Space News for Tuesday, August 29, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Tropical Storm Idalia delays national security Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral(00:54) Month: (01:30) Space Systems Command’s statement before the scrub of National Reconnaissance Office’s SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 – SatNews(02:05) UPDATE: Scrubbed ULA’s NRO and U.S. Space Force’s SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 – SatNews(02:48) UPDATE 1: Launch of JAXA’s XRISM + SLIM now put on hold due to weather – SatNews(03:18) OSK’s first Hyperspectral Insights from GHOSt Constellation – SatNews(03:40) Successful precipitation Scans from Tomorrow.io’s space radars – SatNews(04:03) Spire Global participates in NGA prize challenge – SatNews(04:33) U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC) celebrates their 2nd anniversary – SatNews(05:07) NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search(05:32) Japanese H-IIA scrubs launch of X-ray telescope and lunar lander