Space News for Thursday, March 02, 2023

02/03/2023 5 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) Crew-6 launches to space station(00:54) DoD interested in smartphone-to-satellite communications services(01:28) Rocket Lab reconsidering mid-air recovery of Electron boosters(01:58) UK provisionally clears Viasat’s Inmarsat acquisition(02:23) Virgin Galactic in final phases of return to flight(03:33) UPDATE: Rocket Lab plans two launches that will be days apart from two continents for two companies: Capella Space + BlackSky – SatNews(04:27) Spaceflight Inc. readies BlackSky smallsats for upcoming Rocket Lab launch – SatNews(04:53) TMC Technologies awarded West Virginia University contract to establish the Small Satellite Center of Excellence – SatNews(05:22) Satcube’s satellite terminals provide critical communications in Turkey and Ukraine to major media agencies and NGOs – SatNews