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The DownLink Podcast

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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 and 2024 Defense Media Award-winner.

Episodes (214)

Space Tech: What Tech Is Required To Make Trump’s “Iron Dome” Work In 685 Days?

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Feb 14, 202542:54pending

Space Money: Trump’s Tariffs Squeeze Supply of Minerals Critical To Space System...

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Feb 7, 202544:04pending

Space Power: Trump’s New “Star Wars” Executive Order

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Jan 31, 202549:01pending

Space Tech: What The First Space Force Chief Scientist Says Must Change Pt1

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Jan 24, 202529:08pending

Space Power: Trump 2.0, the 119th Congress, And The First 100 Days

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Jan 17, 202539:20pending

Space Money: Great Expectations For Trump Administration 2.0

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Jan 10, 202539:27pending

Space Competition: China Launches Broadband Competitor Network To SpaceX’s Starl...

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Dec 20, 202436:38pending

Space Power: Chief Master Sergeant John Bentivegna - Becoming Space Warfighter-M...

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Dec 14, 202437:30pending

Space Money: The Game Of Space-Based Risk In a Time Of Market Fragility

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Dec 7, 202435:26pending

Space Competition: Trump’s South Korean Space Opportunity

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Dec 1, 202433:33pending

Space Competition: How Space Allies and Adversaries Read “America First” and a M...

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Nov 24, 202439:26pending

Space Power: Trump 2.0 May Attempt Human Mars Landing, Establish Department of t...

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Nov 16, 202449:19pending

Space Power: President-Elect Trump Expected To Supercharge U.S. Space Ambitions

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Nov 9, 202450:41pending

Space Money: Report - DoD At Risk of Losing New Commercial Space Suppliers And C...

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Nov 1, 202436:49pending

Space Competition: Threats and Trends A Year After October 7th

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Oct 27, 202442:04pending

Space Power: A National Guardsman’s View On Why A Pentagon Plan Is A “Lose-Lose...

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Oct 20, 202434:29pending

Space Tech: Talking To The Far Side of the Moon

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Oct 13, 202442:06pending

Space Money: Q3 Take - “Money Doesn’t Care”

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Oct 6, 202446:40pending

Space Competition: How To Better De-Risk Adversarial Threats To Space Systems’ V...

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Sep 28, 202435:21pending

Space Power: Space Force CSO - “What We Were Is Not What We Must Become”

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Sep 20, 202430:56pending

Space Tech: Is It A Bird? A Plane? Actually... It’s A Drone

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Sep 15, 202435:47pending

Space Money: Starliner, A 737 Max Felony, and a New Boeing CEO

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Sep 7, 202440:43pending

Space Competition: Geo-Strategic Questions Over NASA’s Plan to Destroy the ISS

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Sep 1, 202445:51pending

Space Power: War-Gamers Say We’re “Behind the Eight Ball”

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Aug 23, 202438:31pending

Space Tech: Defense Looking At Modular Upgrades For Greater SDA

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Aug 10, 202436:01pending

Space Money: Silicon Valley - “The DoD Has Not Brought The Dough”

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Aug 3, 202428:14pending

Space Power: SmallSats - Time To Plan, Procure, And Execute

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Jul 26, 202440:34pending

Space Technology: Holes Bubble Up In NASA’s Narrative On Plan To De-Orbit The Sp...

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Jul 21, 202455:24pending

Space Power: NATO Summit - Defense Industry! Can You Hear The Demand Signal Now?

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Jul 13, 202444:30pending

Space Power: NATO Summit - Security Alliance Is Employing More Than Words In Spa...

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Jul 7, 202441:17pending

Space Money: Welcome To The Second Half Of 2024!

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Jun 29, 202450:34pending

Space Competition: “We Need To Go From Ambition To Implementation”

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Jun 23, 202439:01pending

Space Power: What’s the Story With The Space Force?

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Jun 14, 202431:18pending

Space Money: The Long-Term Strategy Inside The Space Force Budget Numbers

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Jun 9, 202437:24pending

Space Money: Risk of Second Boots vs First Base

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Jun 2, 202441:51pending

Space Competition: The PLA May Not Be Ready To Fight In Space

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May 25, 202433:50pending

Space Power: What The U.S. Needs To Build “An Enduring Advantage In The Third Sp...

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May 18, 202425:56pending

Space Power: Why States, National Guard Association Say “No!” To Defense Departm...

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May 10, 202444:04pending

Space Money: "For Those Who Can Execute, The Opportunity Is Massive"

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May 5, 202431:27pending

Space Competition: AUKUS Nations - UK and Australia Aim to Plus Up Defense

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Apr 27, 202436:44pending

Space Power: “The Biggest Enemy to National Security Are Continuing Resolutions”

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Apr 20, 202446:07pending

Space Power: SECAF Says “Our Cushion Is Gone. We are out of time.”

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Apr 13, 202456:59pending

Space Money: “Get Used To "Crazyville”, “Moon Mania”, And A New Defense Strategy

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Apr 7, 202450:45pending

Space Competition: Why SpaceX’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” Is Redrawing The...

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Mar 23, 202443:31pending

Space Power: 2025 Space Force Budget Slashes Launches, Reduces Buying Power By 5...

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Mar 16, 202447:15pending

Space Power: Fines On Space Junk In The Pipeline And What’s Legal Salvage

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Mar 9, 20241:06:49pending

Space Money: The Fortune 500 View From TE Connectivity’s Martin Cullen

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Mar 2, 202439:44pending

Space Competition: Can The US Deter Its Adversaries From Launching Cyberattacks...

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Feb 25, 20241:01:49pending

Space Power: Securing Space Systems From Cyber Attack - “We Play Whack-A-Mole”

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Feb 18, 202454:08pending

Space Tech: The Threat Landscape, A Cyber Vulnerability, And Ransoming A Satelli...

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Feb 10, 202452:07pending