Spacepower Podcast

He Enlisted to Get Out of Town. Now He's the Space Force's #2. The Story of VCSO Gen. Bratton

He joined at eighteen because he wanted the tech school that would get him out of town the longest. This is the season finale of Spacepower Podcast. Thank you for watchi

The Mayors Building America's Next Launch Corridor

Two American cities had land, airspace, and a hunch. Neither had a guarantee. This is the story of what it actually took to turn that hunch into reality, and a bet that's

Gen. Saltzman & Jennifer Saltzman: The Partnership Behind the Space Force

Nobody handed them the answers. When Chance Saltzman got engaged, two weeks before shipping out for missile training, neither he nor Jennifer knew what military life woul

Maj. Gen. Keener: The Layer Between Capability and Combat

There is a version of ready where the hardware works. There is another version where the people, the doctrine, the joint playbooks, and the partner relationships all hold

How the Space Force is Delivering Launch at the Speed of Need - SYD80

Earlier this year, a finished GPS satellite was sitting in Florida ready to fly. The rocket assigned to it needed more time. The warfighters waiting on that satellite cou

The Space Force's Invisible Battlefield: Why Test and Training Infrastructure Changes Everything

Fighter pilots don't go to war on day one. First comes Red Flag, the punishing mock combat over the Nevada desert designed to be harder than anything a pilot will ever fa

The Signal the World Runs On: GPS with SYD 831

Your phone knows where you are right now. Your bank recorded the exact millisecond of your last transaction. The plane you flew on landed safely in low visibility. The fa

On Our Worst Day, These Links Have to Hold: Inside Military SATCOM with SYD 88

On the worst day imaginable, the day a nuclear decision has to be made, the President of the United States needs to talk to commanders and allies anywhere on Earth. That

Small Force, Big Mission: Jennifer Saltzman on the People Behind the Space Force

Ten thousand Guardians. That's it. The entire United States Space Force fits inside a mid-sized college campus. And yet the domain they protect underpins every GPS route,

What the School That Trains Space Warfighters Has Built, and What Comes Next

Space has been a contested domain for years. The doctrine, the training, and the culture needed to fight and win in it have been built, mostly quietly, at a squadron at N

The Space Force Trains Guardians. Delta 13 Teaches Them Why They Fight.

Most people who know the Space Force exists assume it trains operators. People who know how to run satellites, track threats, and execute missions. What fewer people unde

CMSSF Bentivegna: The Space Force Needs to Double, and Here's Exactly How It Happens

The Space Force needs to double in size. That's not a talking point, it's a legislative ask, a budgetary argument, and a warfighting requirement all at once. In this epi

The Lab Behind the Force: How Military Research Becomes Space Warfighting Capability

Most people have never heard of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Space Force couldn't exist without it. Dr. Andy Williams has been at AFRL since 2003, long enough

The China Space Problem: What Congress Knows, What Americans Don't, and What Happens If We Lose

What happens to the American economy, not just the American military, if China wins the space race? In this episode of the Spacepower Podcast, SFA Founder and host Bill

Can America Build Fast Enough to Win in Space?

The best technology doesn't matter if you can't build enough of it. That's the industrial base challenge facing national security space right now, and it's the central a

Beyond the Artemis Accords: The Case for a Space Treaty Organization

The Artemis Accords brought dozens of nations together around shared principles, but principles without structure aren't policy. In a domain where commerce, exploration,

Our Space Future Depends on What We Teach Kids Today

What does it take to turn today's elementary school students into tomorrow's space workforce? In this episode of the Spacepower Podcast, SFA Founder and host Bill Woolf

EP 25: Lt Gen Michael Lutton, Deputy Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command

Lieutenant General Mike Lutton, Deputy Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, discussed the critical role of space in their mission. He highlighted the evolution o

S1:E9: Joshua Carlson who wrote Spacepower Ascendant: Space Development Theory and a New Space Strategy_Part 1

On this edition of “A Space Pro”, I interview Josh Carlson who recently self-published Spacepower Ascendant: Space Development Theory and a New Space Strategy. A space p

Space Education Committee Lead Introduction

The importance of education in the stand up of the United States Space Force.