Space and Satellite Professionals International

Why do people pollute the Earth? Because it’s easy and it’s cheap. Why are they also polluting space, with the same disastrous risks? Take a guess and tune in to our latest YouTube Short! https://vist.ly/3mqppqe

Start your week with a new Better Satellite World Podcast! In "The Space Business is... In Canada: Welcome to Spaceport Nova Scotia," we hear from Steve Matier, President and CEO of Maritime Launch Services in Nova Scotia, Canada. Tune in: https://vist.ly/3mqkwuf Our "The Space Business is..." podcast series is part of our larger "The Space Business is Everywhere" campaign, underwritten by ST Engineering iDirect. In this series, we take a look at the way the commercial space industry has spread itself to parts of the world where space and satellites were once only read about or dreamed of. Each episode will on a specific location and features an innovator who is shaping – and reshaping – the industry. Steve tells us in this first episode of the series: “To date, we’ve got commercial rockets, commercial satellites, commercial tugs. Now we’re looking at commercial space stations and lunar landers, but we’re still using government ranges for launch. And it seemed like an obvious growth for the industry to really look at a commercial launch site. So, when we started trying to find the optimal location, that’s where this place really came to bear fruit as the way to get satellites into orbit. This location in Nova Scotia is really key for meeting that demand.”

Have you listened to the latest Making Leaders Podcast featuring one of three Promise Award Recipients, Paige Webster? Paige is currently the Director of Commercial Solutions at ATLAS Space Operations. Tune in as we talk "Charting New Territory at ATLAS and Beyond!" https://vist.ly/3mqdrqv

Have you watched the latest Better Satellite World video yet?!

What is the role of data in the space sector? https://vist.ly/3mq898k

Happening today: the final New York Space Business Roundtable of 2024! Will 2025 be a year for financial Mojo or No-Go in commercial #space? Join us at 12 p.m. ET to find out! Register now: https://vist.ly/3mq7sq6

We're excited to share our latest Better Satellite World video, 𝑫𝒂𝒕𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉. For 30 million years, the North and South Poles have been kingdoms of ice and snow. But today, there is nowhere on Earth more at risk from climate change. The Antarctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Arctic temperatures are rising even faster. Scientists are in a race against time to understand what is happening at the poles and help the world change the story. Starting in 2019, the crew of the icebreaker Polarstern trapped their ship in Arctic ice for a whole year. One hundred researchers from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute labored through the cold and darkness, tracking changes in the ice, ocean and atmosphere. At the other end of the Earth, researchers for the Australian Antarctic Program began a voyage aboard the icebreaker Nuyina, a floating laboratory. Their work is critical in a place where massive shelves of ice grow weaker by the year, raising the risk they will plunge into the ocean and boost sea level. Polar research faces one more big challenge. The Polarstern’s year in the ice produced more than 90,000 data points. A single voyage of the Nuyina creates 160 trillion bytes of data. In the race against time, no one can afford to wait months for ships to return to port with information. They need it now. Today, a new generation of satellites, including Starlink and OneWeb, is covering the entire globe. But they are especially vulnerable to interference from bad weather, which is common at the ends of the Earth. A company called Speedcast has the answer. Watch the video online: https://lnkd.in/grMyTgZK #Satellite #BetterSatelliteWorld #SpeedCast #ClimateChange

Join us one week from today for the final New York Space Business Roundtable of 2024! Will 2025 be a year for financial Mojo or No-Go in commercial #space? Join us on Dec. 18 at 12 pm EST to find out! Picking up on themes from last month’s live Roundtable in New York we close the year with a more comprehensive look at the industry’s need to get its financial mojo back and to make its case to the larger media and the world that it is more than Musk, and as integral to human life and society as anything can be. We will look at the ethics behind the great change coming for Space and ask – in our typical way – whether DoorDash is more important than the Dart mission! Register now: https://vist.ly/3mpmgat

This week, we're excited to bring you the next Making Leaders podcast with 2024 Promise Award Recipient Bradley Williams! Williams is the Acting Associate Director for Flight in the Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Tune in: https://vist.ly/3mpiket Bradley tells us in the podcast: “Looking back, the career advice I’d give myself is to not be as fearful. To not be afraid to make those leaps. Because there’s always a surface, right? Whenever you leap, you’re going to land on something. It might be uncomfortable. It might hurt. But the ground is always underneath you. Even when you’re in orbit, the ground is still underneath you. So, don’t be afraid to make those leaps.”

Info on the next SSPI-WISE meeting below!