Space News for Tuesday, August 02, 2022

02/08/2022 9 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) NASA revises requirements for ISS private astronaut missions(00:41) December launch planned for Polaris Dawn(01:06) SES closes $450 million acquisition of DRS’ satellite communications business(01:34) Space Force to take on bigger role planning future DoD space investments(02:00) NASASpaceFlight.com(02:23) Commercial Archives(02:45) International Archives(03:11) Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101(03:47) Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101(04:22) News – Spaceflight101(04:45) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(05:10) Featured – Spaceflight101(05:33) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(06:03) Discovery Alert: Two New, Rocky Planets in the Solar Neighborhood(06:41) Observing Exoplanets: What Can We Really See?(07:06) Discovery Alert: See the Image – 2 Planets Orbit a Sun-like Star(07:33) Download our Exoplanet Coloring Pages and #ColorWithNASA(07:57) New apps: 'NASA Selfies' and TRAPPIST-1 VR(08:22) New clues to compositions of TRAPPIST-1 planets(08:52) Can garnet planets be habitable?(09:35) Podcast Outro