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K2 space has been awarded a $60m STRATFI contract by the US Space Force for a new mission, code-named Gravitas, that'll take place no earlier than February 2026. Blue Origin held a wet rehearsal for its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral. NASA has announced that it is delaying the SpaceX Crew-10 launch until no earlier than March, and more.

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K2 Space Awarded $60M STRATFI Contract for Groundbreaking Proliferated MEO Mission

New US Space Force jammers aim to disrupt China’s SATCOM signals

Blue Origin New Glenn launch date inches closer as rocket sees testing at Cape Canaveral

Astronauts who flew to space aboard Starliner face additional delay- CNN

Exclusive: Power failed at SpaceX mission control before September spacewalk by NASA nominee- Reuters

China's commercial rocket sends new batch of satellites into orbit - CGTN

NASA Partners with US Patent and Trademark Office to Advance Technology Transfer

India's first analog space mission: Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?

A Year of Space-Based Innovation: ISS National Lab Sponsored More Than 100 Payloads in 2024, Advancing R&D in Low Earth Orbit

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SpaceX to launch commercial lunar missions in mid- January for Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, and Japan’s ispace HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2. Firefly Aerospace has been awarded nearly $179.6 million by NASA to deliver and operate six NASA instruments in the Gruithuisen Domes on the Moon’s near side in 2028. Vast has contracted SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch up to two Dragon missions to the International Space Station in support of Vast’s future bid for NASA’s private astronaut missions (PAM), and more. 

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Our guests today are Felix Hattwig  and  Simi Wespi from ETH Zurich's Rocket Team talking about the NICOLLIER rocket and testing the PERSEUS Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE).  

You can find out more about the Aris Program on the team’s website.

ispace Announces SMBC x HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Venture Moon Mission Milestones & Ventures

Firefly Awarded $179 Million NASA Contract for Moon Delivery to Gruithuisen Domes

New Commercial Artemis Moon Rovers Undergo Testing at NASA

Vast Announces Deal with SpaceX to Launch Two Human Spaceflight Missions to the International Space Station

Shenzhou-19 crew completes China's longest spacewalk - CGTN

Maxar Awarded $35M in New Tasking Contracts by Two Government Customers in Asia-Pacific Region- Business Wire

ESA Report on the Space Economy 2024

Contracts For Dec. 18, 2024 

Ursa Major and RTX’s Raytheon Conduct Successful Flight Test

Exolaunch Completes Successful Integration of 35 Customer Satellites, Set for Transporter-12 Mission with SpaceX

Viasat Completes Sale of Energy Services Systems Integration Business

ASTRA 1P Starts Delivering Content Across Europe- Business Wire

ESA - Cosmic jingles: listen to Euclid’s image of M78 

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Axiom Space has announced that it will have its space station ready two years ahead of schedule. Eutelsat has selected Airbus Defence and Space to build the extension of its OneWeb low Earth orbit constellation. SES successfully launched its latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center last night, and more.

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Our guest today is Ryan Brown, Executive Director of SpaceCom.

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Axiom Space Accelerates Axiom Station Assembly

Eutelsat Selects Airbus Defence and Space to Build OneWeb low Earth Orbit Constellation Extension- Business Wire

SES’s Seventh and Eighth O3b mPOWER Satellites Successfully Launched, Bolstering MEO Constellation- Business Wire

ICEYE Closes $65m Extension To Existing Growth Funding Round For A Total Of $158m Raised In 2024

Sidus Space Announces $14 Million Private Placement- Business Wire

Tokyo startup's second satellite launch attempt ends in failure - The Japan Times 

Viasat Selected by Defense Innovation Unit to Deliver Resilient Network Orchestration Software for Replicator Autonomous Systems

Momentus to Deploy Defense Department and Commercial Payloads on Rideshare Mission with SpaceX in 2026- Business Wire

ISS National Lab-Sponsored Projects on Cancer, Neurodegenerative Conditions, and More Return From Space Station

Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules - The New York Times

Crayola, Space4All, Blue Origin's Club for the Future, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Announce Partnership to Champion the Importance of Creativity in Space

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NASA has released its long-term goals for sustaining human presence in low earth orbit (LEO) called NASA's Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy. Lockheed Martin’s Global Positioning System III space vehicle (GPS III SV07) launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for the RRT-1 mission, the first “Rapid Response Trailblazer”. Thailand signs the Artemis Accords, and more.

