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Broadcast 1096 (Special Edition)Listen to the show!
Aired on January 26th, 2009
Guests: Ben Baseley-Walker, Brian Weeden
Guests: Brian Weeden and Ben Baseley-Walker. Topics: Secure World Foundation, space situational awareness, space weaponization & militarization, satellite defense. Brian Weeden and Ben Baseley-Walker of the Secure World Foundation presented solid information and strategies for addressing problems around space traffic management and space situational awareness. Our guests were very realistic about the topics discusse. Not only did we talk about space policy and how policy is created, we talked about space weaponization and ways to avoid it, such as the distributive satellite defense. Listeners asked lots of questions about treaties violations, trust and verify, and much more. I believe this to be one of the finest space policy programs ever to appear on The Space Show. Our guests explained how the Secure World Foundation interacts with policy makers in this country and abroad, and how space policy is ultimately decided. This is a program you definitely will want to listen to and possibly reference in the future. Visit http://www.secureworldfoundation.org for more information about the organization and to send email to the Foundation for questions about Secure World, etc. Brian's and Ben's email addresses are on the website, but if you have questions or comments for them, please use the following email addresses: Ben: bbw@swfound.org ; Brian: bweeden@swfound.org .

About our guests...

Ben Baseley-Walker
A British national, Ben Baseley-Walker works on legal and policy issues related to space security. He has worked in the policy and legal field in a variety of settings and countries including Chile, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Netherlands. From 2006 to 2007 Ben lived in Kenya working for the United Nations and the Kenyan Government. He is also currently the Co-Chair of the Vienna-based Space Generation Advisory Council. Ben is an alumnus of the University of Edinburgh and the Universiteit van Amsterdam from which he graduated with a M.A. degree in Politics and an LLM degree in International and European Law respectively. He is a graduate of the International Space University Space Studies Program (2007, Beijing).

Brian Weeden
Brian Weeden is a technical consultant with the Secure World Foundation on space security issues. His current research focuses on space situational awareness, protection of space assets, and development of the technical architecture for space traffic management. Brian spent nine years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force working in space and ICBM operations. From 2004 through 2007 he was part of US Strategic Command's Joint Space Operations Center where he directed the orbital analyst training program and developed tactics, techniques and procedures for space situational awareness. As a certified orbital analyst, he was part of a crew of military personnel that track all artificial objects in Earth orbit and produce the satellite catalog. Brian has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, M.S. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota and is a graduate of the International Space University Space Studies Program (2007, Beijing)

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