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Back to EpisodesSpace News for Friday, April 24, 2026
Published 2 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
(00:22) The governance gap: Why orbital data centers need certification before they scale
(00:59) Astrobotic tests advanced rocket engine
(01:26) FCC throws out satellite spectrum challenges as D2D dealmaking heats up
(01:59) SpaceX wins $57 million U.S. military contract for satellite crosslink demo
(02:51) Jordan signs the Artemis Accords
(03:26) The Smartest Money in the Room Is Looking Up
(03:53) SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto, Leaf Space
(04:30) Blue Origin CEO Attributes BlueBird 7 Satellite Loss to Second-Stage Thrust Anomaly
(04:42) An Agricultural Mosaic in Taiwan
(05:30) Johnson Leaders Honored by National Space Club & Foundation
(06:18) NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-13 Assignments for Space Station Mission
(07:01) NASA Kennedy Prepares Facility for Roman Space Telescope Arrival
(07:16) Starship Progress at the Cape with Hoping to Launch this year
(07:30) Astra Targets Golden Dome With Small Rockets, Says CEO Chris Kemp
(08:14) Trump Taps Space Execs For Military Space Roles
(08:50) Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Center Cost Analysis
(09:26) Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula
(10:10) Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth
(11:00) Ted Cruz pushes back on NASA budget cuts: 'I don't want to wake up one day and look up at the moon and realize the Chinese have beat us there'
(11:36) What will happen when our sun starts dying? These 'stellar archaeologists' may have found a clue
(12:10) These 'interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?
(12:58) We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"
(13:35) US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons
(14:14) Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:22) The governance gap: Why orbital data centers need certification before they scale
(00:59) Astrobotic tests advanced rocket engine
(01:26) FCC throws out satellite spectrum challenges as D2D dealmaking heats up
(01:59) SpaceX wins $57 million U.S. military contract for satellite crosslink demo
(02:51) Jordan signs the Artemis Accords
(03:26) The Smartest Money in the Room Is Looking Up
(03:53) SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto, Leaf Space
(04:30) Blue Origin CEO Attributes BlueBird 7 Satellite Loss to Second-Stage Thrust Anomaly
(04:42) An Agricultural Mosaic in Taiwan
(05:30) Johnson Leaders Honored by National Space Club & Foundation
(06:18) NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-13 Assignments for Space Station Mission
(07:01) NASA Kennedy Prepares Facility for Roman Space Telescope Arrival
(07:16) Starship Progress at the Cape with Hoping to Launch this year
(07:30) Astra Targets Golden Dome With Small Rockets, Says CEO Chris Kemp
(08:14) Trump Taps Space Execs For Military Space Roles
(08:50) Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Center Cost Analysis
(09:26) Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula
(10:10) Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth
(11:00) Ted Cruz pushes back on NASA budget cuts: 'I don't want to wake up one day and look up at the moon and realize the Chinese have beat us there'
(11:36) What will happen when our sun starts dying? These 'stellar archaeologists' may have found a clue
(12:10) These 'interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?
(12:58) We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"
(13:35) US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons
(14:14) Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch