Space News for Thursday, June 11, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:22) Artemis 3 commander confident crew will be ready for 2027 mission(00:34) House appropriators back $55.5 billion Space Force budget, omit reconciliation funds(01:09) Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Two New Space Supply Chain Members(01:35) Spire to pursue space-based missile warning in partnership with German defense firm(02:23) UK startup Applied Atomics to enter US market with focus on military space mobility(02:49) NASA chief defends selection of all-male Artemis 3 crew(03:04) Breaking the TRL Bottleneck: Space Phoenix Systems Debuts Cost-Effective Space Test-and-Return Service(03:39) NOAA Activates First Dedicated U.S. Space Weather Satellite One Million Miles from Earth(04:22) Made in Space: UK funding boosts breakthrough space technologies(04:47) Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!(05:32) NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California(06:15) NASA, NOAA to Hold Joint Session at 23rd Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems(06:38) NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence(07:28) Stoke Space completes Nova Stage 1 structural verification(08:13) Symphony Space Unveils Adagio-XL ODC Sat(08:54) Orbital Raises $5M Pre-Seed to Build ODC Constellation(09:37) James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence the mysterious 'little red dots' are black hole stars(09:50) The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have created a vast underground habitat for life that lasted 8 million years(10:36) NASA's ambitious Artemis 3 mission includes 3 giant rocket launches, 2 private moon landers and 1 big question: Can it all work together?