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On Orbit

Hosted by Via Satellite's Senior Managing Editor Rachel Jewett, each On Orbit technology focused podcast features a discussion about the socioeconomic value of space and satellite capabilities.

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Satellite Cybersecurity Horror Stories with Ken Munro

Satellite Cybersecurity Horror Stories with Ken Munro

If you think your maritime satellite terminal is safe from hackers, give Ken Munro a call to make sure. He’s probably al... Read more

26 Nov 2019

37mins

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Launching Thousands of Smallsats w/ Jenny Barna (Live at SATELLITE 2019)

Launching Thousands of Smallsats w/ Jenny Barna (Live at SATELLITE 2019)

Jeff asks Spire's launch manager Jenny Barna why the satellite industry can't just sent satellites into orbit whenever t... Read more

14 May 2019

27mins

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The All-in-One Aerospace Engineer, Economist, and Entrepreneur w/ Grace Graham, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow From Utah State University

The All-in-One Aerospace Engineer, Economist, and Entrepreneur w/ Grace Graham, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow From Utah State University

Mechanical Aerospace Engineer Grace Graham does it all! In addition to being a 2019 Brook Owens Fellow and full-time stu... Read more

23 Jul 2019

46mins

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Space Politics of a Space Force w/ Vivienne Machi of Defense Daily

Space Politics of a Space Force w/ Vivienne Machi of Defense Daily

Most people are aware of the Trump administration’s plans for a “Space Force,” but few are clear on how it will fit with... Read more

11 Jun 2019

36mins

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The Top 12 Space and Satellite News Stories of 2019

The Top 12 Space and Satellite News Stories of 2019

As a holiday gift, we’re bringing our last On Orbit episode of the year a day early! Via Satellite Editor-in-Chief Mark ... Read more

23 Dec 2019

1hr 10mins

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The Regulatory Landscape with Jennifer Manner

The Regulatory Landscape with Jennifer Manner

Satellite is an important part of bringing connectivity to users wherever they are. The regulatory choices that are made... Read more

3 Mar 2020

53mins

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Connecting Rural and Hard-to-Reach Places

Connecting Rural and Hard-to-Reach Places

According to the ITU’s The State of Broadband 2019 report released in late September, the world achieved greater than 5... Read more

7 Jan 2020

50mins

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WTF is WRC (and Why Should I Care?)

WTF is WRC (and Why Should I Care?)

Bandwidth is by no means an unlimited resource. Your family’s smartphones, your in-home WiFi, and the dozens of Bluetoot... Read more

14 Jan 2020

49mins

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Building Smallsats Like Cars: NanoAvionics Comes to the USA

Building Smallsats Like Cars: NanoAvionics Comes to the USA

NanoAvionics CEO Vytenis Buzas defines his small satellite-building business as an homage to the smart industrial practi... Read more

12 Nov 2019

25mins

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Commercial Satellite in the 1980s: An Industry History Lesson w/ Scott Chase

Commercial Satellite in the 1980s: An Industry History Lesson w/ Scott Chase

With the unveiling of the SATELLITE 2020 Conference Program this week, we have a very well-timed episode of On Orbit fea... Read more

29 Oct 2019

1hr 6mins

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Seeing is Believing: Space-Based SAR to Save our Environment w/ Capella Space CEO Payam Banazadeh

Seeing is Believing: Space-Based SAR to Save our Environment w/ Capella Space CEO Payam Banazadeh

It’s frustrating for environmental scientists to watch politicians mangle and regurgitate climate change data into stump... Read more

17 Sep 2019

35mins

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5G's Conceptual Link to Satellite w/ Karl Horne of SES Networks & Ashish Sharma of Inseego

5G's Conceptual Link to Satellite w/ Karl Horne of SES Networks & Ashish Sharma of Inseego

The telecommunications sector is at an inflection point between the peak of the 4G LTE market and the on-ramp for next-g... Read more

24 Jun 2019

32mins

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Software-Defined Space(s): The Evolving Cloud w/ Greg Quiggle of Kratos & Alain Guigui of Hewlett Packard

Software-Defined Space(s): The Evolving Cloud w/ Greg Quiggle of Kratos & Alain Guigui of Hewlett Packard

What does it mean when people say that the satellite industry is becoming more “software-defined?” Does it mean that phy... Read more

9 Jul 2019

44mins

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Microsoft Azure, Dell Energy CTOs on the Digital Innovation Frontier

Microsoft Azure, Dell Energy CTOs on the Digital Innovation Frontier

Microsoft Azure wants to craft its own space business vertical. But instead of building their own satellites, they’ve op... Read more

10 Dec 2019

48mins

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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Satellite-Powered Precision Farming

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Satellite-Powered Precision Farming

How important are precision agriculture and global food and water supply monitoring applications to our future? Via Sate... Read more

15 Oct 2019

42mins

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Cosmic Girl: Launching Satellites from Jumbo Jets w/ Sirisha Bandla of Virgin Orbit

Cosmic Girl: Launching Satellites from Jumbo Jets w/ Sirisha Bandla of Virgin Orbit

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is a rather unique launch vehicle. It’s a rocket that deploys, or drops, from a customized Bo... Read more

1 Oct 2019

27mins

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Harvest Hub: Food Security from Space

Harvest Hub: Food Security from Space

Dr. Hannah Kerner develops machine learning solutions for NASA Harvest, a program led by the University of Maryland, in ... Read more

10 Feb 2020

36mins

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Carpooling Satellites: Historic and Unique Rideshare Launch Missions w/ Spaceflight and TriSept

Carpooling Satellites: Historic and Unique Rideshare Launch Missions w/ Spaceflight and TriSept

On this episode of On Orbit, we’re joined by Melissa Wuerl, Vice President Business Development for Spaceflight Industri... Read more

20 Aug 2019

1hr

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Community Wi-Fi: Education, Healthcare, and Economic Equality w/ Dave Rehbehn and Peter Gulla

Community Wi-Fi: Education, Healthcare, and Economic Equality w/ Dave Rehbehn and Peter Gulla

Connecting the world’s disconnected is a mission we take to heart at On Orbit. After all, our debut episode focused on ... Read more

3 Sep 2019

1hr

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It’s Cleanup Time! Dangerous Space Debris w/ Astroscale COO Chris Blackerby

It’s Cleanup Time! Dangerous Space Debris w/ Astroscale COO Chris Blackerby

As global space activity expands and accelerates, our space environment, naturally, becomes more congested. There have b... Read more

6 Aug 2019

40mins

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