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Back to EpisodesSpace News for Tuesday, August 04, 2026
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In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:22) Rocketdyne reemerges as standalone space company
(00:49) Kreios Space to fly VLEO demonstration in NanoAvionics bus
(01:29) NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions
(01:41) Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink
(02:29) Xona secures spectrum approval for satellite navigation network
(03:20) Planet Labs Secures Seven-Figure Agricultural Data Contract with Scottish Government
(03:46) FCC Authorizes Xona Space Systems for Full Commercial Pulsar LEO Constellation Deployment
(04:10) Nilesat Secures Tier 4 WTA Certification for Cairo Teleport Infrastructure
(04:46) KMM Precision Measuring Commercializes High-Precision Displacement Sensors for Extreme Aerospace Environments
(05:22) Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas
(06:08) Guinea-Bissau Tidal Waters
(06:48) NASA Delivers Navigation System for Commercial Lunar Relay
(07:26) Ike Theriot Helps Prepare Astronauts to Work on the Moon
(08:10) Launch Preview: Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, and Chinese missions fill launch manifest
(08:23) True Anomaly Chases an Evading Target
(09:07) A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon this week. Why is it on a collision course?
(09:45) 3 moons of Neptune may be remnants of ice worlds shattered in a catastrophic crash
(10:35) The 1st 'three-headed' asteroid | Space photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
(11:15) On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:22) Rocketdyne reemerges as standalone space company
(00:49) Kreios Space to fly VLEO demonstration in NanoAvionics bus
(01:29) NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions
(01:41) Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink
(02:29) Xona secures spectrum approval for satellite navigation network
(03:20) Planet Labs Secures Seven-Figure Agricultural Data Contract with Scottish Government
(03:46) FCC Authorizes Xona Space Systems for Full Commercial Pulsar LEO Constellation Deployment
(04:10) Nilesat Secures Tier 4 WTA Certification for Cairo Teleport Infrastructure
(04:46) KMM Precision Measuring Commercializes High-Precision Displacement Sensors for Extreme Aerospace Environments
(05:22) Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas
(06:08) Guinea-Bissau Tidal Waters
(06:48) NASA Delivers Navigation System for Commercial Lunar Relay
(07:26) Ike Theriot Helps Prepare Astronauts to Work on the Moon
(08:10) Launch Preview: Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, and Chinese missions fill launch manifest
(08:23) True Anomaly Chases an Evading Target
(09:07) A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon this week. Why is it on a collision course?
(09:45) 3 moons of Neptune may be remnants of ice worlds shattered in a catastrophic crash
(10:35) The 1st 'three-headed' asteroid | Space photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
(11:15) On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury