Rocket Lab launches its fifth mission of the year called "Beginning of the Swarm", deploying two satellites to two different orbits. SpaceX’s Starlink 6-53 mission deploys another 23 satellites and completes the 300th booster landing. JAXA has been communicating with the SLIM probe after it survives a third lunar night, and more.

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Our guest today is Rachana Mamidi, Space Engineer and Podcaster.

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Selected Reading

Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Satellites ~500km Apart to Separate Orbits For KAIST and NASA

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1782898782885339562

NASA’s CloudSat Ends Mission Peering Into the Heart of Clouds

Japan Moon probe survives 3rd lunar night

Cause for concern: US watching China’s ‘breathtakingly fast’ space development ‘very, very closely’, top commander says- South China Morning Post

USSPACECOM visit cements commitment to bolstering the Alliance in Korea- Pacific Air Forces 

Vote on Draft Resolution on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Outer Space : What's In Blue

NASA Nurtures Promising Tech Ideas from Small Businesses

NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going green enough?

National Defence Strategy: a missed opportunity for space- The Strategist

Hubble Has Accidentally Discovered Over a Thousand Asteroids - Universe Today

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