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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne spacecraft is like a Russian matryoshka doll. A plane takes off carrying a rocket, which is carrying a satellite payload. Once in air, the rocket then takes off from the plane and flies toward space. When it reaches orbit, the rocket dispenses its satellites to their intended destinations… Watching this all happen...

Khristian Jones is a senior aerospace engineering student at Wichita State University, and one of the co-founders of the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship. The Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, an official spin-off of the Brooke Owens Fellowship, provides Black undergraduate students with paid summer internships at aerospace companies and nonprofits. The fellowship was launched in 2020,...

In this episode, Maxime Puteaux, principal advisor at Euroconsult, gives us the rundown of satellite trends in 2020, as well as what he sees happening in the decade ahead. Puteaux reviews a forecast of satellite manufacturing and launch services, pegged to a recent Euroconsult report on the subject. Looking back at 2020, Puteaux notes it...

Space startup Orbit Fab is working to establish gas stations in space. The company recently announced plans to launch its first operational fuel depot into orbit, and secured additional seed funding from Munich Re Ventures.  For CEO Dan Faber, this isn’t his first rodeo, as he’s built startups before. But with Orbit Fab, he’s hoping...

Therese Jones is the senior director of policy at the Satellite Industry Association (SIA). She works on issues such as universal access to broadband, as well as more recently, space policy as it pertains to the Biden administration transition. She’s also one of the co-founders of the Zed Factor Fellowship, a fellowship announced in November...

Tina Ghataore is currently the president of Mynaric USA, the U.S. branch of Mynaric, which specializes in laser communications. Ghataore has had a long career in the satellite industry and prior to this role, she has worked for YahSat, Panasonic Aviation, Boeing, and more, flexing both her engineering and business development skills. Ghataore’s love for...

Carolyn Belle has held a variety of jobs in the space industry, but her vision remains the same: a future that focuses on building space-based infrastructure to enable a dynamic in-space economy. She recently started her current gig, where she’s the director of advanced systems at Astroscale US, and works on supporting the move towards...

What would a second Trump administration or new Biden administration mean for space policy? In this episode, we talk to Via Satellite Managing Editor Rachel Jewett and SATELLITE Chairman and Via Satellite Executive Editor Jeff Hill and about each candidate’s plans for space. What has been said, and what are the pros and cons of...

We bring back previous co-host and guest Grace Graham, who was first on the podcast last July, and helped host the SATELLITE live episode, “What Does New Space Really Mean?” Grace is a student at Utah State University. She catches us up on her summer internship with ULA, her firsthand experience with rocket launches, and...

So you’re interested in the space industry, but how do you land an internship? As someone who’s interned at NASA, GE Aviation, and OneWeb, Josh Ingersoll has some tips and tricks to share.  Ingersoll is currently a graduate space policy student at George Washington University, and also serves as recruitment chair for the Matthew Isakowitz...