Space News for Thursday, August 11, 2022

11/08/2022 10 min

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy! (0:00) Podcast Introduction(00:17) Astro Digital Q&A: Taking smallsats to the mainstream(00:43) Download your Wednesday ‘News from the 2022 Small Satellite show’ digital edition(01:07) Lockheed Martin’s venture fund to increase investments in space companies(01:32) SpaceX loses $900 million in rural broadband subsidies(02:00) Increased solar activity creates new challenges for smallsats(02:25) U.S. Army a key customer of BlackSky’s next-generation imaging satellite(02:53) NASASpaceFlight.com(03:24) Commercial Archives(03:50) International Archives(04:16) Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101(04:53) Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101(05:18) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(05:42) Featured – Spaceflight101(06:05) News – Spaceflight101(06:42) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(07:10) NASA Studies Find Previously Unknown Loss of Antarctic Ice(07:37) NASA to Stream Artemis I Rollout, Briefings on Science, Tech Payloads(08:03) First of NASA’s SunRISE SmallSats Rolls Off Production Line(08:29) California, Indiana Students to Hear From Astronauts on Space Station(08:59) 10 Years Since Landing, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Still Has Drive(09:26) NASA Data on Plant ‘Sweating’ Could Help Predict Wildfire Severity(09:52) Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere(10:35) Podcast Outro