Space News for Wednesday, August 06, 2025

06/08/2025 6 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) Rocket Lab’s successful launch from New Zealand of iQPS’ ‘The Harvest Goddess Thrives’ – SatNews(01:11) SpaceX plans Amazon’s Kuiper mission on Thursday providing weather cooperates – SatNews(01:43) ULA schedules first Vulcan rocket launch for National Security Space August 12 – SatNews(02:14) SES Space & Defense awarded sustainment tactical network contract to support the U.S. Army – SatNews(02:41) Es’hailSat provides Viasat Energy Services with expanded regional satellite connectivity – SatNews(03:12) NASA’s Artemis Crew Trains in Moonbound Orion Ahead of Mission(03:40) NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends(04:00) NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission(04:34) How SpaceX modified Pad 1 for Ship Static Fire tests to cover Massey’s downtime(05:06) Launch Roundup: Electron launches ahead of Falcon 9 missions