Space News for Saturday, February 22, 2025

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) NASA awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope launch services contract – SatNews(00:59) SpaceX sends 23 Starlink smallsats soaring including 13 Direct to Cell – SatNews(01:27) Arianespace ‘postpones’ Ariane 6 launch of French CSO-3 with operations underway – SatNews(02:00) Forrester’s Digest: Airbus, Thales to merge satellite divisions? – SatNews(02:24) NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind(02:56) Hubble Spies a Spiral That May Be Hiding an Imposter(03:27) Lunar Trailblazer's Looping Lunar Voyage(03:54) NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in Moon's Orbit (Artist's Concept)(04:20) Packing Up a CADRE Rover(04:49) Taking a CADRE Rover in Hand(05:17) Map of California Subsidence and Uplift(06:05) Star Trackers for Europa Clipper(06:35) First Images From NASA's Europa Clipper(06:58) Isar Aerospace completes static fires of Spectrum rocket ahead of first European launch