In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top

space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:23) Virgin Galactic conducts final VSS Unity commercial suborbital spaceflight
(00:55) SpaceX and the categorical imperative to achieve low launch cost
(01:34) SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base
(02:09) SpaceX’s Super Hat Trick with Thursday’s Starship mission, Friday’s Starlink satellites, and Saturday’s Starlink satellites launch including six Direct to Cell – SatNews
(02:46) The first 5 Kinéis smallsats to be launched to orbit via Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher – SatNews
(03:23) SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test ‘super heavy’ lands ‘softly’ … next Moon then Mars – SatNews
(04:01) Ubotica awarded European Defence Fund grant for space defence – SatNews
(04:26) Equatorial Launch Australia’s Head of Arnhem Space Centre Site Operations is ex-Royal Australian Air Force Officer – SatNews
(04:56) Boeing and Northrop Grumman competing for Space Force Program – SatNews
(05:30) ST Engineering iDirect next generation hub selected for Indonesia’s 1st multifunction satellite – SatNews