"If someone ever claims they've finished implementing all the cyber, it's nonsense - it's a continually evolving problem." That clear-eyed honesty runs through this entire conversation, recorded live at SmallSat Europe in Amsterdam, where Torsten Kriening sits down with Roger Patrick, Director of Sales and Business Development at TERMA. TERMA sits right at the core of the operational chain - building satellite control and test systems that integrate with manufacturers and operators - which ma...
Jul 23
18 min
"We're the supermarket of data. If you want a biscuit, you buy the milk - you don't need to be an expert in cows." That's how Franck Mouriaux frames one of the most visual ideas in this conversation, recorded live amid the noise of Eurosatory in Paris, where Torsten Kriening steps into the UAE Pavilion to sit down with the acting CEO of FADA, an EDGE company. Mouriaux is a space engineer whose CV reads like a tour of modern spaceflight - Sentinel-1, Galileo, EarthCARE, OneWeb, and Rocket La...
Jul 9
20 min
"When allied intelligence sharing fails, it's almost never a collection failure - it's an integration failure." That's the uncomfortable argument Major General Paul Lynch opened the main stage with at GEOINT 2026, and it's the thread Torsten Kriening pulls on in this candid, wide-ranging conversation recorded live in Aurora, Colorado. As Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence at NATO Headquarters for nearly three years - and a Royal Marine with a 30-year career behind him - Lynch...
Jun 18
33 min
What does it take for a nation to treat space not as a scientific hobby, but as a strategic necessity? Live from the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Torsten Kriening sits down with Major General Michael Traut, Commander of the German Space Command, for a candid conversation about turning vision into execution. This episode moves from strategy to hard numbers: Germany's historic €35 billion (rising to roughly €45 billion) space investment, the new Space Safety and Security Strategy w...
Jun 11
35 min
Space Café Radio - Permission to Retire: Denied - How the US Space Force Was Born with Clint Crosier
"It's not about the satellites and rockets - it's about the data." That single line captures a career that has reshaped how the world thinks about space. Live from the Cheyenne Mountain Resort on the eve of the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Torsten Kriening sits down with Major General (Ret.) Clint Crosier for a rare, candid conversation across three transformations. Crosier was the lead architect of the U.S. Space Force - and he takes us behind closed doors: the empty white board, the...
Jun 4
35 min
"I think the US in general doesn't pay much attention to European space." That's how Dr. Michael Gleason of the Aerospace Corporation opens - and it's exactly the blind spot this conversation sets out to expose. Recorded live on day two of the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Torsten Kriening sits down with the analyst whose latest paper, "Geopolitical Awakening: The European Union and Space," made a lot of Europeans uncomfortable - not because he got it wrong, but because an America...
May 28
21 min
"Space is a team sport." With that single phrase, German Major General Wolfgang Ohl captures the shift that defined Germany's presence at the 41st Space Symposium - and perhaps the decade ahead for European space defense. Recorded live on the final day in Colorado Springs, Torsten Kriening sits down with the Deputy Director of the Armed Forces Department at the German Ministry of Defense for a candid, strategic conversation. Germany arrived this year with a footprint never seen before: its la...
May 21
23 min
In this episode of Space Cafe Radio, host Torsten Kriening, Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global, sits down with Marshall Smith, CEO of Starlab Space, at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The conversation reconnects a story that began in Bremen back in 2018, when Marshall was wiring together SLS, Orion, and Gateway at NASA, and now finds him on the other side, building the commercial future he once championed from inside the agency. From NASA Insider to Commercial Builder Marshall refl...
May 14
20 min
In this special edition of Space Cafe Radio, host Torsten Kriening, Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global, sits down with Daniel Faber, former CEO of Orbit Fab, on the sun deck of Daniel's home near Hidden Lake outside Denver, Colorado. After almost a decade of knowing each other, this conversation hits differently. Daniel has just stepped down from Orbit Fab - the company he co-founded eight years ago to make satellites refuelable - and is preparing his next bold move. What unfolds is a wide-rangin...
May 7
23 min
In this episode of Space Cafe Radio, host Torsten Kriening, Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global, sits down with Sean Wiid, CEO of UP42, the Berlin-based Earth Observation platform now part of the Neo Space Group. A Unique Vantage Point UP42 sits at a fascinating intersection: a European EO platform headquartered in Berlin, now under Neo Space Group ownership, operating commercially across the world. This positioning gives Sean exceptional perspective on the global EO market in 2026. Episode Highl...
Apr 30
30 min
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