Space News for Saturday, May 09, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:21) Swift reboost mission completes environmental tests(01:02) Paraguay signs the Artemis Accords(01:46) Rocket Lab announces large launch contract and plans to acquire space robotics company(02:02) SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Johannes Galatsanos, Diffraqtion(02:40) UAE Space Agency Drives Public-Private Collaboration at MIITE 2026(02:56) I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas(03:37) NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing(03:58) Glowing Views from the Space Station(04:35) Booster 19 completes Static Fire as Ship 39 prepares for rollout(04:56) Lunar Outpost Closes $30M Series B, Unveils New Rover(05:34) HawkEye 360 Raises $416M in IPO(05:45) NASA's Artemis 2 commander and astrophotographer team up to capture breathtaking, never-before-seen shots of the moon's far side(06:30) Pentagon unveils trove of declassfied 'UFO' videos. How to see them all, from 'a football-shaped body' to 'a misshapen and uneven ball of white light'(07:17) Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos(07:42) Blue Origin tests 1st moon lander ahead of lunar launch later this year (photo)(08:24) The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space photo of the day for May 8, 2026(09:06) Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology