The Gist: Space News

Space News for Tuesday, September 12, 2023


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In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:25) Overseas firms on a journey to establish themselves as U.S. entities
(00:54) Comtech plans to establish networks “in a matter of hours”
(01:22) Air Force satisfied with SpaceX services, not concerned about its growing dominance
(01:51) Legacy satellite operators take stock of Starlink-fueled transformation
(02:17) Ball wins $489.6 million contract to deliver next-generation weather satellite sounder
(02:50) Direct-to-device: a $100-billion question
(03:19) Thaicom picks Airbus to build Eutelsat-backed GEO satellite for Asia
(03:45) NASA Remembers September 11 from space – SatNews
(04:15) Telesat + SpaceX sign an MLA for 14 advanced Lightspeed smallsats – SatNews
(04:50) Rocket Lab’s launch window for the next Capella Space mission announced – SatNews
(05:17) Virgin Galactic completes their fourth successful spaceflight in four months – SatNews
(05:41) NASA selects Ball Aerospace to develop NOAA’s GeoXO sounder instrument – SatNews
(06:07) New Chairman at ALL.SPACE – SatNews
(06:40) GEOST to build resiliency payload for Northrop Grumman Tracking Layer satellites – SatNews
(07:05) NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search
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The Gist: Space NewsBy Dr. Mason Nixon