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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy my guest is Marcia Smith the founder of Space Policy Online. Marcia's career includes being the Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Space, a Senior Level Specialist in Aerospace and Telecommunications Policy at the Congressional Research Service, and a Director of the Space Studies Board at the National Research Council. While Marcia likes to be referred to as a space policy analyst and will downplay her career, she is an expert in space policy and I'm thrilled to have her on the show as this week we discuss the election and its effect on the space program.Space Policy Onlinehttps://spacepolicyonline.com

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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy I'm taking to Tahir Merali, COO of the startup 4pi Lab who are planning to build a constellation of small satellites in Low Earth Orbit to detect small wildfires. It's a fascinating idea. Once operational, the service is designed to give communities and governments who want access to the data, as early a heads-up as possible so the decision maker can decide what to do about the wildfires. But before they begin building satellites, the company is working on developing its optical sensor.4pi Labhttp://site.4pilab.com/

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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy I interview Robert Jacobson, an investor in the space economy and the author of the recently published book, Space is Open for Business. After listening to the podcast, you can check out Robert's book and added features he has on https://www.spaceisopenforbusiness.com/Also, we have a new Twitter account for the podcast. Check it out at: https://twitter.com/TheEconomySpace

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On this weeks episode of the Space Economy we speak with Chad Anderson, a Managing Partner at Space Capital an early stage venture capital firm who invest in the space economy. Space Capital recently published their Q3 2020 Space Quarterly Report and today Chad and I will discuss some key points from the report touching on changes to the methodology, COVID-19, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies or SPAC's and China.- Our sponsor this week is MDA.https://mda.space- You can download the Space Investment Quarterly report from the Space Capital website.https://www.spacecapital.com/- Read daily news on these websites:https://spaceq.ca/http://spaceref.com/http://nasawatch.com/http://astrobiology.com/

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Welcome to season 4 of the podcast. And what a season have we got planned for you. To start, each episode will centre around the space economy. So naturally we’re changing the name of the podcast to The Space Economy.The other big change we’re making, at least from what you the listener will notice right away, is that the podcasts are getting shorter. Each podcast will be no longer than 35 minutes. And since we’re going to have shorter podcasts, starting November we’re going to have more of them. We’re going back to our weekly format but instead of publishing on Thursday’s, you’ll be able to tune every Monday morning.We’ll have more announcements coming up, but let’s get today’s guest. Our first guest for season 4 is NASA’s Chief Economist, Alex MacDonald.Listen in.

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This is the fourth and last episode of the SpaceQ Summer Series. In two weeks we begin our 4th season and we’re excited to bring you some great content including our interviews with today’s and future leaders from the space community.Today we have a teleconference from this past Monday where NASA discussed its early Artemis exploration plans after releasing its Lunar Exploration Program Overview earlier in the day.On the call are NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine along with; - Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate- James Reuter, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission DirectorateAfter short introductory statements the teleconference was opened up to questions from journalists. It is those questions and the answer which are well worth listening to, to gain insights into NASA’s lunar exploration plans.Listen in.

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher, welcome to the SpaceQ podcast.This is the third episode of the SpaceQ Summer Series which today features NASA’s Raymond Clinton Jr., Associate Director of the Science & Technology Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center.The topic is In-Space Manufacturing and Lunar Construction Technology Development at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.Dr. Clinton takes takes us on a brief journey of what's been done by NASA to date and then discusses what NASA is doing now and what the future of in-space and lunar manufacturing might be.Listen in.

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Hi, I’m Marc Boucher and welcome to the second episode of the SpaceQ Summer Series which today features cosmologist and science communicator Katie Mack.In June she published the book The End of Everything (Astrophyically Speaking). Today we’ll hear from @AstroKatie on the topic of the end of the universe from a May 6th webcast from the Perimeter Institute. While the topic might be tough to follow for those who aren’t astrophysists, Mack is a consummate science communicator and brings the topic alive so everyone can understand it.Mack is currently a Simons Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute and an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.Listen in.The End of Everything (Astrophyically Speaking):https://amzn.to/3lox43B

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Last night Erin O’Toole was elected leader of the Federal Conservative Party. We’ve got an article online available to subscribers that outlines what you might expect from O’Toole and the Conservatives should they win the next election. And that election could come as early as this fall if the Liberal’s don’t win the confidence of Parliament after the Throne speech on September 23rd.As a bonus for SpaceQ podcast listeners, we have the following interview I did with O’Toole last October 3rd leading up to the 2019 Federal election.Ok, Listen in to my interview with new Conservative party leader Erin O’Toole.

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Satellite servicing is going from the realm of, I wish we could do this, to becoming a reality. That reality includes creating satellite servicing standards.There are several legacy companies looking to garner a share of the satellite servicing market along with a slew of startups. There are many issues facing all those interested in satellite servicing. To work towards technical and safety standards DARPA funded a new organization with that goal.Today, Brian Weeden, the Executive Director of the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations, known as (CONFERS), provides an in-depth look at what their organization is doing and the challenges ahead. His talk was part of the Future-in-space Operations weekly teleconference series recorded on July 29. I should note that Brian is also the Director of Program Planning for the Secure World Foundation.Listen in.

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