBToday on SpaceQ my guest is Jeff Manber, CEO of NanoRacks. Jeff has a degree in neuroscience and started his career in media, so how did he become the successful space entrepreneur that he is today? That story and others are part of this candid interview.Some of the topics we discuss:- Jeff's background and ability to work internationally where others have problems- Russia's commercial space program in the 90's and today- Making the Mir Space Station commercial- Tourists in space, Lance Bass ...
Episode 18: Dan Goldberg of Telesat on their LEO Satellite Constellation and Canada's Space Future
October 19, 2017 13:45 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBToday on SpaceQ I’ll be talking with Dan Goldberg, CEO of Telesat. Telesat is a leading global satellite operator based in Ottawa. Dan’s been the Chief Executive at Telesat since 2006. Before working at Telesat he had been CEO at SES New Skies. And for those with long memories, Dan was also Associate General Counsel and Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at PanAmSat.Telesat is charting a new course in developing a low earth orbit constellation of satellites, 117 of them plus ...
Episode 17: The Montreal Space Symposium
October 12, 2017 15:13 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBToday on SpaceQ I’m going to discuss the Montreal Space Symposium in two segments which were recorded at the conference on Thursday, October 5th.The Montreal Space Symposium is a new conference that was conceived of and organized by students. In the span of just over two months seven people from different universities pooled their efforts to organize this two day conference. The organizers brought together 12 student associations from Montreal, what they are now calling the Montreal Student S...
Episode 16: Keith Cowing on NASA's New Administrator, Elon Musk, SpaceX and a New Mars Base
October 05, 2017 01:09 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBToday I have the pleasure of having Keith Cowing as my guest. Keith is my business partner, having co-founded SpaceRef with me 18 years ago.Before we worked together Keith was the founder of NASA Watch 20 years ago. Keith edits NASA Watch, SpaceRef and the Astrobiology websites on a daily basis.Today we’re going to talk about Jim Bridenstine nomination as NASA Administrator by the Trump administration, last weeks update by Elon Musk on the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System and Lockheed M...
Episode 15: Matt Bamsey Talks Safe Food Production in Space and His Astronaut Recruitment Experience
September 28, 2017 11:42 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBMy guest today is Matt Bamsey a Research Associate at the DLR, the German Space Agency. Matt is Canadian and was one of the 17 finalists in the Canadian Space Agency astronaut recruitment campaign. Before joining the DLR in 2013, Matt had been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Florida and the University of Guelph where he received his PhD in Environmental Biology. He had also previously worked at the Canadian Space Agency.I first met Matt at the Haughton Mars Crater on De...
Episode 14: Ewan Reid on His Company Mission Control Space Services
September 21, 2017 12:50 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBMy guest today is Ewan Reid, founder of Mission Control Space Services (MCSS), a new company offering a variety of services including their Autonomous Soil Assessment System used to help rovers safely explore the surface of the moon and Mars. As well, MCSS has launched an educational program, Mission Control Academy.Ewan discussed their programs, the companies philosophy and offered a glimpse of their future products. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 13: Stephane Germain on Building a Company to Monitor Greenhouse Gasses Emissions From Space
September 14, 2017 14:58 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn this weeks podcast we spoke with Stephane Germain, CEO of GHGSat. GHGSat is an early stage company based in Montreal looking to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse and air quality gas emissions from industrial sites.To accomplish their goal GHGSat is using their patented technology in a sensor placed on a small satellite. Their first satellite, a demonstration satellite called Claire, has just completed its first year in orbit, proving out the technology, though th...
Episode 12: Graham Gibbs on the Space Advisory Board Report
September 07, 2017 19:12 - 1 hour - 61 MBCanada hasn't had a National Space Policy since 1974. Currently the government is looking to announce a new Space Strategy this fall. Recently the Space Advisory Board released its report after concluding consultations with stakeholders. On today's show we'll get insights on space policy from Graham Gibbs.Graham joined the Canadian Space Agency in 1988 and spent 22 years in Washington where he first served as the Head of the Canadian Space Agency office at the NASA Space Station Freedom Prog...
Episode 11: Joshua Kutryk, Back to Basic Training, Astronaut Basic Training
August 24, 2017 13:19 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBOn Canada’s 150th Birthday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced Canada’s two newest astronaut recruits. It was a life changing day for them. For Lieutenant-Colonel Joshua Kutryk, it’s a day he won’t soon forget.Its been almost 8 weeks since Joshua was introduced to the public. And this week he’s going back to basic training, that is, astronaut basic training, where over the next two years he’ll learn the basics skills needed to be certified an astronaut.For the Fort Saskatchewan native, ...
Episode 10: MDA's Canadian Future and the Critical Need for a New Space Strategy
August 17, 2017 16:36 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MB"We're on a cliff." That's how Don Osborne, President of MDA's Information Systems in Canada, described the current status in Canada without a new space strategy in place. But before you get too alarmed, Osborne did say he's optimistic that the government is listening, which suggests that a new meaningful space strategy is forthcoming.In the tenth episode of the SpaceQ podcast I spoke with Don Osborne, President of MDA's Information Systems Group. Osborne's role is to manage MDA's operations ...
Episode 9: Moon vs Mars and Infrastructure and Imagination Leadership
August 10, 2017 13:30 - 46 minutes - 43 MBIn this episode I welcome back Wayne Ellis, a space and defence consultant with AppSpace Solutions of Winnipeg, and a past president of the Canadian Space Society.In today's show, Wayne and I discussed some of the notable current events and touched on the ongoing debate of Moon vs Mars, and what the government provides in the way of of infrastructure and imagination leadership.Here are the topics for today's show:- Moon vs Mars (0:41 - 11:44)- SmallSats and Big Data (11:45 - 21:33)- More wate...
Episode 8: Now this is Important - Canada's Space Community Stands with Satellite Canada
August 03, 2017 15:38 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBIn episode 8 of the SpaceQ podcast our guest is Ryan Anderson the lead organizer of Satellite Canada, an organization created to compete for a piece of the governments new $950 million Innovation Superclusters Initiative.Recently the government announced its Innovation Superclusters Initiative where it would invest $950 million in up to five superclusters. Each supercluster will be funded in the amount of $150-$250 million and selected organizations must match the federal funding.After the go...
Episode 7: Mission Approved - Bob Richards on the Moon Express Plan to Commercialize the Moon
July 27, 2017 16:55 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBMoon Express has raised $45 million(US), built hardware, tested some of it, and gotten the FAA and other government agencies to approve of its first commercial mission to the moon, and in less than a year might have its first spacecraft on the moon.In this episode of the SpaceQ podcast Bob Richards, CEO and co-founder of Moon Express talks about the latest news from the company, including how lunar samples they return could be worth tens of millions, possibly even hundreds of millions. If tru...
Episode 6: Current Events in the Canadian Space Community and the U.S. National Space Council
July 20, 2017 17:35 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBThe latest SpaceQ podcast is out and this week we're doing something a little different. My guest is Wayne Ellis, a space and defence consultant with AppSpace Solutions of Winnipeg who was also a past president of the Canadian Space Society.Instead of an interview, Wayne and I discussed some of the notable current events including Canada's new astronauts and the value of the astronaut program, the Space Advisory Board space strategy consultation, the government's Innovation Superclusters Init...
Episode 5: Small Rockets, Small Satellites and Possibly a Big Payday
July 13, 2017 17:01 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBMy guest today is Jim Cantrell, CEO and founder of Vector Space Systems.Vector Space Systems may be a company that’s only a year old, but it's built on a strong heritage of individuals, hardware and they recently closed their Series A round of founding with Sequoia Capital for $21 million.They are building a family of launch vehicles and a small satellite constellation to become the Amazon Web Services in the sky. They are entering a market space where there is a shortage of small satellite l...
