Telespazio UK’s Head of Marketing & Sales, Dr Geoff Busswell, spoke recently on the Leaders in STEM Podcast (available below), organised by Intergage Marketing Engineers. The discussion was a wide-ranging one, covering several interesting areas including:

• Geoff’s path into the space industry, which didn’t originally go to plan
• The need to attract talent into the space sector and the initiatives Telespazio UK is involved in to support that
• Emerging trends that could shape the space sector going forward, such as the contribution of satellite data to climate and environment monitoring (see Copernicus Climate Data Store), the lunar economy (Telespazio Moonlight), in orbit assembly & manufacturing, harnessing solar power from space, new methods of high data rate communication via optical links (see press release from e2E, now part of Telespazio UK, on free space optical comms development), the changing balance of space agency support vs commercial services
• Some thoughts for people starting out in their careers
• Two incredible moments to remember, one of which involved an “out-of-this-world” guided tour of the ISS

Also witness the magical moment that Geoff refers to in the video after 49 mins, when ex European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake surprised a room full of school children at the Royal Aeronautical Society.