Space News for Friday, June 07, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) AI powering commercial insights into the final frontier(00:53) Report: Space Force transitioning to new model for the defense of space(01:22) Remembering the humans in human spaceflight(01:48) HPE’s Spaceborne Computer offers template for space-based AI(02:15) Chang’e-6 spacecraft dock in lunar orbit ahead of journey back to Earth(02:45) First Ariane 6 launch set for July 9(03:09) SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test ‘super heavy’ lands ‘softly’ … next Moon then Mars – SatNews(03:47) Firefly Aerospace announces multi-launch agreement with Lockheed Martin – SatNews(04:15) Boeing and Northrop Grumman competing for Space Force Program – SatNews(04:49) Ubotica awarded European Defence Fund grant for space defence – SatNews(05:15) Equatorial Launch Australia’s Head of Arnhem Space Centre Site Operations is ex-Royal Australian Air Force Officer – SatNews(05:52) Retired U.S.A.F. Colonel Karlton Johnson named CEO of the National Space Society – SatNews(06:17) Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star(06:43) Jonathan Lunine Appointed Chief Scientist of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory