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Space sustainability beyond the launchpad.
The Secure World Foundation Podcast treats outer space as an economic, environmental, and governance problem, not only a frontier story. Recent ESG in Space episodes follow how satellite data, public-private funding, education, regulation, and national space offices shape the next space economy.
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The Secure World Foundation Podcast treats space as a shared operating environment with business, legal, educational, and geopolitical consequences. Recent ESG in Space episodes ask how the space economy can mature without treating orbit as an unlimited resource. The conversations are structured and institutional. Nishan and Miki Sode often begin with a guest’s role, then use that perspective to test a larger sustainability question. With Masami Onoda, JAXA becomes a way to discuss Japan’s space economy, public-private partnership, non-space companies, and the Space Strategy Fund. With Danny Kim, the focus turns to space education, student spacecraft projects, resilience, and the talent pipeline. With Jonathan Hung, Singapore’s National Space Office opens a conversation about emerging space nations, regional commercial strategy, coordination, and regulation. Kevin Stein’s appearance brings space data down to home insurance and other ground-based industries that may benefit from satellite-derived information without needing to think of themselves as space businesses. Sabrina Allum’s episode connects Europe, ESG measures, reporting standards, rare earth minerals, competitiveness, and sustainability in both terrestrial and orbital terms. Bruno Sanchez Nuno’s conversation brings in open models, satellite imagery, AI for Earth, community use, and the question of who benefits from technical systems. Abhi Tripathi’s episode moves through mission operations, collision avoidance, government-to-government communication, SpaceX’s Starlink API, and the uncertainty around new capital in space. Across these excerpts, the show keeps joining policy language to operational detail. It is not casual astronomy talk. It is a careful forum for people thinking about space as infrastructure, market, commons, and long-term responsibility. The pace can be dense, but the reward is a clearer view of the decisions beneath commercial space growth.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants space policy, commercial space, and sustainability discussed with institutional detail. It is especially fitting for someone interested in governance, ESG, satellite data, and the economic design of space activity.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating the space economy as a systems problem involving capital, regulation, education, industry adoption, and international coordination. Its recent episodes connect orbit to insurance, rare earth minerals, student training, public-private funds, and Earth observation rather than staying with exploration narratives alone.
This podcast features content produced by the Secure World Foundation (SWF), an endowed, private operating foundation that promotes cooperative solutions for space sustainability and the peaceful uses of outer space. The Foundation acts as a research body, convener and facilitator to promote key space security, and other related topics, and to examine their influence on governance and international development.
Satellites might collide, and you get Nishan and Miki asking how everyone learns to share orbit.
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Japan's space strategy takes shape through patient industry outreach and careful use of a fund meant to broaden space's role in the economy.
Japan's space economy comes through as a study in institutional patience. The episode links an early rocket program shaped more by academia than military priorities to JAXA missions including SLIM Moon Sniper and Hayabusa, using SLIM's landing within 100 meters of its lunar…
A grounded look at how space projects can turn early access into future engineering talent.
Space education anchors a broader workforce conversation as Nishan and Miki Sode ask Danny Kim how early training should start and what a future talent pipeline may need.
A season-closing discussion on how capital, coordination, and sustainability could shape the next space economy.
The concluding episode traces how ESG in Space moved from a roundtable on the space economy into white papers and broader conversations about bringing institutional and private capital into the field.
Singapore's space strategy is framed through practical policy, industry links, workforce needs, and commercial ambition.
Singapore's space ambitions come through most clearly in the practical parts of this single-episode review, as Jonathan Hung of the Office of Space Technology and Industry lays out a strategy built on the country's strengths in aerospace, maritime connectivity, and space-related…
Kevin Stein explains how space data can become practical insurance infrastructure and support a more sustainable space economy.
Space data matters most when it stops sounding remote and starts helping with ordinary decisions. Here, Kevin Stein of Delos traces that handoff from aerospace engineering and spacecraft design into products built for industries on the ground.
A practical European case for building sustainability into space business models from the start.
Space sustainability is treated as a business durability question, with Sabrina Allum giving Nishan and Niki Sode a European view of how regulation, operators, and ESG measures now intersect.
A measured discussion of open satellite AI, forest carbon measurement, and who gets a say in space-related markets.
ESG in Space asks a timely, practical question: whether the private space industry needs a sustainability or ESG framework of its own. Nishan Degnarein and Miki Sode speak with Bruno Sanchez Nuno about Clay, its open model, and the communities that could put it to work.
From ice-saving glass spheres to printed concrete, explained firsthand.
Particle accelerators, compost piles and Queen's guitarist, all explained.
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
The Secure World Foundation Podcast episode on ESG in Space centers on Masami Onoda's view of JAXA's role in Japan's space economy and the broader lunar race.
The Secure World Foundation Podcast episode 'ESG in Space: Danny Kim' centers on Danny Kim's classroom-to-ISS model for space education.
The finale of ESG in Space argues that trust, coordination, and institutional capital still matter even as the term ESG has become controversial.
["Jonathan Hung says Singapore treats space as a small-country effort built around \"do more with less,\" and points to about 70 companies and roughly 2,000 professionals and researchers in the ecosystem.", "He traces that ecosystem back to a 1971 Sentosa ground station and a 1998 communications satellite, then says Austin began in 2013 and became Singapore's National Space Office in 2020.", "Hung ties Singapore's approach to TransCelestial's laser communication work, the Artemis Accords, COPUS, and Secure World Foundation workshops on long-term sustainability and space traffic management.", "He also cites the Earth Observation Initiative, 15 founding members, and S$210 million in R&D support after a S$60 million top-up as evidence that the country is building practical capability."]
["Kevin Stein says Delos turns satellite imagery and other space data into wildfire-risk insurance for California, and the company already writes about $85 million in premium.", "He traces Delos back to 2016-17, before the 2017 Tubbs fire and Thomas fire made California wildfire exposure harder to ignore.", "Stein argues that the space industry grows faster through last-mile products like insurance, logistics, and agriculture than through hardware alone.", "He says insurance pricing and liability can push safer spacecraft design and better data sourcing, giving end users a real seat at the table."]
The Secure World Foundation Podcast examines ESG in space through Sabrina Allum's European experience across NASA, the European Space Agency, SES Satellites, BDO Luxembourg, and Cape Cod.
In ESG in Space | Bruno Sanchez | Episode 5, Nishan Degnarein and Miki Sode ask whether private space needs a sustainability or ESG framework.
Bill Diamond, president and CEO of the SETI Institute, tells hosts Nishad Degrain and Mickey Thode that falling launch costs from SpaceX, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab make science in orbit more affordable.
The Secure World Foundation Podcast interviews Abhi Tripathi about whether the growing space economy can move beyond government and military funding.
Opening address at the 2018 Space Weather Enterprise Forum explaining what space weather is and its potential impacts on technology.
Brian Whedon introduces a discussion on space debris challenges and the lack of concrete progress in addressing them since the first Trash in the Skies event five years ago.
Michael Simpson introduces a forum on new actors in space and a handbook for them at the Space Symposium.
A panel discussion commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty, featuring experts discussing its history, the role of the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and the treaty's significance for space governance.
A panel discussion on private sector perspectives regarding international best practices for space sustainability.