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EOS Space Systems warns Chinese surveillance satellites were and are keeping a keen eye on two military exercises held in Australia. The Japanese Coast Guard says that North Korea is planning a space launch as early as Thursday. The head of Russia’s Space Agency says that the Luna 25 crash was caused after the spacecraft’s engines failed to shut down correctly, and more.

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Our guests today are Trudy Kortes, Director of NASA STMD Technology Demonstrations, and Greg Richardson, Director of COSMIC, about the NASA-created consortium for space mobility and ISAM capabilities.

You can connect with Trudy on LinkedIn and find out more about COSMIC on their website.

Selected Reading

China’s Constant Spying On Australian Drills From Space A Sign Of Shifting Orbital Balance- The Drive

World's first high-orbit synthetic aperture radar satellite enters operational orbit- CGTN

New 'AI-brained' Chinese satellite has just been launched- Interesting Engineering 

North Korea's space launch program and long-range missile projects- Reuters

HKUST Launches Hong Kong's First Higher Ed Satellite- Pr Newswire

Russian space agency chief blames decades of inactivity for Luna-25 lander’s crash on the moon- AP

Hughes Awarded Space Force IDIQ Contract for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Services- PR Newswire

Space Development Agency taps Mynaric for optical ground station project- Mynaric

Umbra Selected by AFWERX for SBIR Phase II Contract- PR Newswire

Ecuador Minister and CNT Inaugurate O3b mPOWER Terminals in the Galapagos- Via Satellite

Quant Data & Analytics to Leverage Satellogic Imagery in Saudi Arabia - Via Satellite

CSA Awards $1.03 Million for Industry-Academia Collaborative Research including for Quantum Technology - SpaceQ 

Russia's Moon Crash 'Speaks Volumes': A Storied Space Program Falls Short. Again.- RFE

Despite the Luna-25 failure, Russia is not a declining space power 

The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader | Ars Technica 

The New Race to Reach the Moon—and Find Water - WSJ 

We need to get our space junk problem under control- The Washington Post

Why Your NASA T-Shirt Is Behind the Curve- Newsweek

LA Company Squid3 Space Develops Camouflage for Satellites - Parabolic Arc 

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