Episode Details
Back to EpisodesSpace News for Thursday, August 20, 2026
Published 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Description
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:23) Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1 billion
(01:02) Eartheye Space forges strategic partnership with IN2
(01:24) Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost
(02:03) LandSpace becomes first commercial Chinese company to land an orbital-class booster
(02:47) Elve Achieves TRL-8 Space Qualification for 100 W mmWave Space TWTA Platform
(03:27) Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Phil Carrai, Kratos
(03:41) Moog Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity with High Delta-V Configuration for Agile Orbital Missions
(04:18) NASA TechLeap Prize: Orbital Clarity Challenge
(04:46) NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
(05:12) Ancient Milky Way Merger
(05:44) Stoke Space conducts second stage fit checks, completes first stage engines ahead of Nova debut
(06:39) White House Publishes S&T Strategy for National Security
(07:08) Zeno Power Books its First Nuclear Mission to the Moon
(07:35) Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit today
(07:52) Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
(08:35) Private mission to save NASA's Swift space telescope fails
(09:19) Scientists create 'laundry gun' for astronauts to clean their clothes by shooting out plasma
(09:39) Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously feeding supermassive black hole
(10:13) Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:23) Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1 billion
(01:02) Eartheye Space forges strategic partnership with IN2
(01:24) Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost
(02:03) LandSpace becomes first commercial Chinese company to land an orbital-class booster
(02:47) Elve Achieves TRL-8 Space Qualification for 100 W mmWave Space TWTA Platform
(03:27) Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Phil Carrai, Kratos
(03:41) Moog Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity with High Delta-V Configuration for Agile Orbital Missions
(04:18) NASA TechLeap Prize: Orbital Clarity Challenge
(04:46) NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
(05:12) Ancient Milky Way Merger
(05:44) Stoke Space conducts second stage fit checks, completes first stage engines ahead of Nova debut
(06:39) White House Publishes S&T Strategy for National Security
(07:08) Zeno Power Books its First Nuclear Mission to the Moon
(07:35) Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit today
(07:52) Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
(08:35) Private mission to save NASA's Swift space telescope fails
(09:19) Scientists create 'laundry gun' for astronauts to clean their clothes by shooting out plasma
(09:39) Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously feeding supermassive black hole
(10:13) Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole