Space News for Thursday, March 07, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Italian space startup Kurs Orbital raises $4 million in seed funding(00:54) Italy in Space: Setting New Records for Electric Propulsion in Routine Operations(01:22) Launch the ORBITS Act(01:44) Thaicom orders small GEO satellite from Astranis for a launch in 2025(02:10) China outlines position on use of space resources(02:38) Satellite connectivity backups put to use over Red Sea(03:06) SpaceX tentatively targets March 14 for third Starship flight(03:40) SpaceX ramps up again for Starship’s third flight test – SatNews(04:11) USSF awards Boeing WGS-12 satellite production contract – SatNews(04:40) Finally a maiden flight for Space One’s Kairos rocket – SatNews(05:04) Terran Orbital awarded IDIQ contract by NASA – SatNews(05:31) World´s 1st SDA T1 & T2 compliant digital optical ground station comms package – SatNews(05:54) Teledyne e2v HiRel releases catalog radiation tolerant S-Band Ultra-Low Noise Amplifier for space applications – SatNews(06:28) Back on Earth: NASA’s Orion Capsule Put to the Test Before Crewed Mission(07:12) Using Hubble and Webb, scientists investigate galaxies responsible for the reionization of the universe