Episode 4: Gears, Transmissions and Moon Rovers, the ODG Story
June 29, 2017 16:33 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBMy guest today is Peter Visscher, Chief Technology Officer at Ontario Drive and Gear.Ontario Drive and Gear is not your typical space company. In fact, for most of its 55 year history, Ontario Drive and Gear had nothing to do with space, that is until 2008. And still today, this New Hamburg based business, just west of Kitchener-Waterloo, is still primarily known for developing gears and transmission systems as well as their ARGO all terrain vehicles.How they got involved in the space sector ...
Episode 3: The Space Security Index and Canada
June 22, 2017 19:06 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBMy guest today is Jessica West who is the Project Manager for the annual Space Security Index published by Project Ploughshares.The Space Security Index tracks developments and activities related to four indicators of the security of outer space - environmental sustainability, access to and use of space, technologies for space security, and space governance - to capture long-term changes.Today, we’ll discuss several topics from the latest Space Security Index including space debris, commercia...
Short Take Episode 4: Game Changing Space-Based Flight Tracking System Closer to Reality
June 19, 2017 22:02 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBOn January 14th of this year, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched the first 10 satellites of the Iridium Next satellite constellation. Shortly, another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch with the next 10 satellites in the constellation to be deployed.Ahead of the scheduled launch, Aireon CEO Don Thoma participated in a media briefing. Here are his comments on the progress Aireon has been making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 2: Canada's Needs a General Outer Space Law
June 15, 2017 12:01 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBMy guest for episode 2 is Aram Kerkonian, a lawyer from Ontario, studying a masters in law and a research assistant of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University and the co-author of the recently completed Independent Review of the Remote Sensing Space Systems Act.The department of Global Affairs Canada tasked the Institute of Air and Space Law to complete the independent review, the second by the Institute, the first having been completed in 2012.As part of its recommendations t...
Episode 1: Sylvain Laporte, President, Canadian Space Agency
June 08, 2017 11:45 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBWelcome to episode 1 of the SpaceQ podcast. Our guest for the show is Sylvain Laporte, the president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).Mr. Laporte joined SpaceQ via telephone on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Since this was the first interview we've ever conducted with Mr. Laporte, we discussed a variety of topics including the current astronaut selection initiative, the CSA's budget, a policy issue, the upcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission, climate change, space commercializa...
Short Take 3: Steve Oldham of SSL on the Orbital ATK Lawsuit
March 31, 2017 12:33 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBShort Take is a feature of SpaceQ where we take excerpts from a longer interview and embed them into the article on our website at https://spaceq.ca.In today's Short Take I asked Steve Oldham, Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development at SSL, for a comment on the new lawsuit SSL filed versus Orbital ATK regarding the data breach on a NASA server. Steve didn't hold back with his comment.Read the story: https://spaceq.ca/is-the-data-breach-by-orbital-atk-of-ssl-data-on-a-nasa-server...
Short Take 2: Mike Safyan of Planet Labs
February 09, 2017 22:56 - 6 minutes - 6.06 MBShort Take is a feature of SpaceQ where we take excerpts from a longer interview and embed them into the article on our website at http://spaceq.ca.In today’s Short Take I spoke with Mike Safyan and Rachel Holm of Planet Labs.Planet Labs is an earth observation company who see growth opportunities in Canada. In mid-2015 they acquired Blackbridge of Lethbridge, Alberta and their RapidEye constellation of 5 satellites. They also hope to open a ground station in Inuvik sometime this year.Here's...
Short Take 1: John Isella of Maritime Launch Services
February 06, 2017 04:05 - 5 minutes - 4.59 MBShort Take is a new feature to SpaceQ where we take excerpts from a longer interview and embed them into the article on our website at spaceq.ca. In today’s Short Take I spoke with John Isella, of Maritime Launch Services who are looking to open a Spaceport in Nova Scotia for a medium class satellite launch service.Here's the link to the story: https://spaceq.ca/maritime-launch-services-to-decide-on-nova-scotia-spaceport-in-march/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.