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Back to EpisodesSpace News for Saturday, February 28, 2026
Published 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:23) NASA revises plans for future Artemis missions, cancels upgrades to SLS
(00:48) Rocket Lab delays Neutron debut to late 2026
(01:38) NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis moon program: “We’ve got to get back to basics”
(02:03) NASA Overhauls Artemis Program: Scraps SLS Upgrades, Adds 2027 LEO Test Mission
(02:21) U.S. Space Force Pivots to Hemispheric Security with SPACEFOR-NORTH Activation
(03:10) Space Systems Command Awards $44.9M Systems Engineering Contract to LinQuest
(03:30) Amazon Leo and Vanu Partner to Extend Mobile Broadband Across Rural Africa
(04:27) Intuitive Machines Secures $175M Strategic Investment to Scale Space Infrastructure
(05:27) Harnessing the Sun to Extract Oxygen on the Moon
(06:10) NASA’s Home for Experimental Flight Advances Aeronautics Mission
(06:28) NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture
(07:14) Flight 12: Ship 39 rolls out to Masseys to begin testing
(08:04) NASA Pushes Crewed Moon Landing to Artemis IV
(08:47) Neutron’s First Launch Slips to Q4
(09:18) 'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission
(09:32) February finale: SpaceX wraps up month with three Starlink launches this week
(10:31) Apollo moon rocks may have finally solved an old lunar mystery
(11:09) The US Air Force's latest X-plane looks like a missile — that shoots other missiles
(11:35) NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts won't land on the moon after all. 'This is just not the right pathway forward.'
(12:24) Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:23) NASA revises plans for future Artemis missions, cancels upgrades to SLS
(00:48) Rocket Lab delays Neutron debut to late 2026
(01:38) NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis moon program: “We’ve got to get back to basics”
(02:03) NASA Overhauls Artemis Program: Scraps SLS Upgrades, Adds 2027 LEO Test Mission
(02:21) U.S. Space Force Pivots to Hemispheric Security with SPACEFOR-NORTH Activation
(03:10) Space Systems Command Awards $44.9M Systems Engineering Contract to LinQuest
(03:30) Amazon Leo and Vanu Partner to Extend Mobile Broadband Across Rural Africa
(04:27) Intuitive Machines Secures $175M Strategic Investment to Scale Space Infrastructure
(05:27) Harnessing the Sun to Extract Oxygen on the Moon
(06:10) NASA’s Home for Experimental Flight Advances Aeronautics Mission
(06:28) NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture
(07:14) Flight 12: Ship 39 rolls out to Masseys to begin testing
(08:04) NASA Pushes Crewed Moon Landing to Artemis IV
(08:47) Neutron’s First Launch Slips to Q4
(09:18) 'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission
(09:32) February finale: SpaceX wraps up month with three Starlink launches this week
(10:31) Apollo moon rocks may have finally solved an old lunar mystery
(11:09) The US Air Force's latest X-plane looks like a missile — that shoots other missiles
(11:35) NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts won't land on the moon after all. 'This is just not the right pathway forward.'
(12:24) Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity