Space News for Saturday, September 17, 2022

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (0:00) Podcast Introduction(00:18) Congress asks for more transparency into New Shepard failure investigation(00:40) Intuitive Machines to go public in SPAC merger(01:08) Rocket Lab launches Japanese radar imaging satellite on 30th Electron mission(01:33) New tri-agency office to coordinate U.S. missile-defense space programs(02:01) Viasat’s Inmarsat acquisition clears UK national security review(02:23) Satellite radar startups spar over commercial market importance(02:48) NASASpaceFlight.com(03:21) Commercial Archives(03:43) International Archives(04:04) Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101(04:43) Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101(05:21) News – Spaceflight101(05:46) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(06:11) Featured – Spaceflight101(06:37) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(07:05) NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain(07:36) NASA to Host Briefing on Perseverance Mars Rover Mission Operations(08:07) NASA’s AIRS Instrument Records Typhoon Hinnamnor Before Landfall(08:30) A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb(09:01) NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World(09:24) Explore the Solar System With NASA’s New-and-Improved 3D ‘Eyes’(09:54) Engineers Solve Data Glitch on NASA’s Voyager 1(10:40) Podcast Outro