Show Notes
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!<br>(00:10) Podcast Introduction<br>(00:23) Officina Stellare wins $2 million contract for lasercom ground station in Spain<br>(01:07) Rocket Lab launches eighth Synspective radar imaging satellite<br>(02:03) Another GPS launch shifts from ULA to SpaceX as Vulcan investigation continues<br>(02:50) OHB Sweden wins €248 million contract to build EPS-Sterna constellation<br>(03:12) Holistic space observation: the shift from SSA to SDA<br>(03:48) SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB<br>(04:28) The Pentagon’s SmallSats Have An Amnesia Problem<br>(05:00) Eutelsat Group Leadership and 2026 Strategic Roadmap<br>(05:28) NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight<br>(06:10) Hangar One Restoration Project<br>(06:34) NASA Selects University Finalists for Technology Concepts Competition<br>(07:01) How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries<br>(07:40) Smiles and Spacesuits<br>(08:15) SLS enters pad flow ahead of historic Artemis II mission<br>(08:35) Kayhan Space Launches Satcat Terminal<br>(09:22) Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn<br>(10:07) Hubble Space Telescope accidentally witnesses comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking apart<br>(10:39) Rocket Lab scores $190 million launch deal to test hypersonic tech for US military<br>(11:25) Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to launch pad | Space photo of the day for March 20, 2026<br>(11:52) Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars<br>(12:35) NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes<br>