The DownLink Podcast

The DownLink

From the Defense & Aerospace Report... This is The DownLink Podcast, hosted by Laura Winter. From the intersection of space, business, and defense... Not just what's over the horizon, but what's happening above it. The DownLink Podcast is 2023, 2024, and 2025 Defense Media Award-winner.

  1. Space Money: Q2 2026 — Deals, Divestitures, and Big Checks

    3日前

    Space Money: Q2 2026 — Deals, Divestitures, and Big Checks

    Rocket Lab is acquiring Iridium for $8 billion. Honeywell split in two. Driven by SpaceX, the first half of 2026, especially the second quarter, delivered a remarkable wave of high-value space business activity in the public and private markets. Laura Winter speaks with Chris Quilty, Founder and CEO of Quilty Space, and Lou Whiteman, aerospace and space analyst at The Motley Fool.

    36分
  2. Space Power: Executing the International Strategy — Air Marshal Paul Godfrey

    6月26日

    Space Power: Executing the International Strategy — Air Marshal Paul Godfrey

    With a NATO Summit two weeks away and Washington pressing allies to take on more, Air Marshal Paul Godfrey explains how a year of executing the U.S. Space Force's International Partnership Strategy is turning allied integration from plan into practice. Laura Winter speaks with Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, RAF, Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, U.S. Space Force.

    44分
  3. Space Money: The Demand Pull — Kevin O'Connell

    6月19日

    Space Money: The Demand Pull — Kevin O'Connell

    The SpaceX IPO didn't create the appetite for space investment — it revealed it. Laura Winter speaks with Kevin O'Connell, Founder and CEO, Space Economy Rising; former Director, Office of Space Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce.

    43分
  4. Space Money: At $1.77 Trillion It’s SpaceX IPO Day!

    6月12日

    Space Money: At $1.77 Trillion It’s SpaceX IPO Day!

    SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026, in the largest IPO in history, valuing the rocket, satellite broadband communications, and AI company at $1.77 trillion. Laura Winter speaks with Chris Quilty, Founder and CEO of Quilty Space, George Pullen, Chief Economist at MilkyWayEconomy, and Lou Whiteman, stock analyst at The Motley Fool.

    56分
  5. Space Power: What Is Taiwan Building? Why?

    6月5日

    Space Power: What Is Taiwan Building? Why?

    "Without rockets, nothing is going to happen." In the five years since Taiwan's Space Development Act, that island has started to build-out satellite constellations, a launch site, and has just received its first-ever invitation from NASA to contribute directly to the Artemis lunar program. Deterrence and remaining independent from the PRC is also a driver. Laura Winter speaks with Dr. Wu Jong-Shinn, Director General, Taiwan Space Agency (TASA).

    44分
  6. Space Competition: AIAA's Clay Mowry On What The Commercial Sector Wants

    5月22日

    Space Competition: AIAA's Clay Mowry On What The Commercial Sector Wants

    Citing China’s possible mission to send Taikonauts around the moon, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told AIAA's ASCEND conference attendees that the launch cadence to the moon must increase. Laura Winter speaks with Clay Mowry, CEO of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and immediate past president of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF).

    35分
  7. Space Tech: Can Space-Based Solar Power Close the Business Case?

    5月15日

    Space Tech: Can Space-Based Solar Power Close the Business Case?

    Space-based solar power promises clean, dependable energy beamed from orbit to Earth — but does the business case close? That debate starts here. Laura Winter speaks with George Pullen, Chief Space Economist, Milky Way Economy; Martin Soltau, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Space Solar; and Richard Winslade, Chief Financial Officer, Space Solar.

    49分
  8. Space Money: Terran Orbital and the Race to Scale

    5月8日

    Space Money: Terran Orbital and the Race to Scale

    Russian satellites recently maneuvered to within three meters of each other in low Earth orbit — a stark reminder that space is a warfighting domain and that the race to build resilient satellite constellations has never been more urgent. Lockheed Martin subsidiary Terran Orbital is building the satellite buses for the Space Development Agency's missile-tracking architecture — one tranche at a time. Laura Winter speaks with Peter Krauss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Terran Orbital.

    30分
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番組について

From the Defense & Aerospace Report... This is The DownLink Podcast, hosted by Laura Winter. From the intersection of space, business, and defense... Not just what's over the horizon, but what's happening above it. The DownLink Podcast is 2023, 2024, and 2025 Defense Media Award-winner.

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