The Gist: Space News

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:24) Pentagon advisory panel urges integration of commercial space tech for military use (00:57) Space industry considers implications of Harris as presidential candidate (01:23) Claire Leon, U.S. Space Force Space Systems Integration Office director (01:51) Connecting the Dots: Avoid...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) ASCEND panel cites AI challenges and promise (00:54) CACI secures $450 million contract to support U.S. Space Command’s navigation warfare center (01:29) Honoring the Best in Space: 2024 SpaceNews Icon Awards Nominations Open (01:57) Satellite issues deliver mixed bag for Yahsat...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) GHGSat gains NASA approval for methane-emissions data (00:54) Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return (01:24) SES wins $46 million U.S. Air Force contract for satellite services (01:56) Land of the rising space startups (02:21) NASA proceeding with August launch o...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) NISAR launch slips to 2025 (00:51) Announcing the launch of Starris: Optimax Space Systems, lifting precision optical payloads from idea to orbit in one year (01:23) British financial advisor Citicourt & Co plots space venture capital fund (01:53) Month: (02:25) GO! ULA for Tuesd...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) ULA prepares for final military launch of Atlas 5 rocket (00:53) SpaceX to move Dragon splashdowns back to West Coast (01:18) SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base (01:41) ULA Update: Go! Atlas V USSF-51 mission on Tuesday – Sa...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Falcon 9 returns to flight with Starlink launch (00:50) SpaceX completes 300th booster reflight during first of planned back-to-back Falcon 9 launches (01:22) Month: (01:46) ULA prepares for final Atlas 5 launch supporting a national security payload (02:19) SpaceX is ‘back in th...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) SpaceNews Welcomes Clara Swan as Sales and Business Development Manager (00:56) More thruster tests for Starliner before return (01:25) SpaceX launches Falcon 9 return to flight mission from the Kennedy Space Center (01:48) As it happened: NASA holds briefings on Crew 9 mission a...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Falcon 9 cleared to resume launches (00:53) Shannon Pallone, United States Space Force – Leading Women in Space (01:21) New report examines Space Force agency’s ambitious satellite network program (01:53) Astranis fully funds Omega with $200 million fundraise (02:21) Make-or-brea...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Sierra Space conducts second full-scale burst test of inflatable module (00:57) Rocket engine startup Ursa Major adds 3D printing lab in Ohio (01:27) New Frontier Aerospace tests rocket engine for point-to-point travel (02:00) Raytheon partners with Italy’s Avio to boost solid ro...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) SaxaVord prepares for first orbital launch (00:52) Review concludes proposed NASA budget cuts would end Chandra (01:22) Orbital Insight wins NGA contract for maritime surveillance in Indo-Pacific region (01:55) Europe sees Ariane 6 launch as an end to its “launcher crisis” (02:24...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) ABL loses rocket after static-fire test (00:56) NASA awards launch services contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 mission – SatNews (01:29) Astra closes the firm’s take-private transaction – SatNews (01:59) Aldoria continues to track the Russian Luch-2 satellite as it approaches telecom sat...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Senate appropriators say spending bill includes NASA increase (00:56) Another BOEING UPDATE: Starliner thruster ground testing complete, data reviews underway – SatNews (01:26) L3Harris + Epirus collaborate to maximize tactical radio efficiency – SatNews (01:58) Maxar Intelligenc...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) South Korea’s new space agency outlines plans (00:54) UPDATE Rocket Lab delays launch of ‘A Sky Full Of SARs’ per Capella’s request – SatNews (01:32) Moon Daily: LRO Mini-RF data reveals extensive cave network beneath lunar surface – SatNews (02:10) Astrobotic’s LunaGrid’s Vertic...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) ESA supports work on Apophis mission (00:51) Maxar Intelligence unveils first images from next-generation WorldView Legion satellites (01:23) Amazon gears up for NASA satellite data relay demonstration (01:54) NASA signs U.S., Saudi Arabia agreement for civil aeronautics, space c...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:24) Astra completes deal to go private (00:52) Chiara Manfletti, CEO Neuraspace – Leading Women in Space (01:20) NASA cancels VIPER lunar rover (01:44) U.S. Space Command chief expresses confidence in Falcon 9’s prompt return to flight (02:20) U.S. Space Force chief emphasizes intern...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Firefly CEO leaves company (00:55) LeoLabs to support UK’s Project Tyche (01:26) Rosotics unveils 3D printer with space applications (01:55) GPS startup bets on advanced signal to counter jamming threats (02:23) GOP platform lays out aggressive space agenda to counter China (02:5...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Second SLS core stage ready to ship to Florida (00:54) PLD Space launches SPARK Programme, offering free access to first two MIURA 5 flights to promote space innovation (01:30) MIURA 5 SPARK Programme, presented by PLD Space, offering free access to first two MIURA 5 flights to p...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) China reschedules planetary defense mission for 2027 launch (00:54) U.S. nuclear command satellites need hardening against attacks, report warns (01:24) NASA’s CAPSTONE is testing “Autopilot” software suite for cislunar operations (01:56) Rocket Lab’s launch window for the next C...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:24) ESCAPADE on schedule for launch this fall (00:49) Boeing account of NASA’s astronauts ‘extended stay’, “I have a real good feeling in my heart that this spacecraft will bring us home no problem” – SatNews (01:17) Report: “Outer Space Cyberattacks: Generating Novel Scenarios to Av...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) Starlink satellites lost on Falcon 9 upper stage failure (00:50) Tina Ghataore, Group CSRO and CEO North America, Aerospacelab – Leading Women in Space (01:20) China’s Long March 6A rocket appears to have an orbital debris problem (01:50) General Atomics to build second Space For...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:24) Falcon 9 suffers upper stage engine failure (00:49) Lunar spacecraft receive dozens of collision warnings (01:15) Microsoft leads $40 million funding for Starlink networking startup (01:46) Starliner return eyed for end of July as tests continue (02:14) AEI hunting for more space...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) House introduces NASA reauthorization act (00:52) Japanese venture seeks to develop commercial space station module (01:15) Astroscale spacecraft continues inspection of upper stage (01:42) Space Force preparing for the age of proliferated low Earth orbit satellite networks (02:1...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:25) House spending bill directs NASA to study asteroid and orbital debris missions (00:59) SpaceX launches Turkey’s first home-grown communications satellite (01:25) JAXA to support work on commercial space station technologies (01:53) Military-to-civilian space traffic transition ne...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:24) ESA’s Ariane 6 set to do the heavy lifting for Arianespace July 9 – SatNews (00:56) Boeing assures “we have the luxury of time” as Starliner stuck with NASA’s astronauts at ISS for one month + Boeing’s $8.3 Billion purchase of Spirit AeroSystems – SatNews (01:28) Airbus awarded B...

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:24) Low-intensity explosion caused Russian satellite to spew debris (00:53) SpaceX has two Monday launches from each coast first is Türksat 6A communications satellite, then Starlink smallsats – SatNews (01:25) EUSPA funding scheme for integration of Galileo HAS into maritime receive...