Rocket Lab successfully lifts Capella Space satellites to orbit and marks its 40th Electron launch. North Korea’s second attempt to launch a spy satellite ends in failure. Australian startup HEO raises $8 million in Series A funding to develop its space imagery platform, and more.

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Our guests today are Giulia Salmaso and Salvatore Grignano from the Italian Trade Agency on their new accelerator program “Space It Up”. 

You can connect with Guilia, Salvatore and ITA on LinkedIn and learn more about Space It Up at Space.N2k.com/ITA.

Selected Reading

Rocket Lab Launches 40th Electron Mission, Successfully Flies Reused Engine- Business Wire

North Korea's space launch program and long-range missile projects- Reuters

Chandrayaan-3 on Moon: India to shift focus on Chandrayaan-4 with Japan- India Today

Blue Blocks School Celebrates Successful Inauguration of Innovative Space Lab

SES Signs Broadband Deal in the Philippines With We Are IT- Via Satellite

Airtree leads $12m Series A for space imagery enabler HEO Robotics- Business News Australia

Momentus to Provide Hosted Payload Services for FOSSA Systems- Business Wire

SAB Orbital Vehicle Could Work in Concert With Space Rider - European Spaceflight 

Space Foundation Partners With The Netherlands Ministry Of Foreign Affairs To Support And Promote Dutch Space Sector In U.S.‘

He’s made a huge sacrifice’: US astronauts praise Frank Rubio for staying a year in space 

A Lexicon for Outer Space Security- UNIDIR

European astronomers detect new component of radio halo in a nearby galaxy cluster 

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope- NASA

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