Space News for Friday, January 17, 2025

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster – SatNews(01:03) Exolaunch delivers 34 satellites to orbit during the Transporter-12 Rideshare Mission with SpaceX – SatNews(01:33) Blue Origin’s New Glenn reaches orbit after successful Thursday launch, “Today marks a new era” – SatNews(02:06) Slingshot Aerospace to provide tech to USSF to detect GPS jamming + spoofing threats – SatNews(02:37) Rocket Lab’s 2nd reentry class spacecraft for Varda operating on-orbit supporting payloads for AFRL + NASA – SatNews(03:13) Barclays Bank is positive on AST SpaceMobile L-band meaningful addition – SatNews(03:45) Amendment 102: Due Date Delays for Several Astrophysics Programs(04:15) Blue Origin launches New Glenn on flight NG-1 and makes orbit