[Space Bites] Spying on Spy Satellites // Official NASA Budget Cuts // Dragonfly Milestone

The official NASA cuts are here. Several missions reach big milestones. The Solar Gravitational Lens will be challenging to use, and in our special bonus version on Patreon, [Space Bites+] an additional story about New Horizons scanning the clouds of hydrogen around the Solar System. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro00:19 NASA budget cuts are officialhttps://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-white-house-releases-its-2026-budget-request-for-nasa-cuts-to-sls-gateway-and-orion03:31 Milestones for Dragonfly and Romanhttps://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2025/04/24/nasas-dragonfly-passes-critical-design-review/https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/key-portion-of-nasas-roman-space-telescope-clears-thermal-vacuum-test/05:22 Satellite occultationshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2505.0347406:34 Complications with SGLhttps://www.universetoday.com/articles/using-the-solar-gravitational-lens-will-be-extremely-difficult09:27 Vote results10:09 Hakuto-R 2 arrives at Moon orbithttps://www.universetoday.com/articles/ispaces-resilience-enters-lunar-orbit-itll-try-to-land-in-early-june11:32 Rogue binary planetshttps://www.universetoday.com/articles/free-floating-binary-planets-cant-last-long13:09 Strange object on the edge of the Milky Wayhttps://www.universetoday.com/articles/its-either-the-milky-ways-farthest-known-star-cluster-or-the-smallest-known-galaxy14:30 Guide to Space15:50 Space Bites+16:09 Importance of keeping up space missions📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/M96tqKyVx_Q📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/📩 CONTACT [email protected]⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast