Space News for Saturday, March 21, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) Officina Stellare wins $2 million contract for lasercom ground station in Spain(01:07) Rocket Lab launches eighth Synspective radar imaging satellite(02:03) Another GPS launch shifts from ULA to SpaceX as Vulcan investigation continues(02:50) OHB Sweden wins €248 million contract to build EPS-Sterna constellation(03:12) Holistic space observation: the shift from SSA to SDA(03:48) SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB(04:28) The Pentagon’s SmallSats Have An Amnesia Problem(05:00) Eutelsat Group Leadership and 2026 Strategic Roadmap(05:28) NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight(06:10) Hangar One Restoration Project(06:34) NASA Selects University Finalists for Technology Concepts Competition(07:01) How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries(07:40) Smiles and Spacesuits(08:15) SLS enters pad flow ahead of historic Artemis II mission(08:35) Kayhan Space Launches Satcat Terminal(09:22) Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn(10:07) Hubble Space Telescope accidentally witnesses comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking apart(10:39) Rocket Lab scores $190 million launch deal to test hypersonic tech for US military(11:25) Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to launch pad | Space photo of the day for March 20, 2026(11:52) Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars(12:35) NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes