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The Space Policy Show

The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy hosts this series to bring our policy experts together with thought leaders, government, academia and professionals from throughout the space community to discuss current trends and views. Go to https://csps.aerospace.org/events to subscribe for webcast reminders or find us on YouTube. #TheSpacePolicyShow

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“All the estimates of the size of the space economy and the growth forecasts that we're seeing vary pretty wildly, because there's no one definition of the space economy. The BEA's definition is very expansive: everything that takes place in space, everything that supports it, and all the things that depend on space to function. But to understand the production of satellites, you need a much narrower definition.” — Jacklyn Buhrmann, The Space Policy Show
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“Businesses are not going to increase manufacturing capacity based on a kind of promise. Industry might hear a demand signal from the warfighter community, but it may be so divorced from the budget process and the acquisition process that the actual demand is years down the road. It's one thing for the government to say we want to buy more of your stuff, but a lot of that risk is front-loaded on industry to make those commitments today.” — Andrew Berglund, The Space Policy Show
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“Can two supply chains scale at the same time if they rely on some of the same upstream suppliers? You might look at the supply chain for one kind of satellite and conclude it can scale, then look at another and conclude that too. But the same small supplier might enter both. That is so hard to know from the data that we have. Frankly, it's probably unknowable from the data that we have.” — Jacklyn Buhrmann, The Space Policy Show
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“There's the silver tsunami idea: a lot of the mom-and-pop machine shops are heading into a retirement wave, they don't have an obvious successor, and they might just close shop. It can literally be a handful of those shops supplying a small but critical part of the space supply chain. Everybody wants to be a founder. Can we bring some people to be sustainers, to step into those businesses and carry that critical work forward?” — Andrew Berglund, The Space Policy Show
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“Space has a hard time competing within these input markets, because smartphones are a billion-dollar-plus annual business and satellites are not growing to that level, at least not yet. So space has to compete for these underlying technologies and then needs them to be more specialized. You go to that sensor manufacturer and say, we love this technology, but we also need it to be rad-hardened. It's pretty much always going to be less than the number of smartphones that are sold.” — Andrew Berglund, The Space Policy Show
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“When I was a kid, NVIDIA chips were for my friends building their computers to play games. The same graphics processing units are powering AI frontier model development now. That's how quickly that's changed. You see recent stories about data centers pulling aircraft turbines off of decommissioned aircraft to power data centers. The demand and that competition can change so quickly. It's a strong argument for really high-quality data to drive decision-making.” — Andrew Berglund, The Space Policy Show
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Hosts

The Space Policy Show is hosted by Colleen Stover , Jamie Morin , Karen Jones , Mick Gleason , Angie Bukley , Robin Dickey , Sam Wilson , Audrey Allison , Lori Gordon , Kara Cunzeman , James Vedda and Samira Patel .

Recent Episodes

  1. 12 Nov 2026

    Ep. 179: Space Economy Under the Microscope

    With Andrew Berglund and Jacklyn Buhrmann

  2. 28 Oct 2026

    Ep. 178: Dynamics of Uncertainty

    With Russell Rumbaugh and Amy J. Nelson

  3. 21 Oct 2026

    Ep. 177: Regulators Modernize @ FCC

    With Arpan Sura

  4. 14 Oct 2026

    Ep. 176: Data Centers in Orbit

    With Tim Bixler and Andrew Abraham

  5. 7 Oct 2026

    Ep. 175: Who Regulates Nuclear?

    With Stuart Forbes

  6. 23 Sep 2026

    Ep. 174: Go Army Space

    With Joseph Mroszczyk

  7. 16 Sep 2026

    Ep. 173: Space – Strategy – Sci-Fi

    With Namrata Goswami

  8. 3 Aug 2026

    #172: Space Force Evolution

    With B. Chance Saltzman

  9. 8 Jul 2026

    Ep. 172: Space Force Evolution

    With B. Chance Saltzman

  10. 3 Jun 2026

    Ep. 171: Humanity on the Moon

    With J.D. Polk

  11. 20 May 2026

    Ep. 170: Science for Defense

    With Stacie Williams

  12. 13 May 2026

    Ep. 169: Enabling In-Space Economy

    With Dylan Taylor and Will Bruey

Guests

Brian Weeden (4 episodes), David Eccles (3 episodes), Andrew Abraham (3 episodes), Tom Stroup (3 episodes), Andrew Berglund (2 episodes), Dava Newman (2 episodes), George Nield (2 episodes), Ashley Kowalski (2 episodes), Krystal Azelton (2 episodes), Barbara Braun (2 episodes), Gabriel Swiney (2 episodes), Grant Cates (2 episodes), and 221 more.