Space News for Thursday, March 05, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) Third Kairos launch fails(01:09) Senate committee advances NASA authorization bill that changes Artemis and extends ISS(01:47) Telus invests in AST SpaceMobile to expand D2D coverage in Canada(02:42) Space Force presses case for more personnel and training(03:28) Mutable Tactics raises $2.1 million for AI drone coordination in satellite-denied environments(04:09) SpaceX launches 600th Starlink satellite of 2026 during predawn Falcon 9 rocket flight from Cape Canaveral(04:56) SatNews Launches New Website: 52,000 Stories, Zero Left Behind(05:12) The Iran Precedent: Operation Epic Fury and the Law of Armed Conflict in Space(05:54) MDA Space Delivers Record $1.6 Billion Revenue in 2025; Unveils $40 Billion Opportunity Pipeline(06:38) Blue Origin Accelerates New Glenn 9×4 Production and TeraWave Constellation Development(07:26) A Little Town with a Long Name(07:44) High-Speed Flight Project Overview(08:12) About Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP)(08:51) Blowing Stellar Bubbles(09:31) I Am Artemis: Paul Boehm(10:15) US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water(11:06) China to test capsule further, attempt booster recoveries on land and sea(11:43) PLD Space Closes €180M Series C, Eyes Flight Test This Year(12:34) ICEYE Launches New Deforestation Monitoring Tool(13:11) Heritage Foundation Rates Space Force ‘Marginal’(13:58) The Rubin Observatory will change the game for astronomy — if satellite companies don't get in the way(14:45) 'War of the Worlds' in reverse? Mars dirt could help fight off a microbial invasion from Earth(15:25) Auroras on Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede look like Earth's northern lights, NASA spacecraft reveals(16:14) Antarctica has lost 5,000 square miles of 'grounded ice' in the last 30 years, satellite images reveal(16:31) Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space