Space News for Friday, July 05, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Firefly Aerospace launches NASA-sponsored cubesats(00:55) Airbus secures $2.5 billion German military satellite contract(01:24) Firefly’s July 3rd sendoff of NASA’s ELaNa 43 mission “provides a path to space for educational small satellite missions” – SatNews(02:07) July 3rd Boeing’s Starliner report, Starliner testing continues in space and on the ground, “We really want to understand the thruster and how we use it in flight” – SatNews(02:46) SpaceX’s Sunday, the 7th, Starlink launch of 20 smallsats including 13 Direct to Cell – SatNews(03:17) AAC Clyde Space to acquire Spacemetric AB – SatNews(03:43) Wishing Everyone a Happy July 4th … Independence Day, U.S.A. – SatNews(04:15) NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close Approaches