Space News for Saturday, July 25, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:22) SpaceX conducts 13th Starship test flight(00:58) ULA deals with financial challenges caused by Vulcan grounding(01:42) LatConnect 60 Unveils Proprietary AI Capabilities Following Growing Indo-Pacific Defence Interest in SWIRSAT(02:17) Office of Space Commerce to move ahead on mission authorization(02:44) Lightning strikes Long March 3B after liftoff, Kinetica-1 launches 5 satellites(03:13) Super Heavy-Starship rocket chalks up mostly successful test flight(04:07) Critical NASA Deep Space ground station in Spain evacuated due to wildfires(04:46) Launch preview: SpaceX ready for 2nd attempt to launch Starship Flight 13 following post-abort engine work(05:02) AT&T CEO Reaffirms Support for AST SpaceMobile, Dismisses Satellite Revenue Risk(05:41) New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station(06:15) NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon(07:05) Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral(07:36) Blue Origin to conduct New Glenn second stage hot fires on Stennis B-2 stand(08:15) Lunar Outpost Plans to Fly NVIDIA Chips to the Moon(08:56) What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io? NASA's Juno probe just took a peek(09:39) Planet hunter gets the silent treatment | Space photo of the day for July 24, 2026(10:23) Lightning strike on Chinese rocket captured in epic launch photo(11:09) This Week In Space LIVE: The Viking Mars landings 50 years later(11:51) Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck