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Note: We previously uploaded the wrong episode. That mistake has been fixed.Welcome to the last episode of our annual Summer Season special. Today we have another Future-in-Space Operations presentation this time by Bradley Jolliff of Washington University in St. Louis on the "Motivation and Challenges for Sampling the Moon’s Giant South Pole - Aitken Basin."

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Welcome to the third episode of our annual Summer Season special. Today we have another Future-in-Space Operations presentation from Joe Lazio and Marc Sanchez Net from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who discuss "On-Demand Access for Deep Space Operations."

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In 1987 Frank White coined the term “Overview Effect” which he used to describe the "cognitive shift that results from the experience of viewing the Earth from space and in space, from orbit or on a lunar mission."In this the second episode in our annual Summer Season special we have another Future-in-Space Operations presentation from a couple of weeks ago. The guest speaker is Jordan Bimm from the University of Chicago, who provides some fascinating insights into the Overview Effect, specifically that we need to rethink what the Overview Effect is.

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Welcome to the first episode of our annual Summer Season specials. We've just completed Season 4 and Season 5 is currently scheduled to start on September 27. Between now and then we'll be featuring weekly interviews or presentations from other content creators.Today we have a Future-in-Space Operations presentation from April of this year. The presenter is Mike Lindsey, CTO of Astroscale who discusses the need for satellite life extension services, active debris removal, their technology and offerings. We offer this presentation now as Astroscale's ELSA-D mission successfully demonstrated repeated magnetic capture of a clients satellite last week.In his presentation Mike states Space Development Demands Sustainability. This has never been more true. Space debris is, and has been a problem since the early days of the space age. While most space actors are taking sustainability into account, the issue of legacy debris is a problem still without a cost-effective solution. Companies like Astroscale are tying to make the business case by offering innovative solutions. They aren't offering to clean up legacy debris, but what they are attempting is a good first step. As new ideas, technologies, and importantly, business solutions come into existence, we can only hope that all space debris, legacy and new, can be removed safely.

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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy podcast my guest is Jeremy Perrin, CEO of Connektica a Montreal based startup offering a radio frequency software platform to test antennas.Sometimes being highly specialized can limit a business. However, there are times where that knowledge and skillsets can enhance a market segment. Connektica appears to be the latter. Though a startup, it appears their combination of radio frequency expertise, software development, and determined entrepreneurs, is arriving at the perfect time to tackle some of the issues of mass manufacturing of satellites. Listen in.

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Welcome to the Space Economy podcast and the final and 10th episode in our special series Doing Business in the Solar System hosted by Elizabeth Howell.While this may be the last podcast in the Doing Business in the Solar System, I'm happy to announce that Elizabeth will be back in the fall hosting a new podcast for SpaceQ, making it the third podcast we produce. More details on Elizabeth's podcast will be revealed in September.Today's podcast: It's notoriously hard to predict the space exploration economy. Twenty years ago, space tourism was a pipe dream and no company had yet sent a cargo ship to the International Space Station. These days, tourist flights and cargo ships are becoming more common. Are there any lessons we can draw to think ahead to say, 2050?Joining us is Michael Dodge. He earned multiple law degrees, and is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Dakota's Department of Space Studies.

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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy podcast we're going to get an update on the status of Firefly's launch vehicles and spacecraft including their NASA commercially sponsored Blue Ghost mission.The presenter is Eric Salwan, the acting Chief Revenue Officer for Firefly. The presentation is available on our website.

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We've found thousands of exoplanets in the last 30 years, particularly with tools like NASA's Kepler mission and the HARPS instrument at the La Silla telescope in Chile. But for the last few years, we've had the capability to seek out worlds that are potentially habitable, like the famous TRAPPIST-1 system with several planets the size of Earth.So far these worlds are just lights in a telescope, but before long observatories and potential missions will show us more. To tell us more about the future of exoplanet science, we'll hear from Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute.

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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy podcast we're going to get an update on Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration. The topic was the subject of the June 16th Future in Space Operations teleconference. The presenter was Roger Myers, a consultant and formerly with Aerojet Rocketdyne. His presentation is based on the National Academy Report, Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration created for NASA. Meyers was the Co-Chair of the report.

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NASA hopes to expand its human spaceflight program to the Moon in the 2020s, and perhaps then to Mars. An international consortium is working to make this push into the solar system as efficient as possible. One key aspect is in situ resource utilization, or ISRU. Living off the land, proponents say, may make it cheaper to perform exploration because it means not having to tote all supplies with you.The Colorado School of Mines has done numerous studies concerning ISRU. Today's guest is Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director of the Center for Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines. He is also director of the space resources graduate program at the school.

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