Space News for Thursday, March 26, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) Space Force weighs launch alternatives as Vulcan faces potential months-long grounding(01:15) Office of Space Commerce releases mission authorization proposal(02:03) Terran Orbital Introduces New Star Tracker Product Line at SATSHOW 2026(02:39) Telesat eyes defense role with laser comms test ahead of LEO debut(02:57) Sift raises $42 million in Series B round(03:35) NexSat Space Systems Debuts with ACE ‘Invisible’ Aero-Conformal Antenna(03:51) Rocket Lab Emerging as Potential Bus Provider for 2,800-Satellite Equatys Constellation(04:32) SES Taps K2 Space for Next-Gen ‘meoSphere’ MEO Network(05:11) Dual-Use by Design: Telesat Lightspeed and the End of Civilian Telecom in LEO(05:47) SpaceX Accelerates Record-Breaking IPO Following Trillion-Dollar xAI Merger(06:28) A Hot Start to Spring in the Southwest(06:57) La NASA anuncia la cobertura de la misión lunar Artemis II(07:27) NASA Ames Experts Available for Artemis II Flight Test Interviews(08:11) NASA Sets Coverage for First Artemis Crewed Mission Around Moon(08:59) NASA-ISRO Satellite Captures Pacific Northwest Through Clouds(09:51) NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets(10:31) NASA outlines Moon Base plans, pivots on Gateway(11:29) Isar Aerospace scrubs second launch of Spectrum rocket(12:22) PAVE Space Raises $40M for In-Space Propulsion Tech(13:05) Airbase Emerges From Stealth With $5M to Automate Spectrum Allocation(13:35) Lightning on Jupiter could be up to 1 million times stronger than on Earth(14:03) 100 new alien worlds: Scientists find hidden haul in data from NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft(14:25) Canada cancels its 1st moon rover: 'It's hopefully not a lost cause'(15:03) Rocket shines under the northern lights | Space photo of the day for March 25, 2026(15:41) Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars