Space News for Friday, September 22, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Sierra Space tests inflatable module technology(00:55) True Anomaly gets $17 million Space Force contract for space domain awareness software(01:31) NASA Mars Sample Return budget and schedule “unrealistic,” independent review concludes(02:00) The Artemis Accords: Changing the Narrative from Space Race to Space Cooperation(02:32) China’s Galactic Energy suffers first launch failure(03:05) FAA proposes rule to limit lifetime of upper stages in orbit(03:34) Space Force revising commercial space strategy to make it “actionable”(04:05) True Anomaly receives million$$ USSF contract for SDA – SatNews(04:31) AMD Versal AI Edge Adaptive SoC for space apps – SatNews(04:58) Atheras Analytics to improve Ka-band link of weather outage predictions – SatNews(05:22) Sierra Space reinvents the Space Station — affordable in-space infrastructure within reach – SatNews(05:47) Meet the Mars Samples: Ha'ahóni and Atsá (Samples 8 and 9)