The podcast

Long conversations with the people building Asian space.

Operators, founders, investors, policymakers. One conversation at a time. The interview is where the reporting starts — the essays are where it lands.

Episode 05 · Featured

Recorded in Hong Kong · 38 minutes

She spent 18 months reading about nuclear fusion before writing a cheque.

Alexandra Vidyuk is a physicist, a former banker in London and Hong Kong, and the founder of Beyond Earth Ventures — a deep tech fund backing Xona Space Systems, Lunar Outpost, Zeno Power and Singapore's own Transcelestial. Why US–China tension makes deep tech more investable rather than less, what Singapore has that the rest of Asian space doesn't, and how you convince a family office to wait 16 years for an IPO.

Episode 04

Two decades at NASA, then Singapore — why space needs more than engineers.

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Episode 03

The bottleneck in Asian space isn't capital or rockets. It's people.

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Episode 02 · Short

Where Asia-Pacific fits in the global launch market.

A quick one — where Asia-Pacific sits in the global launch market, straight from Rocket Lab's business-development side.

Episode 01

Before you send a billion-dollar machine to the Moon, you need to know it'll survive Moon dirt — so we make the next best thing.

Nicholas Barnett at Satellite Asia. He and co-founder Andrew Hazelton run Interstellar Mapping — the company making the fake Moon dirt every lunar mission needs to test on before launch.

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Simon Gwozdz (Equatorial Space) on building Southeast Asia's first private launch. Coming soon.