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Our guests today are Aerospace Corporation’s Uma Bruegman, Executive Director, Space Safety Institute (SSI) and Brian Weeden from the Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS).

You can read the Aerospace Corporation’s newly published Space Safety Compendium at Aerospace.org.

NASA Finalizes Strategy for Sustaining Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit

NASA Sees Progress on Starlab Commercial Space Station Development

Seventh Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite Launches, Supporting Next-Gen Constellation Modernization and Rapid Launch Capability

NASA Welcomes Thailand as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

Lunar Outpost Inc Co-Leads Australia’s First Lunar Rover Program

China successfully launches new group of SAR satellites - CGTN

China launches internet satellite constellation - CGTN

Frontgrade Gaisler Leads European Initiative for Ultra Deep Sub-Micron Semiconductor Technology for Space Applications- Business Wire

Rocket Lab Delivers Second Spacecraft, Completes Third for Varda Space Industries- Business Wire

Artemis II Core Stage Moves to High Bay 2 - NASA

NASA Names New Leader of STEM Engagement

T-Mobile Opens Registration for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellite Service Beta Launch- Business Wire

Hamilton completes astronaut flight training for potential space flight - F1technical.net

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The SpaceRISE consortium has signed an agreement with the European Commission and the European Space Agency to design, deliver and operate the Infrastructure for the Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²) project. An unidentified company plans to spend $1.8 billion in capital improvements at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX has sent a letter to officials in Texas to request that Starbase be incorporated as a city, and more.

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Our guest today is the Cyberwire Daily’s host Dave Bittner. 

IRIS2 lifts off as European Commission and SpaceRISE sign contract in Brussels- Business Wire

Unidentified space company planning $1.8 billion in launch infrastructure, 600 jobs at Cape

Elon Musk wants to turn SpaceX's Starbase site into a Texas city - AP News

Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 3 Program Integration (T3PI) Solicitation

FAA takes step to streamline launch licensing process - SpaceNews

Millennium Space Systems Names Tony Gingiss as CEO

Esper and Loft team up to pioneer resource monitoring with next-generation hyperspectral imagery

China to launch Long March-8 rocket from its 1st commercial spaceport - CGTN

NASA Awards Multi-Center Administrative Support Services Contract

'We are preparing to make history': NASA's Parker Solar Probe gears up for epic sun flyby on Christmas Eve- Space

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You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws.

Our guests today are Araz Feyzi, Co-founder and CTO at Kayhan Space and Tim Sills, Lead Security Solutions Architect at AWS for Aerospace and Satellite.

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NASA has released the Mars Future Plan: “Expanding the Horizons of Mars Science, a plan for a sustainable science program at Mars”. The US Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) cleared the House this week and is heading to the Senate. Brazil has passed a bill to establish a state-owned company to provide services for rocket launches, and more.

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The Mars Future Plan - NASA Science

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reaches Top of Jezero Crater Rim

House Passes Final FY2025 NDAA – SpacePolicyOnline.com

Brazilian Space Industry Gets Boost in Win for Embattled Lula - Bloomberg

India practices pulling its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule out of the sea (photos)- Space

Virgin Galactic Partners with Italy’s Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile to Conduct Spaceport Feasibility Study- Business Wire

Stoke Space hotfires rocket engine on new vertical test stand — a 'very big deal' for Washington startup – GeekWire

Colorado Aerospace Industry Continues to Grow: Polis Administration Announces Astro Digital Expansion in Colorado

NASA’s Juno Mission Uncovers Heart of Jovian Moon’s Volcanic Rage

NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

The Geminids meteor shower peaks this week. Here's what to expect

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Fleet Space of Australia has closed a $150 million Australian dollar Series D funding round to advance its ExoSphere exploration platform. Lumen Orbit has raised $11 million in their latest seed round. Panama and Austria have become the 49th and 50th nations to commit to the Artemis Accords, and more.

