Show Notes
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!<br>(00:10) Podcast Introduction<br>(00:23) Artemis 2 in good shape cruising towards the moon<br>(00:50) Italy’s Argotec plans to scale Florida satellite facility to meet rising US demand<br>(01:27) SpaceX and Amazon spar over satellite deployments<br>(02:22) Europe’s strategic autonomy in space will define its role in the ‘second space age’<br>(03:00) ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket launches its heaviest payload ever with fifth Amazon Leo mission<br>(03:29) The Downlink Deficit: The Pentagon’s Optical Mesh Network and the Terrestrial Bottleneck<br>(04:07) NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s CRS-24 Resupply Launch<br>(04:40) Meet NASA’s New Artemis II Science Officers<br>(05:21) Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom<br>(05:38) Hello, World<br>(06:05) White House Requests $18.8B FY27 Budget for NASA<br>(06:16) Insurance is Commercial Space Nuclear’s Biggest Headache<br>(06:56) Charts Defining the Space Industry in Q1 2026<br>(07:25) Artemis 2 astronauts are now headed to the moon. Why has it taken humanity so long to go back?<br>(08:15) It's official: NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission will break humanity's all-time distance record<br>(09:02) Astronauts on the ISS watched NASA's historic Artemis 2 launch from space<br>(09:52) 1st results from Blue Ghost lunar lander reveal how much we still don't know about the moon<br>(10:40) Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon<br>