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[Space Bites] Spying on Spy Satellites // Official NASA Budget Cuts // Dragonfly Milestone

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The official NASA cuts are here. Several missions reach big milestones. The Solar Gravitational Lens will be challenging to use, and in our special bonus version on Patreon, [Space Bites+] an additional story about New Horizons scanning the clouds of hydrogen around the Solar System.

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  • 00:00 Intro
  • 00:19 NASA budget cuts are official
    • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-white-house-releases-its-2026-budget-request-for-nasa-cuts-to-sls-gateway-and-orion
    • 03:31 Milestones for Dragonfly and Roman
      • https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2025/04/24/nasas-dragonfly-passes-critical-design-review/
      • https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/key-portion-of-nasas-roman-space-telescope-clears-thermal-vacuum-test/
      • 05:22 Satellite occultations
        • https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03474
        • 06:34 Complications with SGL
          • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/using-the-solar-gravitational-lens-will-be-extremely-difficult
          • 09:27 Vote results
          • 10:09 Hakuto-R 2 arrives at Moon orbit
            • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/ispaces-resilience-enters-lunar-orbit-itll-try-to-land-in-early-june
            • 11:32 Rogue binary planets
              • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/free-floating-binary-planets-cant-last-long
              • 13:09 Strange object on the edge of the Milky Way
                • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/its-either-the-milky-ways-farthest-known-star-cluster-or-the-smallest-known-galaxy
                • 14:30 Guide to Space
                • 15:50 Space Bites+
                • 16:09 Importance of keeping up space missions

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