Space News for Tuesday, August 08, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) Solestial to supply solar arrays for Atomos space tugs(00:50) Pale Blue to supply thrusters for Yonsei University cubesats(01:16) First Starliner crewed flight delayed to 2024(01:38) Eutelsat and Thaicom go halves on Asia-focused telecoms satellite(02:06) Momentus offers smallsat bus based on Vigoride(02:37) Amazon moves Project Kuiper prototypes from Vulcan to Atlas 5(03:02) NanoAvionics completes LEO satellite for studying black holes(03:31) First piloted flight of Boeing’s oft-delayed Starliner spacecraft slips to at least March(03:55) Lockheed Martin: Smallsat rapid development facility opens + also completes the CDR for SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites – SatNews(05:04) Aerospacelab: CEO of the new North American branch + Group Chief Strategy + Revenue Officer named – SatNews(06:31) Decorated US Space Force technology leader joins Aegis Aerospace – SatNews(07:01) NASA InSight Study Finds Mars Is Spinning Faster