The European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency plan to grow the workforce to 200 people at the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) by 2030. British paralympian John Mcfall has been cleared to go into space after a two-year feasibility study. Space-based energy generation company Star Catcher has closed its $12.25M seed round, and more.

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Our guest today is Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

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Selected Reading

Plans unveiled for stronger European Space Agency presence in UK and space skills training - GOV.UK

Disabled British astronaut John McFall cleared to travel into space

UK Space Agency awards ten technologies to purify water frozen in Moon’s soil - GOV.UK

Star Catcher Closes $12.25M Seed Round to Transform Space Operations With World's First Space-Based Energy Grid

KBR Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2024 Financial Results

RTX's Raytheon partners with AVIO to build a more resilient U.S. Defense Industrial Base for solid rocket motor production

Collins Aerospace relocating Singapore plant to new $250M manufacturing facility in Seletar Aerospace Park, Singapore

ISRO conducts flight experiment of Air Breathing Propulsion System

Morpheus Space Launches New "Reloaded" Factory in Dresden, Germany, significantly increasing availability of the GO-2 Electric Propulsion Systems

Blue Origin Announces Crew for New Shepard’s 26th Mission

SpiderOak and Axiom Space Demonstrate New Rust Enabled OrbitSecure Platform on International Space Station

SES Space & Defense Awarded U.S. Army’s SATCOM as a Managed Service Pilot Contract- Business Wire

Dr. Angel Smith Appointed as Executive Director of SmallSat Alliance

Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope

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