Space News for Friday, April 11, 2025

11/04/2025 6 min

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Northrop Grumman achieves 1st undocking between 2 commercial spacecraft in GEO – SatNews(00:54) ULA plans Amazon Project Kuiper’s launch on Monday – SatNews(01:24) Vast announces 3 additional payload partners for Haven-1 Lab + signs leverage agreement with ISS National Laboratory – SatNews(02:04) Forrester’s Digest: France to bail out Eutelsat? – SatNews(02:28) SpaceX delays Starlink Group 11-17 launch of 21 smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell until Friday – SatNews(03:18) Intelsat to line fit factory install multi-orbit service on Embraer E2 – SatNews(03:52) Documentary Series: JPL and the Space Age(04:22) Caltech/JPL Privacy Policies and Important Notices(04:51) NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Studies Trove of Rocks on Crater Rim(05:13) NASA Webb’s Autopsy of Planet Swallowed by Star Yields Surprise(05:44) ULA scrubs first operational Amazon Kuiper mission