The Secure World Foundation Podcast
This podcast features content produced by the Secure World Foundation (SWF), an endowed, private operating foundation that promotes cooperative solutions for space sustainability and the peaceful uses of outer space. The Foundation acts as a research body, convener and facilitator to promote key space security, and other related topics, and to examine their influence on governance and international development.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 76 minutes
- Episodes
- 76
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Space Weather Enterprise Forum Session 2: Space Weather Impacts and Mitigation
Recorded in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017.
SWF co-sponsored, with the National Space Weather Partnership, the 2017 the Space Weather Enterprise Forum. This year’s theme was "Implementing a Nationa…
Space Weather Enterprise Forum Welcome and Opening Address
Recorded in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017.
SWF co-sponsored, with the National Space Weather Partnership, the 2017 the Space Weather Enterprise Forum. This year’s theme was "Implementing a Nationa…
Space Weather as a Global Challenge 2017
Recorded in Washington DC, on May 18, 2017.
The Embassy of Italy, the U.S. Department of State, and Secure World Foundation held a discussion on space weather as a global challenge with a focus on re…
New Actors in the Space Domain
Recorded in Colorado Springs, CO, on April 6, 2017.
There are an increasing number of governmental and private sector actors in space, which could lead to existing new applications and benefits on Ea…
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Outer Space Treaty
Recorded in Washington, DC, on January 27, 2017.
On January 27, 1967, the Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature in Moscow, London, and Washington DC. On the fiftieth anniversary of this occasio…
The United States, China, and Space Security: Issues for the Trump Administration
Recorded in Washington, DC, on January 17, 2017.
On January 11, 2007, China destroyed one of its aging weather satellites using a ground-based anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon. The 2007 ASAT test, and a …
Progress on International Best Practices for Space Sustainability - Part 3
Recorded in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2016.
On June 17, 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) agreed to twelve long-term sustainability (LTS) guideli…
Progress on International Best Practices for Space Sustainability - Part 4
Recorded in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2016.
On June 17, 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) agreed to twelve long-term sustainability (LTS) guideli…
Progress on International Best Practices for Space Sustainability - Part 2
Recorded in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2016.
On June 17, 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) agreed to twelve long-term sustainability (LTS) guideli…
Progress on International Best Practices for Space Sustainability - Part 1
Recorded in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2016.
On June 17, 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) agreed to twelve long-term sustainability (LTS) guideli…
An Examination of the U.S. National Security Space Strategy
Challenges and Opportunities Facing New Space Actors
Space activities are becoming more globalized. Today, more than sixty countries operate one or more satellite in space, and virtually all countries depend on space for some combination of national se…
Asteroids, Mining, and Policy: Practical Consideration of Space Resource Rights
As the domestic and international community discusses and implements policy and legislation focused on space resource rights, this panel will focus on identifying legal, policy, and business implicat…
Space Security: Norms, Resiliency, and Protection
Space security is an increasingly important issue, and one that has taken on new meaning in recent years with increased concerns about protecting space capabilities from both intentional and environm…
Spectrum Protection: An Examination of the Policy and Practical Implications
Our continued ability to get benefits from space assets will be interrupted if spectrum is not responsibly protected. This issue is coming up more and more often, particularly so at meetings last No…
Broadcasting GEOSS: Key Issues in Spectrum Management and Earth Observations
Recent multi-stakeholder discussions have highlighted the limited awareness on spectrum-related issues and their impacts within the broader Earth observations community, and the challenge of capturin…
Commercial Space Stations in LEO: Preparing For the Future
Recorded September 22, 2015
Like many other sectors of space activities that were once "government only," the notion of privately owned and operated space stations is no longer science fiction. Withi…
Challenges In Sharing Weather Satellite Spectrum With Terrestrial Networks
This event was recorded on March 27, 2015.
On Friday, March 27, 2015, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Secure World Foundation (SWF) hosted a luncheon panel discussion from 12:00pm t…
International Law and Military Activities in Outer Space
Recorded March 23, 2015
Although some may consider the two to be at odds with each other, international law has a direct impact on military activities in both peacetime and during conflict. Internati…
Space and the Arctic: Why Space Capabilities Are Important for Sustainable Arctic Development
Recorded January 27, 2015
The Arctic region is changing rapidly, allowing for new opportunities to learn more about this remote area, use it to expand economic development, and build off it for natio…