Planet Beyond

About Planet Beyond

Welcome to the Planet Beyond podcast. Brought to you by Fugro, the leading partner in uncovering geo-data from the greatest subsea depths right to outer space and hosted by Jon Baston-Pitt. Planet Beyond is about doing business better in our fast changing, and acutely delicate, yet exquisite, world. Together we will explore issues beyond the day-to-day challenges; listen to those who should be listened to; seek out what needs to be done and get aligned around the new tomorrow our children deserve and that we have a responsibility to deliver.

Publisher

Fugro

Category

business · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2021

Latest episode

25 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

97 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Sept 2025

   Episode 50: Mangroves, Drones, and Data

   In a few week’s time the 30th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Belém, Brazil. While the world is making progress on cutting the carbon emissions that cause climate change, there is much work still to be done. Even if the world were to meet the goals put in place ten years ago...

2. 

   28 Aug 2025

   Episode 49: Adding Autonomy to ROVs

   Artificial Intelligence is developing at a dizzying pace. One day soon, its proponents promise, it will revolutionise the way we work. The growth of AI could lead to the birth of ‘cobots’, robots able to collaborate safely with humans in shared spaces. But the development of machine autonomy and remote operations has much deeper roots....

3. 

   31 Jul 2025

   Episode 48: Remote Operations in Commercial Space

   Some time ago, in an office quite far away, Tim Crain, vice president of R&D at Intuitive Machines, joined Jon Baston-Pitt for an episode of Planet Beyond, alongside Fugro’s Dawn McIntosh and Sam Forbes. In that episode, first aired in November 2022, our guests discussed Intuitive Machine’s plans for the first commercial soft landing on...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

40

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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