The DownLink Podcast

Institutional investors are diversifying their portfolios to include alternative assets, such as private equity and private credit. With the SpaceX IPO, some are seeking stakes in the space category, but do they understand what they're buying? From the Up/Link SpaceTech Business Summit in New York, Laura Winter speaks with Chris Quilty, Founder and Co-CEO of Quilty Space, and Drew Svor, Partner at Sheppard.

A year after German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius spoke about offensive capabilities and pledged €35B to build up military space power, the interest, desire, and need for resilient space systems have grown alongside the increasing number of hybrid attacks attributed to Russia. Laura Winter speaks with Torsten Kriening, Publisher and CEO of SpaceWatch.Global. Watch this episode on The DownLink YouTube channel. Subscribe to The DownLink newsletter: https://thedownlink.substack.com/ Follow The DownLink on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-downlink-podcast/ "Not just what's over the horizon, but what's happening above it!"

Space venture funding hit a record $3.1 billion in September — but the industry's real problem could be a scarcity of rockets, even if SpaceX’s Starship comes on-line. Laura Winter speaks with Chris Quilty, Founder and CEO of Quilty Space, and Lou Whiteman, Stock Analyst at The Motley Fool. Watch this episode on The DownLink YouTube channel⁠⁠. Subscribe to The DownLink newsletter: https://thedownlink.substack.com/ Follow The DownLink on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-downlink-podcast/ “Not just what's over the horizon, but what's happening above it!”

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman knows that breathing efficiently is really the trick that unlocks human deep space travel. He recently paid a visit to Honeywell Aerospace in Arizona and learned more about the company's clever answer that has the potential for 100% air recyclability. Laura Winter speaks with Meghan Pipitone, Lead Engineer for Air Revitalization, Honeywell Aerospace.

Did space just get short-shrift at this week’s summit? Naming China as the No1 threat, U.S. military officials did just confirm the existence of on-orbit weapons and that it will prepare for combat on and around the moon. Or were there other less-sexy agenda items that directly affect the space industrial base? Laura Winter speaks with Dean Cheng, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.