Space News for Wednesday, August 31, 2022

31/08/2022 11 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(00:18) NASA continues to study issues that caused Artemis 1 launch scrub(00:41) Astra to sell electric thrusters to Airbus OneWeb Satellites(01:07) Direct-to-cell startups welcome Musk’s arrival(01:30) Ursa Major wins $3.6 million U.S. Air Force contract to flight-qualify rocket engine(01:55) U.S. looking to encourage more countries to join ASAT testing ban(02:20) Chinese megawatt-level space nuclear reactor passes review(02:48) Next Artemis 1 launch attempt set for Sept. 3(03:08) NASASpaceFlight.com(03:41) Commercial Archives(04:10) International Archives(04:32) Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101(05:04) Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101(05:39) News – Spaceflight101(06:01) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(06:25) Featured – Spaceflight101(06:51) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(07:19) Engineers Solve Data Glitch on NASA’s Voyager 1(07:49) NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere(08:20) NASA Helps Minority-Serving Institutions Refine Tech Proposals(08:45) NASA’s Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars’ Jezero Crater(09:14) NASA Scientists Help Probe Dark Energy by Testing Gravity(09:46) 45 Years Ago: Voyager 2 Begins Its Epic Journey to the Outer Planets and Beyond(10:17) Voyager, NASA’s Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space(10:56) Podcast Outro