India shares an ambitious 2047 roadmap for lunar missions and moon tourism, the strategic Dish-EchoStar merger gets greenlit by the FCC, Rocket Lab lands a launch for South Korea's NeonSat-1, ESA ventures into developing a high-thrust rocket engine. And we sat down with Somaya Aswadi, a member of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team, to hear her story.

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T-Minus Guest

Our guest today is Somaya Aswadi. 

Somaya is a member of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team and a student at Stony Brook University. The Afghan Girls Robotics Team is the subject of the documentary Afghan Dreamers about their formation as an international competitive robotics team in defiance of the Taliban’s religious edicts against education for girls.

Selected Reading

Exclusive: India's first space station unit can be up in just 5 years; 2047 roadmap has multiple lunar missions, Moon tourism on cards- MSN 

FCC nod puts Dish-EchoStar merger on home stretch- SpaceNews

Rocket Lab Signs Deal to Launch South Korean Satellite- Business Wire

Investing in Space: Why Amazon bought rocket launches from rival SpaceX- CNBC

NOAA's older Earth-watching satellites get new 'extended life'- Space

ESA Wants to Develop a "Very High Thrust" Rocket Engine- European Spaceflight 

Penn awarded $2 million grant from NASA to fund research on lunar robots- The Daily Pennsylvanian      

Toughest material ever is an alloy of chromium, cobalt and nickel- New Scientist 

Space Development Agency, Army cooperating on alternates to GPS sat signals- Breaking Defense 

When Waters Rise, Satellites Now Lag- IEEE Spectrum 

Nasa hands over control as new era of moon missions readies for lift-off- The Guardian

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