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Our guest today is Araz Feyzi, Co-founder and CTO at Kayhan Space. 

You can connect with Araz on LinkedIn, and learn more about Kayhan Space on their website.

Fleet Space Closes A$150M Series D with A$800M+ Valuation

200 VCs wanted to get into Lumen Orbit's $11M seed round- TechCrunch

Artemis Accords Reach 50 Signatories as NASA Welcomes Panama, Austria

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Achieves Historic 15-Meter Approach to Space Debris

Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World

Blue Origin Licenses Nimbus Power Systems’ Fuel Cell Technology for Development of Space Power Systems- Business Wire

MDA Space And Indspire Launch New Indigenous Student Scholarship Program

Human Activities Might Create Temporary Atmospheres on the Moon - Eos

Jared Isaacman on U.S. space competitiveness: ‘We can't be second’ - SpaceNews

Innovative AstroRad Vest Poised to Safeguard Astronauts from Space Radiation

Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals From Voyager 1- Hackaday

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Bloomberg shares an exclusive look at an insider share transaction over at SpaceX, with the company and its investors buying 1.25 billion of insider shares, making the company worth roughly $350 billion. Maxar Intelligence and Satellogic are teaming up to support US National Security missions. South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung has invested $10 million in Intuitive Machines, and more.

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Our guest today is AJ Gemer, Co-founder and CTO at Lunar Outpost.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Share Sale Values Company at About $350 Billion - Bloomberg

Ship 33 prepares for engine testing, Booster 14 Completes Static Fire - NASASpaceFlight.com

Maxar Intelligence and Satellogic Announce Tasking Partnership to Support National Security Missions- Business Wire

Boryung Invests USD 10 Million in Intuitive Machines to Collaborate on Lunar Healthcare Infrastructure

ESA - Sentinel-1C captures first radar images

Message Received: Viasat Continues Direct-to-Device Showcase with First Demonstration in United Arab Emirates

Guerrilla RF Sees 125% Year-Over-Year Growth Driven by Direct-to-Cellular Satellite Applications- Business Wire

China conducts static firing test of XZY-1 verification rocket - CGTN

China set to launch its new Long March-8A rocket in January 2025 - CGTN

Astranis Targets December Launch for Dedicated Falcon 9 Mission - Via Satellite

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Viasat has been awarded a five-year, sole-source Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract through the US General Services Administration (GSA) with a $568 million ceiling. Redwire has been awarded a $45 million plus five-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the design, development, and testing of prototype software and hardware for mission critical technologies. Aalyria has been selected by the US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to enhance connectivity for defense applications, and more.

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Our guest today is Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

You can connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn and read the paper he co-authored on launch and reentry air pollutants on Nature.com.

Viasat Awarded up to $568 Million IDIQ Contract from General Services Administration to Support C5ISR Capabilities for U.S. Defense Forces

Redwire Awarded $45 Million Contract from Air Force Research Laboratory to Advance Enhanced Space-Based Capabilities for the Warfighter- Business Wire

Aalyria selected by Defense Innovation Unit to enhance swarm connectivity for defense applications- Business Wire

NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next Generation Space Weather Program

Lockheed Martin’s Newest Technology Demo for Space Connectivity Is Ready for Launch

Mission Success for Rocket Lab’s Latest Suborbital Hypersonic Launch

Planet Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025- Business Wire

Sierra Space Advances Space Domain Awareness with NVIDIA

ispace and Magna Petra Agree to Future Resources Exploration on the Moon’s Surface

ION-X raises €13 million to scale up to industrial production

NASA Invites Media to Panama, Austria Artemis Accords Signings

NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets

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