• Europe’s push for reusable rockets.
    Nov 18 2024
    The Exploration Company (TEC) has closed a $160 million Series B funding round. Satellite company Maxar has confirmed a data breach involving the personal information of its employees. The US Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it's forming a new rulemaking committee, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Dr. Sharon Lemac-Vincere. You can connect with Sharon on LinkedIn, and read her paper on The Cyber-Safe Gateway : Unlocking Scotland's Space Cybersecurity Potential on this website. Selected Reading European SpaceX rival raises $160 million for reusable capsule to carry astronauts, cargo to space Space tech giant Maxar confirms hacker accessed employees' personal data- TechCrunch Deloitte Enables Global Expansion of Space ISAC Watch Center as Cyber Threats to Space Increase Launch and Reentry License Requirements Improvement Aerospace Rulemaking Committee- Federal Aviation Administration Impulse Space Awarded BALISTA Contract by National Reconnaissance Office to Advance Agile Space Technologies and Strategic Technology Advancement- Business Wire SpaceX launches mystery ‘Optus-X’ on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center – Spaceflight Now New Shepard's 28th Mission Includes Emily Calandrelli and Two Returning Customers- Blue Origin SUPARCO's rover to explore lunar surface Green energy, space, agriculture: China, Brazil deepen cooperation on sustainable development Rolls-Royce sets sights on providing nuclear power to space missions Boeing Elects Tim Buckley to Board of Directors James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity - The Debrief T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • AWS in Orbit: Providing Decision Intelligence from Space with SatSure.
    Nov 16 2024
    You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Our guests today are Rashmit Singh Sukhmani and Divya Sharma from SatSure. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Reading AWS Aerospace and Satellite Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • Reports, rockets, and revisions.
    Nov 15 2024
    AST SpaceMobile reports financial results for Q3 and announces a multi-launch campaign from Florida. MDA Space reports revenues of $282.4 million, up 38% year-over-year. Sidus Space closes its previously announced underwritten public offering of 5,600,000 shares of its Class A common stock. Impulse Space signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 rocket launches that will support the ongoing development and deployment of Impulse’s vehicles Helios and Mira, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Elysia Segal from NASASpaceflight.com brings us the Space Traffic Report. Selected Reading AST SpaceMobile Provides Business Update and Third Quarter 2024 Results MDA Space Reports Third Quarter 2024 Results Sidus Space Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Provides Business Update Impulse Space Secures Three SpaceX Falcon 9 Missions- Business Wire Dan Piemont on X: "ANNOUNCEMENT Today we’re announcing major changes to our mission at ABL. We are stepping away from the commercial launch market and focusing our efforts on missile defense. Commercial Launch Over the past six years, we developed an orbital rocket with unique traits. It can be" / X Sierra Space and DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Revolutionizing Thermal Protection for a New Generation of Commercial Space Transportation Vehicles- Business Wire NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Space Weather Program ispace-U.S. and Volta Space Technologies Agree to Collaborate on Future Development of Survive the Night Capability Planet Expands Contract with French Digital Farming Company Abelio- Business Wire NASA Johnson Invites Proposals to Lease Vibration Test Facility Forsway secures 2.3 MEUR funding from the European Space Agency Aging and Fragility Biomarkers are Altered by Spaceflight - NASA T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 mins
  • Mass layoff to hit Boeing.
    Nov 14 2024
    17,000 people globally are expected to be impacted by layoffs at aerospace giant Boeing. Starfish Space has closed a $29 million funding round. Lunar Outpost has also closed a Series A funding round but did not disclose the amount that it had raised, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Grammy award-winning Composer and Producer Brent Fischer. You can connect with Brent on LinkedIn, and learn more about his work on his website. Selected Reading Boeing starts issuing layoff notices as planemaker trims 10% of workforce- Reuters Starfish Space Secures $29 Million in New Funding to Advance Otter Development Lunar Outpost Secures Series A Funding to Accelerate Commercial Pursuits on the Moon Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 3 DRAFT RFP/RFI China launches new satellite for ocean salinity detection - CGTN ISRO and Protoplanet Partner for Innovative Research Expedition to Ladakh | Bengaluru News - Times of India Hemisphere Ventures Expands into Southeast Asia NASA Administrator to Visit, Sign Agreement with Peru’s Space Agency X-Bow Systems and Texas State University Announce Cooperative Research Agreement for Solid Rocket Motor Advancement SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 spacecraft to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch — and it's wearing a banana (photos)- Space MetTel Is Now an Authorized Starlink Reseller, Extending Managed Network Services via Space Globally Booker Prize 2024: British author Samantha Harvey wins with Orbital T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • More layoffs for NASA’s JPL.
