Space News for Saturday, February 21, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) Bruno says he joined Blue Origin to work on ‘urgent’ national security projects(00:55) Aalto plots Australia base to boost planned high-altitude pseudo satellite service(01:32) NASA targeting March 6 for Artemis 2 launch(02:10) Boeing to boost production of missile-tracking sensors for military satellites(02:26) NASA completes second Artemis 2 fueling test(03:10) SPARC AI Integrates ML Optimization into Overwatch to Mitigate Drone Telemetry Drift(04:03) NASA Is Helping Bring Giant Tortoises Back to the Galápagos(04:32) Artemis II Crew Trains on T-38(04:52) Boeing insists NASA criticism will reinforce efforts on Starliner(05:13) Orbital Data, Niche Markets Give Space Solar a New Shimmer(06:09) The Milky Way may be hiding a big secret at its heart: an extremely magnetic dead star(06:51) These 70 dusty galaxies at the edge of our universe could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos(07:35) NASA X-ray spacecraft stares into the 'eye of the storm' swirling around supermassive black holes(08:26) Trump says US government will declassify its UFO files. Will we actually learn anything this time, or is this a distraction?(09:16) 'This is really getting real.' NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket fueling test went so well, astronauts could launch March 6(10:03) Rocket Report: Chinese launch firm raises big money; Falcon 9 back to the Bahamas