Canada In Space

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In this episode of the Space Economy podcast we are featuring a recent Future in Space Operations presentation by Paul Jaffe of the Naval Research Laboratory.

Dr. Paul Jaffe is an electronics engineer and researcher with over 25 years of experience at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). He has led or held major roles on dozens of space missions and on breakthrough technology development projects for civilian, defense, and intelligence community sponsors. In this episode Dr. Jaffe will speak on “Power Beaming and Space Applications." This complements an earlier podcast this season by Jeff Mankins on Space Based Solar Power.

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This weeks podcast special guest is John Mankins, formerly with NASA and now running a consultancy, ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions, LLC. John also works with an Australian startup, more on that later, and works with various other space organizations.

John also happens to be one of the foremost experts and advocates for Space Based Solar Power, our topic today.

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Today’s podcast is a Future in Space Operations presentation from Dec. 15 with Robert Smith of the University of Alberta who discusses The Making of Megascience: The History of the James Webb Space Telescope.

So what does the James Webb Space Telescope have to do with the Space Economy. Well to start, over 10,000 people worked on the project with over $10 billion being spent by the NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency over 20 years.

And if you are regular to this podcast you will know we previously interviewed NASA’s Chief Economist Alex MacDonald about his book the Long Space Age, the Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War. The book in part discusses the grand terrestrial observatories, how they were funded and the impact on society. So while the Webb space telescope will advance our knowledge of the universe, it will also have an economic impact.

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In the second episode of season 5 of the Space Economy podcast my returning is Jeffrey Manber, President International and Space Stations at Voyager Space and Chairman of Nanoracks.

It's been a year since Jeff was last on the show and what a year it's been for him and the company. Voyager Space, an up and coming player in the space industry, acquired a majority stake in XO Markets and its largest subsidiary Nanoracks earlier this year. And just last week a team lead by Nanoracks was selected in the first phase of NASA's Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program for commercial space station concepts. Two other proposals were selected including Northrop Grumman and the Orbital Reef team led by Blue Origin and Sierra Space. They are joined by Axiom Space which received a grant earlier in 2020.

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My guest today is Mina Mitry, CEO of Kepler Communications. The Toronto based telecommunications company has a pretty big goal, that of being THE internet access provider in space, from low Earth orbit, to the Moon and beyond. To make that happen the company has two satellites constellations planned, the first for the IoT market. They currently and have 15 satellites in orbit of a planned 140. The other satellite constellation would be for the broadband market and would have 360 satellites. But that's not all.

They have a new product called Aether which Mina will discuss in detail during our interview. But subsequent to our interview which was recorded on Nov. 15, a news item came out outlining plans by Kepler for a S-band low Earth orbit constellation of 114,852 satellites. The media reports had it slightly wrong. While Kepler, working with Germany's Federal Network Agency, had submitted an application to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), it wasn't for a constellation, it was for the small Aether communication hardware that could eventually be placed on the potential 114,852 customer satellites. Still, these numbers are mind-boggling when you think that just over 10 years ago we only had a total of 1,000 active satellites in orbit. 

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