    Nov 13 2024
    NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced that it will be making layoffs. Rocket Lab announced revenue grew 55% year-on-year to $105 million in their financial updates from the last quarter. Spire Global has announced an agreement to sell its maritime business to Kpler for approximately $241 million, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Ivan Novikov, CEO of Wallarm. You can connect with Ivan on LinkedIn, and learn more about Wallarm on their website. Selected Reading JPL Workforce Update - NASA Rocket Lab Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results, Posts 55% Year-on-Year Growth and Guides to Record Revenue in Q4- Business Wire Spire Global Announces Strategic Business Update; Debt to be Eliminated NASA Welcomes Denmark as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory GITAI Raises an Additional US$15.5 Million in Funding ispace Reports Q2 Financial Results for FY Ending March 2025 and Mission 2 Launch Scheduled No Earlier Than Jan. 2025 Rivada Expands Market Access to 18 Countries, Adds New Spectrum Sidus Space Selected to Exclusively Build Lonestar Data Holding Lunar Data Storage Spacecraft Fleet SDA Selects Vendor to Deliver Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure Sony Space Communications Corporation and Astro Digital Announce Agreement to Design, Manufacture and Launch Two Satellites Trump names Elon Musk to lead government efficiency drive- Reuters Viasat and Altán Join Forces to Launch First-of-Its-Kind LTE Home and Mobile Broadband Service over Satellite in Mexico NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft ESA - Happy New Year on Mars T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Firefly spreads its wings with new funding.
    Nov 12 2024
    Firefly Aerospace has closed an oversubscribed $175 million Series D round at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Indian Space startup GalaxEye has closed a Series A funding round, securing $10 million. CAS Space conducted the fifth flight of its Kinetica 1 rocket on Monday, transporting 15 satellites into space, including one built by China for Oman, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Heather Bulk, CEO and Co-founder of Special Aerospace Services (SAS). You can connect with Heather on LinkedIn, and learn more about SAS on their website. Selected Reading Firefly Aerospace Closes Oversubscribed $175 Million Series D Capital Raise with New Lead Investor GalaxEye closes Series A at $10 million, looks to commercialise its satellite offerings - The Hindu BusinessLine China launches Lijian-1 Y5 carrier rocket with 15 satellites onboard - CGTN 2 SpaceX launches take off from Florida on Monday Cargo Resupply Service-2 Contract 2030 Extension Millennium Spacecraft for NASA TRACERS Mission Moves to Testing Phase Sierra Space Successfully Completes Key Development Milestone for SDA Missile Warning and Tracking Satellites | Business Wire Ariane 6 first commercial flight scheduled for early 2025 Altair Signs Collaboration Agreement with the European Space Agency New satellite data showing - Urban Green Spaces continue to decline across the world Texas A&M approves new $200 million space institute in Houston Exail Selects ST Engineering iDirect's Manufacturing Competence Center as Strategic Partner for Belgian-Dutch Navy Program Hurricane Helene’s Gravity Waves Revealed by NASA’s AWE T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 mins
  • Space and Veterans.
    Nov 11 2024
    In lieu of our normal programming, we wanted to take today to honor our veterans- from our own team at N2K, to those that have made massive contributions to the aerospace industry in the US. Throughout this program you will hear stories from military veterans and spouses about how their time in service to their country shaped their careers in the aerospace industry. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Charles F. Bolden, former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former astronaut Ché Bolden, Marine Corps veteran, CEO of The Charles F. Bolden Group Eileen Collins, retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel. Sarah “Sassie” Duggleby, CEO Venus Aerospace Alice Carruth, T-Minus Producer Brandon Karpf, T-Minus Executive Producer Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • Memoirs from a NASA Business Manager.
    Nov 9 2024
    Growing up in Houston, Herb Baker has spent most of his life involved with NASA. He is sharing his experience in his new memoir “From Apollo to Artemis: Stories from my 50 years with NASA” available from all good bookstores. You can connect with Herb on LinkedIn, and learn more about his book at herbbaker.space Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 mins