Terran Orbital closed out 2023 with $70 million dollars in cash, giving them what their CEO Marc Bell says is a "solid financial foundation" for their objectives in the coming year.  SpaceX begins 2024 by launching the first six satellites with direct-to-cell capabilities. AIAA’s CEO Dan Dumbacher will be stepping down from his role in September 2024, and more.

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Our guest today is Dr. Hisham Ali, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Selected Reading

Terran Orbital Reports an Excess of $70 Million Year-End Cash Balance- Business Wire

AST SpaceMobile Provides Interim Update on Fundraising- Business Wire

SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 launch of 2024 features first 6 direct-to-cell Starlink satellites – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX back with 1st Space Coast launch of the year – Orlando Sentinel

Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations cell receives new name - Joint Task Force-Space Defense

MBRYONICS Selected As Optical Terminal Provider For DARPA’s Space-BACN Program

LEAP-TD Mission Success

Rewind 2023: India has 204 space startups, sector received $123mn investments - Science News 

Exclusive: SynMax Raises $13M - Payload 

Early-stage hard tech firm Countdown Capital shutting down - TechCrunch 

AIAA Announces Plans for CEO Transition

 'There has never been such big hype': Why space tech is booming thanks to AI

What’s The Perfect Meal For Long-Term Space Travelers? A Vegetarian Salad, Apparently- IFLScience

A commander’s lament on the loss of a historic SpaceX rocket- Ars Technica 

This NASA crew has survived Mars for six months — sort of

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