Clayming Space

This month we talk to Laura Keogh. Laura is the National Point of Contact for Ireland at the Space Generation Advisory Council. We’ll be talking to Laura about Ireland’s involvement in space, what are the current legislative frameworks and how they are used and associated with tech, data protection, and space. 

In this episode, we'll be talking to Jon Lim. Jon Lim is a Lawyer and Geopolitical Analyst by day and being involved in the geopolitics arena, he's a great guest for today's episode on the space ecosystem in South Korea. He works for the Australia-Korea Business Council, is a Young Leader Fellow of the Pacific Forum, a Space Law and Policy Group Member for the Space Generation Advisory Council and a lot more. We'll be talking to Jon about his involvement with the Space Law and Policy Group at the Space Generation Advisory Council or SGAC, the South Korean Space Ecosystem and the current geopolitics in the Korean Peninsula.

In this episode, we'll be talking to Iain Finer. Iain is a propulsion engineer at Dawn Aerospace - a space startup based in New Zealand working on point to point travel across the planet. On the side, he is the founder of the blog Mach5 Lowdown which gives us all the info we need to know about the exciting ecosytem of Amateur Rocketry. We'll be talking to Iain about the world of Amateur Rocketry and the aspects of it that are hot right now and who is up to what.

In this episode, we'll be talking to Jean Deville. Jean is the founder of China Aerospace Blog which chronicles the Chinese space ecosystem. It's a very informative blog if you need to know all things space in China, objectively. By day he works for Business France. We'll be talking about China Aerospace Blog and what are his thoughts about the ecosystem in China, sizing the market, how the government is involved and more.

In this episode, we'll be talking to Temidayo Isaiah Oniosun. He is the Cofounder of RadikalHUB - a coworking space in Lagos for startups, SMEs, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and consultants. He is also the current CTO of Ideal Space Technologies which capitalizes on space technologies and open data to solve societal issues in the African continent; and also the Managing Editor of Space in Africa - a media agency that covers the business, technology, events, and politics around the African space and satellite industry.

In this episode, we'll be talking to Dr. Sarah-Jeanne Royer. Sarah is an oceanographer and currently doing a post-doctorate on marine debris at the International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawaii. Her research focuses on the effects of plastics in the ocean on marine life. More specifically the links to the pathways and fate of marine debris and plastic pollution in the ocean. 

In this episode, we'll be talking to Narayan Prasad. Narayan is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Satsearch - a space company based out of Delft in the Netherlands. e is also a Cofounder of NewSpace India - a space policy group and also cofounded Dhruva Space. This episode will be the first in our Space Ecosystems series. We will start off by talking about Satsearch and how it is trying to digitize the space supply chain via a networked ecosystem. We will then talk about the Indian Space Ecosystem - the players, all the space sectors and the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO's role in the current climate.

In this episode, we'll be talking to Dr. Baptiste Journaux. Baptiste is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Earth and Space Science Department of the University of Washington and he is also affiliated to the NASA Astrobiology Institute. His work is focused on studying the physics of deep oceans and ice mantle of icy moons and possible water-rich exoplanets. In other words, he is studying high-pressure sea-water and looks if life could exist in extraterrestrial oceans with pressure many times greater than the one found on Earth at the bottom of the Mariana trench, 11km below sea level. So this is going to be a science episode, specifically on planetary geophysics.

In this inaugural episode, we'll be talking to Cynthia Lam. Cynthia is a Ph.D. student at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, researching Kiwi-Chinese identity in New Zealand Theatre. Now you must be thinking about what happened to this show being about the 'space' industry?

Identity is something very important and fundamental we need to mold as Homo sapiens especially if we are building space habitats and communities to inhabit other planets, near-Earth Objects, gather space resources and eventually travel beyond our own system. 

Holistically questioning our pursuit into new frontiers

The world is going crazy! “Strong men leaders” that we thought died with the dark ages, cyber-hacks everywhere, social media and internet giants going bonkers with data privacy and contributing to demise of the democratic process, the wealthy getting wealthier with wider societal inequity (and some changing their tune as a form of self-preservation), admissions scams at “top universities” by the wealthy, countries trying to assert their dominance in their neighboring regions, to slavery and colonialism existing in the modern-day!!! Where do we look for hope?

Clayming Space is a show that holistically questions our pursuit of new frontiers. We avoid the shock and awe campaigns of those given the privilege of a voice to be heard and go to the source, the silent ones that do the grunt of the work. We talk to experts in industries that affect not only our daily lives on Earth but also beyond, as we forge a new paradigm for all humans. Join us, as we talk to people who are making silent strides in their respective fields and molding a world that focuses on a multi-cultural identity, democracy, socio-capitalism, open borders, technology, space, society, and more.

Clayming Space is a show available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts; Stitcher and Spotify.