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 01 · Featured

· Recorded at Satellite Asia 2026, Singapore

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.

27 minutes with 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. The interview behind Issue 05.

Read Issue 05 — the full piece behind the interview →

Episode 02

Inside Singapore's plan to win the space economy.

Singapore stood up its National Space Agency in April 2026 and is pointing its semiconductor and engineering base at orbit. A breakdown of the plan, the players, and where the city-state is placing its bets.

Episode 03 · Short

Interview with Rocket Lab's Global Business Developer.

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

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What's next in the queue

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

Cedric Ng (Space Faculty) on building the next generation of space industry talent. TBC.