Space News for Wednesday, August 03, 2022

03/08/2022 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) NASA revises requirements for ISS private astronaut missions(00:47) SES closes $450 million acquisition of DRS’ satellite communications business(01:15) Slingshot acquires Numerica’s space-tracking business and UK space data firm Seradata(01:38) Momentus deploys additional satellites from Vigoride tug(02:02) RS-25 delays impact Aerojet earnings(02:28) Biden to sign chips bill in a boost for satellite supply chains(02:56) NASASpaceFlight.com(03:25) Commercial Archives(03:48) International Archives(04:14) Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101(04:41) Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101(05:10) News – Spaceflight101(05:33) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(05:58) Featured – Spaceflight101(06:24) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(06:51) Discovery Alert: Two New, Rocky Planets in the Solar Neighborhood(07:21) Observing Exoplanets: What Can We Really See?(07:55) Discovery Alert: See the Image – 2 Planets Orbit a Sun-like Star(08:24) Download our Exoplanet Coloring Pages and #ColorWithNASA(08:49) New apps: 'NASA Selfies' and TRAPPIST-1 VR(09:13) New clues to compositions of TRAPPIST-1 planets(09:43) Can garnet planets be habitable?(10:26) Podcast Outro