Spacepower is a strategic podcast from the Space Force Association exploring the leaders, ideas, and operations shaping the space domain. Hosted by SFA Founder Bill “Hippie” Woolf, the show features conversations with senior military leaders, policymakers, and industry experts on deterrence, maneuver, technology, and the evolving role of space in national security. Episodes include in-depth interviews and solo analysis breaking down the trends defining the future of spacepower.
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Spacepower is a strategic podcast from the Space Force Association exploring the leaders, ideas, and operations shaping the space domain. Hosted by SFA Founder Bill “Hippie” Woolf, the show features conversations with senior military leaders, policymakers, and industry experts on deterrence, maneuver, technology, and the evolving role of space in national security. Episodes include in-depth interviews and solo analysis breaking down the trends defining the future of spacepower.
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July 20, 2026
How the Space Force is Delivering Launch at the Speed of Need - SYD80
<p>Earlier this year, a finished GPS satellite was sitting in Florida ready to fly. The rocket assigned to it needed more time. The warfighters waiting on that satellite could not.</p><p>So System Delta 80 moved it. Different rocket. Full recertification. On orbit in about six weeks. What normally takes two years happened in a month and a half, and it was the fourth time the team had pulled off something like it.</p><p>Nothing in national security space gets off the ground without System Delta 80. Every satellite this series has covered, the SATCOM links, the GPS constellation, the systems certified by OTTI, all of it begins at the launch pad. This episode is the capstone: how the Space Force gets its most critical capabilities to orbit, what it takes to keep multiple launch providers viable, and what becomes possible when satellites are no longer constrained by the fuel they launched with.</p><p>In this episode of the Spacepower Podcast, SFA Founder and host Bill Woolf sits down with Col. Ryan Hiserote, Commander of System Delta 80 at Space Systems Command, to discuss the National Security Space Launch program, the GPS rocket swap that made headlines, and the on-orbit servicing mission that could fundamentally change how the Space Force operates in space.</p><p>In this conversation, Col. Hiserote discusses:</p><p>- Why System Delta 80's claim — that nothing in national security space gets off the ground without it — is literal, not rhetorical</p><p>- How the dual-lane NSSL structure works: Lane 1 for competition and capacity, Lane 2 for no-fail missions with complex requirements</p><p>- What it actually takes to certify a new rocket for national security missions — and why that process takes years</p><p>- How the GPS 3-8 rocket swap worked, why it happened, and what it signals about the Space Force's willingness to move at the speed of need</p><p>- Why Rocket Lab and Stoke Space were added as Lane 1 providers in early 2025 — and what the service is looking for as it evaluates more</p><p>- The on-orbit servicing mission: what Starfish Space's Otter vehicle and Astroscale's refueling demo are designed to prove</p><p>- Why Gen. Whiting at U.S. Space Command has been calling for a maneuver warfare strategy in space — and how on-orbit refueling enables it</p><p>- What it means for a satellite to be "no longer constrained by its gas tank" — and how that changes tactics</p><p>- Why Col. Hiserote describes launch as a team sport — and who all the players are</p><p>- Why he calls this the most exciting time to be in the launch business since the Apollo days</p><p>The Space Force can build the most advanced satellites in the world. They mean nothing until they reach orbit. This is the mission that starts everything else — and it's about to get a lot more capable.</p><p>Hosted by Bill Woolf</p><p></p><p>Guest:</p><p>Col. Ryan Hiserote, Commander, System Delta 80, Space Systems Command</p><p>Col. Hiserote commands System Delta 80, the Space Systems Command unit responsible for space access — launch, range operations, and on-orbit servicing. He also serves as dual-hatted program manager for the National Security Space Launch program, the largest dollar-value program in the Space Force. A certified mission director, Col. Hiserote personally served as mission director for the two most recent GPS launches.</p><p>Learn more about Space Systems Command: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/</a></p><p>Learn more about the U.S. Space Force: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.spaceforce.mil/</a></p><p>Join SFA: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ussfa.org/" target="_blank">https://ussfa.org/</a></p><p>Subscribe for more conversations on spacepower, national security, and the future of the space domain.</p>
July 9, 2026
The Space Force's Invisible Battlefield: Why Test and Training Infrastructure Changes Everything
<p>Fighter pilots don't go to war on day one. First comes Red Flag, the punishing mock combat over the Nevada desert designed to be harder than anything a pilot will ever face in actual conflict, so that when the real moment comes, it isn't the first time.</p><p>For most of the space mission's history, that rehearsal didn't exist. Guardians operated systems that had only ever been tested in benign environments. The capabilities were real. The training wasn't. System Delta 81 is the unit changing that.</p><p>In this episode of the Spacepower Podcast, SFA Founder and host Bill Woolf sits down with Col. Corey Klopstein, Commander of System Delta 81 at Space Systems Command, to discuss the Operational Test and Training Infrastructure, OTTI, the Space Force's answer to Red Flag, and why building it is one of the most consequential things SSC is doing right now.