Space News for Thursday, November 21, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SpaceX launches Starship’s sixth flight test including a banana as the payload – SatNews(00:50) SpaceX Starlink Group 6-66 ready to launch 24 smallsats on Thursday – SatNews(01:18) Ligado can sue U.S. Government for $39bn in claims that the government stole its L-band spectrum – SatNews(01:52) Bharti buys 24.5% stake in BT from Altice – SatNews(02:23) NASA to assign missions for two future Artemis cargo landers – SatNews(02:53) Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet(03:17) NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode(03:42) NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly(04:07) NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels