Space News for Thursday, May 04, 2023

04/05/2023 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) Seraphim picks startups for eleventh accelerator program(00:55) Czech Republic signs Artemis Accords(01:24) Private equity firm closes $6.4 billion deal to acquire Maxar Technologies(01:52) NASA awards contracts for NOAA coronagraph studies(02:18) Lockheed, Raytheon to develop ground systems for nuclear-hardened satellite communications(02:49) Plutonium availability constrains plans for future planetary missions(03:18) SpaceX rockets past 4,000 Starlink satellites in orbit with another Falcon 9 launch(03:53) Month: (05:57) Caught in the Act: Astronomers Detect a Star Devouring a Planet(06:20) Elon Musk pushes for orbital goal following data gathering objectives during Starship debut