</p><p>In this conversation, Col. Klopstein discusses:</p><p>- Why the Space Force went this long without a Red Flag equivalent, and what changed in the threat environment to make OTTI urgent</p><p>- The three layers of space test and training infrastructure: digital simulation, physical on-orbit assets, and the data architecture connecting them</p><p>- Why a simulation is only as honest as the live data feeding it, and what it takes to build a physical lane that validates the digital one</p><p>- What a range-as-a-service contract looks like in practice, and how a commercial satellite's on-orbit maneuver became a live Guardian training event</p><p>- Why SYD 81 pairs with multiple commands simultaneously, Space Training and Readiness Command and Combat Forces Command, rather than a single Mission Delta</p><p>- How the Joint Simulation Environment, already used by F-35 pilots, is being extended for space</p><p>- What Gen. Saltzman told Col. Klopstein about delivering an F-22 without a training infrastructure, and why that analogy captures exactly what OTTI solves</p><p>- Why "when I say football and you say football, we need to mean the same thing", and what that has to do with building a shared operational language across commands and allies</p><p>- What ruthless prioritization looks like for a mission area with more requirements than people and more requirements than money</p><p></p><p>You can build the most advanced satellite in the world. If the Guardian operating it has never trained against a thinking adversary, you haven't delivered combat power. This episode is about the infrastructure that closes that gap, before the conflict starts.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by Bill Woolf</p><p>Produced by Ty Holliday</p><p></p><p>Guest:</p><p>Col. Corey Klopstein, Commander, System Delta 81, Space Systems Command</p><p>Col. Klopstein commands System Delta 81, the Space Systems Command unit responsible for developing and delivering the Operational Test and Training Infrastructure for the Space Force. On his 13th year at Los Angeles Air Force Base, he serves as both the SYD 81 commander and the Portfolio Acquisition Executive and Program Acquisition Executive for infrastructure. SYD 81 works across Space Training and Readiness Command and Combat Forces Command to ensure delivered capabilities are tested against real threats and Guardians are trained to operate them before the first flag event.</p><p>Learn more about Space Systems Command: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/</a></p><p>Learn more about the U.S. Space Force: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.spaceforce.mil/</a></p><p>Join SFA: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ussfa.org/" target="_blank">https://ussfa.org/</a></p><p>Subscribe for more conversations on spacepower, national security, and the future of the space domain.</p>
June 25, 2026
The Signal the World Runs On: GPS with SYD 831
<p>Your phone knows where you are right now. Your bank recorded the exact millisecond of your last transaction. The plane you flew on landed safely in low visibility. The farmer who grew your food planted rows one to two centimeters apart. Every one of those things runs on a signal broadcast from twelve thousand miles overhead, a signal the United States Space Force has guaranteed to the entire world, by law, since way before its inception, 1978.</p><p>GPS is the closest thing the planet has to a shared utility. It is also something the Space Force has to defend, every single day, against adversaries who cannot out-engineer it and are actively trying to deny it.</p><p>In this episode of the Spacepower Podcast, SFA Founder and host Bill Woolf sits down with Col. Neil Barnas, Commander of System Delta 831 at Space Systems Command, to discuss what makes American GPS the global gold standard, what it takes to keep a 31-satellite constellation running against active threats, and what the next generation of GPS will be able to do that the current one cannot.</p><p>In this conversation, Col. Barnas discusses:</p><p>- The three pillars that make American GPS the global gold standard, accuracy, transparency, and a legally guaranteed service level</p><p>- Why GPS is certified for human flight operations, and what that standard means in practice</p><p>- How the signal has been continuously broadcast since 1978, and why the satellites being launched today are designed to serve for 15 years or more</p><p>- What GPS Space Vehicle 10, the final GPS III satellite, means for the constellation and the warfighters waiting on it</p><p>- The GPS III-F upgrade: a 1,200-kilometer spot beam capable of up to 63 times the baseline M-code signal power, focused on exactly the area of the Earth where it's needed most</p><p>- How 63 international partners integrate GPS user equipment into their own aircraft, ground vehicles, and munitions</p><p>- Why agriculture is one of the most GPS-dependent industries on Earth, and what differential GPS does at the centimeter level</p><p>- How AI tools are now processing eleven hundred pages of technical documentation to accelerate acquisition decisions</p><p>- What the System Delta construct means for a mission area as globally consequential as position, navigation, and timing</p><p>GPS is often called a gold standard. This episode explains what that standard actually requires to maintain, and what happens to the joint force if it degrades.</p><p>Hosted by Bill Woolf</p><p>Produced by Ty Holliday</p><p>Guest:</p><p>Col. Neil Barnas, Commander, System Delta 831, Space Systems Command</p><p>Col. Barnas commands System Delta 831, the Space Systems Command unit responsible for developing, fielding, and modernizing the GPS constellation and the ground and user equipment systems that deliver positioning, navigation, and timing to the joint force and to civilian users worldwide. SYD 831 is paired with Mission Delta 31, which operates the GPS constellation daily.</p><p>Learn more about Space Systems Command: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/</a></p><p>Learn more about the U.S. Space Force: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.spaceforce.mil/</a></p><p>Join SFA: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ussfa.org/" target="_blank">https://ussfa.org/</a></p><p>Subscribe for more conversations on spacepower, national security, and the future of the space domain.</p>
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