Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep.2 - with Michael Traut

The Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), has the pleasure to present Space Cafè Radio - PSSI Space Security Mini-Series, a radio series focused on allied preparedness to face the rapidly changing space domain. PSSI is a non-profit non-governmental public policy organisation founded in 2002 and based in Prague. In space, PSSI emphasizes emerging threats and available policy solutions.

 All the interviews in the PSSI Space Security Mini-Series were conducted during the 6th PSSI Space Security Conference, held in Prague, at the Czernin Palace, the headquarters of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from the 19th to the 21st of June 2022. The conference is part of the PSSI’s well-established series of high-level trilateral space security conferences, where for trilateral we mean Europe, the US, and Japan. The conference series, launched in 2011, is designed to advance decision-making within the security domain among allies. They represent one of the highest levels of unclassified gatherings of military allies, national security experts, and senior industry representatives.

In this second episode SpaceWatch.Global CEO and Publisher, Torsten Kriening interviewed Major General Michael Traut,  Director of the National Air Operation and  Chief of Space Operations Command for the German Ministry of Defense. 

Listen also to the other episodes in the mini-series:

• Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep.1 - with John Huth
• Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep.2 - with Michael Traut
• Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep.3 - with Paul Graziani
• Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep.4 - with Michel Friedling
• Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep. 5 - with Kevin O'Connell

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Chapters

• 0:00 Space Café Radio - PSSI's Space Security Series ep.2 - with Michael Traut
• 2:40 The operational status of the German Space Command
• 4:08 SARah - Germanies eye(s) in space
• 5:03 The impact of the current war in Europe on Germanies Space Activities
• 7:38 Germanies extra defense budget and the Nato committment
• 9:28 Cooperation on the ground
• 11:40 Need for speed to act in the space domain
• 13:49 The role of the EU
• 16:52 A vison on European space capabilities
• 19:12 What can we learn from the Air domain