Space News for Thursday, February 09, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (0:00) Podcast Introduction(00:44) Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure(01:08) As directed by Congress, Space Force to procure wideband communications satellite(01:35) Space Force touts benefits of deploying military payloads on commercial satellites(02:05) Spectrum strategy divides emerging direct-to-smartphone market(02:29) Sateliot and Sentrisense forge pact to monitor electric grid(02:53) NASASpaceFlight.com(03:25) Commercial Archives(03:57) International Archives(04:19) News – Spaceflight101(04:47) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(05:11) Featured – Spaceflight101(05:43) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(06:12) Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid(06:40) University High Reclaims Victory at JPL-Hosted Science Bowl(07:15) NASA-ISRO Earth Science Instruments Get Send-Off Before Moving to India(07:39) Scientists Track Tropical Landslide Creeping Below an African City(08:30) NASA Scientists & Historian Named AAAS 2022 Fellows(08:58) NASA Spinoffs Bolster Climate Resilience, Improve Medical Care, More(09:20) NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot(09:34) Podcast Outro