Space News for Sunday, June 09, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) Virgin Galactic conducts final VSS Unity commercial suborbital spaceflight(00:55) SpaceX and the categorical imperative to achieve low launch cost(01:34) SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base(02:09) SpaceX’s Super Hat Trick with Thursday’s Starship mission, Friday’s Starlink satellites, and Saturday’s Starlink satellites launch including six Direct to Cell – SatNews(02:46) The first 5 Kinéis smallsats to be launched to orbit via Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher – SatNews(03:23) SpaceX Starship’s fourth flight test ‘super heavy’ lands ‘softly’ … next Moon then Mars – SatNews(04:01) Ubotica awarded European Defence Fund grant for space defence – SatNews(04:26) Equatorial Launch Australia’s Head of Arnhem Space Centre Site Operations is ex-Royal Australian Air Force Officer – SatNews(04:56) Boeing and Northrop Grumman competing for Space Force Program – SatNews(05:30) ST Engineering iDirect next generation hub selected for Indonesia’s 1st multifunction satellite – SatNews