Space News for Thursday, June 04, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:22) Delian Asparouhov and Philip Johnston on making the case for orbital data centers(00:56) NASA working to streamline development of nuclear electric propulsion demo mission(01:28) China builds institutional framework for space computing push(02:10) SES Partners with Viva to Launch Multi-Orbit In-Flight Connectivity(02:53) The Exploration Company advances Nyx parachute recovery(03:37) NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It's not the only probe in the Mars morgue(04:14) A rainbow patchwork quilt shows agriculture from space | Space photo of the day for June 4, 2026(04:52) Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spacecraft: SETI hunt for 'technosignatures' comes up empty(05:11) Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world