Space Café Radio

"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...

"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 Gen...

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...

"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. Cro...

"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 Awake...

"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 De...

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 fut...

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 ye...

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...

Host Yvette Gonzalez , Senior Editor at SpaceWatch. Global, talks with Christian Fidi (General Manager) and Sascha Bechthold (VP Engineering and Product Development) of TTTECH’s aerospace   business entity - the Vienna-based company quietly powering modern aerospace's most consequential missions. The Heritage: 🚀 Spinoff of the Technical University Vienna – TU Wien (1998) ✈️ Over 1 billion fl...

Host Torsten Kriening , Publisher of SpaceWatch. Global, talks with Dr. Daniel Baker , Director of the Space Policy Center at CU Boulder, recorded hours before Artemis 2's splashdown. Why Colorado?   Highest concentration of space activity globally-per capita Massive aerospace industry, military space, and science presence  Strong academic foundation Key Topics: 🔧 The Engineer's Blind S...

Join Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch. Global, for this special episode recorded live at the second Middle East Space Conference in Muscat, Oman in January 2026, featuring His Excellency Dr. Ali Al Shidhani, Undersecretary of Communications and IT at Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology. In a historic moment for the Gulf region, Dr. Al Shidhani reve...

The Transparent Battlefield: Space, AI, and the Future of Military Operations In this episode of Space Café Radio , host Torsten Kriening speaks with Major General Armin Fleischmann , Head of Planning for Cyber and Information Domain (CID) and Digitalization of the Bundeswehr, about how modern warfare is being fundamentally transformed by space, data, and artificial intelligence. At the core of th...

From Vision to Action: Why Space Symposium 2026 Matters Now More Than Ever In this forward-looking episode of Space Café Radio , Torsten Kriening speaks with Dr. Heather Pringle Maj Gen, USAF (Ret.), CEO of the Space Foundation, ahead of the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs - a gathering that is no longer just an event, but a global platform for action . After years of alignment, the outlo...

From Vision to Execution: The UAE’s Next Space Chapter In this special episode of Space Cafe Radio , recorded live at the Middle East Space Conference in Oman, Torsten Kriening speaks with His Excellency Salem Al Qubaisi , Director General of the UAE Space Agency , about the remarkable evolution of the UAE as a modern, agile space nation. In just over a decade, the United Arab Emirates has moved f...

"We have to bring people together. If we want a functioning ecosystem, we have to break these silos." On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026 , this special episode of Space Café Radio brings together host Laura Todd , Senior Advisor and Editor at SpaceWatch. Global, with Prof. Dr. Rafaela Kraus from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich for a thought-provoking conversation a...

From Mars to the Moon: The UAE’s Bold Space Vision In this powerful episode of Space Cafe Radio, recorded live at the Middle East Space Conference 2026 in Muscat, Oman, Torsten Kriening sits down with H.E. Salem Al Marri , Managing Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), to reflect on one of the most remarkable space transformations of the past two decades. From its beginnings in...

Refueling the Future: How Orbit Fab is Building Gas Stations in Space Join host Maria Varmazis from T-Minus Space Daily as she sits down with Daniel Faber , CEO of Orbit Fab , at Commercial Space Week in Orlando, Florida for this special guest production for Space Café Radio. In this fascinating conversation, Daniel reveals how his company is revolutionizing space operations by building the critic...

Power, Responsibility, and Europe’s Moment of Truth In this episode of Space Cafe Radio , host Torsten Kriening speaks with Dr. Patrick Keller , Deputy Research Director at the German Council on Foreign Relations , about a world order that is no longer theoretical - but brutally real. Dr. Keller dismantles one of Europe’s most comfortable assumptions: that international politics is still governed...

Brazil's Space Sector: 2025 Shifts and Future Outlook In this episode of Space Cafe Radio, host Torsten Kriening sits down with Ian Grosner , the Head of the Legal Department of the Brazilian Space Agency , Chair of the Working Group on the Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space of COPUOS, Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Subcommittee (LAC-SC) of the IAF to discuss the significan...

Space Threats and Nordic Perspectives on Security: In-Depth with NOSA's Christian Hauglie-Hanssen Join us in this insightful episode of Space Cafe Radio, where host Torsten Kriening talks about the critical role of space in security and defense from a Nordic perspective with Christian Hauglie-Hanssen , CEO of the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) . He shares his reflections on 2025 and sheds ligh...

Inside the DLR: National Security and Space Defense review 2025 with Prof. Dr. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla Join us in this episode of Space Cafe Radio as host Torsten Kriening sits down with Inside the DLR: National Security and Space Defense review 2025 with Prof. Dr. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla , Chairwoman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). They talk the evolving role of DLR in national security and space...

Reflecting on the Future of Military Space Strategies with Dr Bleddyn Bowen In this episode of Space Cafe Radio, host Torsten Kriening talks about the evolution of military space strategies and the pressing defense issues facing Europe in 2025. He welcomes back Dr Bleddyn Bowen , Associate Professor of AstroPolitics at Durham University, to discuss a wide range of topics, including Europe's s...

2025 and Beyond: The Franco-German Dynamics in Military Space with Dr Xavier Pasco Join us as host Torsten Kriening sits down at the sidelines of the EU ISOS Strategic Forum 2025 in Munich with Dr Xavier Pasco , Director of the French Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), to discuss the shifting dynamics in European military space policy. In the review series for 2025, they discuss the strategi...

DLR National Experimental Test Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Innovations and Future Prospects In this episode of Space Café Radio, host Torsten Kriening talks about the inauguration of the DLR National Drone Research Center in Cochstedt, Germany, on December 8, 2025. Joined by Daniel Suelberg , the center's Head, they explore the strategic and operational reasons behind Germany's...