Space News for Friday, August 09, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Virgin Galactic outlines economics of its future spaceplanes(00:58) Logan, Utah, bids farewell to the Small Satellite Conference(01:24) Commerce Department preparing to turn on initial version of space traffic coordination service(01:55) Gabrielle Carlisle, Millennium Space Systems – Leading Women in Space(02:23) U.S. Army gears up for space warfare, drawing lessons from Ukraine(02:51) Spanish defense contractor buys small satellite mission specialist Deimos(03:24) NASA sends final command to its NEOWISE spacecraft, ending more than a decade of asteroid observations(04:01) Rocket Lab’s ready now to launch Capella’s Acadia-3 SAR satellite eight days after previous mission – SatNews(04:30) Indra acquires Spanish defense company Deimos to strengthen its capabilities in all phases of a space mission – SatNews(05:00) Dcubed’s €4.4M in Series-A funding round will expand in-space manufacturing and open a Colorado office – SatNews(05:33) Saudi Arabia to host HALO Space’s landmark test flight – SatNews(06:04) Amendment 39: B.9 Heliophysics Low Cost Access to Space Proposal Due Date Delay(06:43) NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections(07:20) Here’s How Curiosity’s Sky Crane Changed the Way NASA Explores Mars(07:49) ISS prepares for Starliner contingencies and resumption of EVAs