The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) was created in 1984 by six Mercury 7 astronauts. Since then astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs have pursued the mission to encourage university students pursuing scientific excellence. The prestigious Astronaut Scholarship is known nationwide for being among the largest merit-based monetary scholarships awarded to undergraduate STEM juniors and seniors. ASF has a life-long relationship with each Astronaut Scho...
Apr 26, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Japan’s Space Agency (JAXA) releases phase 2 of its ¥1 Trillion, 10-year Strategic Space Fund. Planet Labs has signed a multi-year contract with EMDYN. MaiaSpace has selected the Łukasiewicz Research Network’s Institute of Aviation to develop the engine that will power its kick stage, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Elysia Segal from NASASpaceflight.com brings us the Space Traffic Report....
Apr 25, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 508
China launches the Shenzhou 20 spacecraft with three astronauts to the Tiangong Space Station. Katalyst Space has acquired in-space servicing company Atomos Space. The United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded a $2.9 million contract to Raft LLC for the development of an Application Programming Interface (API), and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest...
Apr 24, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 507
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded $55M to Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) for Tranche 3 (T3) Program and Integration. Northwood Space has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round to support a global ground network. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer Biomass satellite has been secured on top of the Vega-C rocket ahead of liftoff on April 29, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow...
Apr 23, 2025•15 min•Season 1Ep. 506
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has completed a second satellite docking demonstration as part of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission. India plans to partner with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on seven experiments for the Axiom 4 mission. SpaceX launches the Bandwagon 3 mission carrying payloads for South Korea, Tomorrow Companies and Atmos Space Cargo, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-M...
Apr 22, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 505
The African Space Agency (AfSA) has officially opened its headquarters in Cairo. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO( in partnership with the United States Space Force (USSF) Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, launched the NROL-145 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX launched the 32nd resupply mission to the ISS, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest is P...
Apr 21, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 504
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) has raised concerns with risks on the International Space Station (ISS). Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin hands over command of the ISS to JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi ahead of his departure from the ISS. China says it has completed the rescue of two satellites after a launch failure, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Elysia Seg...
Apr 19, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 503
You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Our guests on this episode are Dax Garner, CTO at Cognitive Space and Ed Meletyan, AWS Sr Solutions Architect. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Reading AWS Aerospace and Satellite Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space inte...
Apr 19, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 21
James “Jim” Myers, Senior Vice President of the Civil Systems Group at the Aerospace Corporation discusses the shift in cybersecurity threats and the need for better cyber hygiene in the space industry. You can connect with Jim on LinkedIn, and learn more about the Aerospace Corporation on their website. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete o...
Apr 19, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 94
The United States Space Force releases its Warfighting Framework. Northrop Grumman launches a Minotaur 4 rocket from Vandenberg for an NRO mission. L3Harris Technologies has completed a $125 million expansion at its space manufacturing facility in Indiana, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Joshua Western, CEO and Co-founder of Space Forge. You can connect wi...
Apr 17, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 502
HRL Laboratories and Boeing have completed the construction of their joint quantum entanglement swapping satellite. Officials from the US and the Republic of Korea have held the fourth U.S.-ROK Civil Space Dialogue. Chunghwa Telecom has signed an agreement with US satellite provider Astranis to bring a dedicated microGEO satellite to Taiwan, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Readin...
Apr 16, 2025•19 min•Season 1Ep. 501
Rocket Lab has been on-ramped for US and UK defense contracts to expand hypersonic technology development with its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE). Redwire has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to provide four International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM) for ESA’s Lunar I-Hab. Lúnasa has been awarded a contract by ESA for “Deep Neural Network for Robust Satellite Model Matching”, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast ...
Apr 15, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 500
Blue Origin carries the first all-female crew to the Kármán line. A leaked copy of the US Administration's 2026 budget request includes a 47% cut to NASA's science programs. NASA seeks business models that propose new approaches to solving complex Earth science problems using unconventional computing methods, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Patrick O'Neill...
Apr 14, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 499
The Space Foundation produces quarterly space reports providing data and analysis into the global space economy. Q1’s report focuses on the space workforce. It found that the space industry talent market surged in early 2025, with job postings to an industry website up 17% from the prior year. We spoke to Lesley Conn, the Director of Research & Analysis and Digital Programming and Cass Cameron Managing Editor of the Space Foundation Q1 edition of The Space Report. You can find the Space Repo...
Apr 12, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 93
India’s Bellatrix Aerospace has announced expansion of operations to the US. Privateer Space has announced a strategic investment from the Far Eastern Group. ispace-US and Zenno Power have signed an agreement to jointly develop technologies that enable lunar missions to survive the harsh lunar night, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Elysia Segal from NASASpaceflight.com bring...
Apr 11, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 498
NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman appeared at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Intelsat has become the first and only satellite operator to complete a satellite life-extension mission. Sirius Space is collaborating with Ursa Major on the development of a medium-launch (ML) engine, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Gu...
Apr 10, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 497
You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Our guests on this episode are AJ Gemer, CTO at Lunar Outpost and Salem El Nimri, CTO at AWS Aerospace & Satellite. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Reading AWS Aerospace and Satellite Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’ll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical s...
Apr 09, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 20
The US Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Front Door office has launched a new initiative designed to enhance unclassified threat-information-sharing with commercial space companies. Astroscale US to conduct two refueling operations of a US Department of Defense (DoD) satellite in geostationary orbit (GEO) for the USSF. Vast has announced that Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Interstellar Lab, and Exobiosphere are the latest payload partners for its Haven-1 Lab, and more. Re...
Apr 09, 2025•15 min•Season 1Ep. 496
You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Our guests today are Ed Meletyan, Senior Solutions Architect AWS, William Duhe, AWS Senior SW Development Engineer; and, Junk Wilson VP, Business Development at Orion Space Solutions. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Reading AWS Aerospace and Satellite Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’l...
Apr 08, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Firefly Aerospace to perform a responsive on-orbit mission with its Elytra spacecraft in support of the US Department of Defense (DoD’s) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Sinequone Project. A Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft carrying a three-member crew arrived at the International Space Station. Millennium Space Systems has completed the critical design review (CDR) for the FOO Fighter, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on Linked...
Apr 08, 2025•14 min•Season 1Ep. 495
US Space Systems Command has awarded three National Security Space Launch (NSSL) contracts to SpaceX, ULA and Blue Origin. Aetherflux has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round. A US Senate Committee will hold a hearing on Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator on April 9, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Bailey Reichelt and Jack Shelton bring us the ‘As...
Apr 07, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 494
Agnes Chavez created STEMarts Lab with a mission to empower youth through art, science and technology. She has created several education programs that involve students developing installations that communicate STEM subjects through art. She walks us through her non-profit STEMarts Lab. You can connect with Agnes on LinkedIn, and learn more about STEMarts on their website. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Insta...
Apr 05, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 92
SpaceX’s Fram2 completes its nearly four day mission and returns to Earth off the coast of California. Astra raises $80 million since taking the company private. Intelsat selected to provide maritime satellite connectivity for the US Space Force, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Elysia Segal from NASASpaceflight.com brings us the Space Traffic Report. Selected Reading FRAM2 m...
Apr 04, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 493
SpinLaunch has received a $12 million investment from Kongsberg, and exclusively contracts NanoAvionics for 280 satellites to be part of the Meridian constellation. Portal Space Systems raises $17.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round. ispace-US has formed a US Lunar Science Advisory Board, chaired by Dr. Alan Stern, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Ste...
Apr 03, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 492
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme has selected Thales Alenia Space to extend the service life of the EGNOS satellite. Sidus Space is partnering with Lonestar Data Holdings to design, build and provide on-orbit support for six lunar data storage spacecraft. Slingshot Aerospace has been selected by AFWERX to support its Rapid Analysis of Photometric Tracks for space Object identification and behavior Recognition program (RAPTOR), and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and r...
Apr 02, 2025•16 min•Season 1Ep. 491
SpaceX has successfully launched the four-person Fram2 mission to polar orbit. The European Space Agency has released its annual space environment report. GITAI Japan has been contracted by JAXA to conduct a concept study for a robotic arm system intended for use on a pressurized crewed lunar rover, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Gary L. Gilbert, Author o...
Apr 01, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 490
You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Our guests today are Andrew Faiola, Commercial Vice President at Astroscale UK and Allegra Matarangas, Account Executive at AWS for Aerospace and Satellite. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Reading AWS Aerospace and Satellite Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our short survey. It’ll help us get better and de...
Mar 31, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Isar Aerospace’s inaugural Spectrum launch from Norway’s Andøya Spacepor ends in a crash. NASA has amended its launch services contract with SpaceX to add Starship. NASA and Boeing say they are making progress toward crew certification of the CST-100 Starliner system, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Selected Reading Newsroom First Test Flight NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space...
Mar 31, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 489
Should space be designated as critical infrastructure? What are the threats we’re facing in space for cybersecurity? We tackle these questions with our guest Jake Braun, former White House Principal Deputy National Cyber Director and chairman of DEF CON Franklin. You can connect with Jake on LinkedIn. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our ...
Mar 29, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 91
The United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) has on ramped Rocket Lab and Stoke Space for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo freighter NG-22 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed indefinitely. The United Nations (UN) agencies for telecommunications, aviation and maritime shipping have called for urgent protection of the radio navigation satellite service (RNNS), and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star ...
Mar 28, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 488
