Space News for Saturday, July 13, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Starlink satellites lost on Falcon 9 upper stage failure(00:50) Tina Ghataore, Group CSRO and CEO North America, Aerospacelab – Leading Women in Space(01:20) China’s Long March 6A rocket appears to have an orbital debris problem(01:50) General Atomics to build second Space Force weather satellite(02:18) Dawn Aerospace gets approvals for supersonic rocketplane tests(02:47) Booz Allen Ventures invests in space tech startup Quindar(03:18) SpaceX’s rare failure as Thursday’s launch sends all 20 satellites to their demise – SatNews(04:00) Northrop Grumman builds next generation hybrid electric uncrewed X-Plane for DARPA – SatNews(04:27) Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb’s Second Anniversary(04:51) Voyagers of Mars: The First CHAPEA Crew’s Yearlong Journey(05:19) Hubble Measures the Distance to a Supernova