Space News for Tuesday, December 19, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) After raising $9.5 million, startup OurSky sees strong demand for space data platform(00:58) New Shepard return to flight slips one day(01:24) Lynk Global plans to go public to fund direct-to-smartphone satellites(01:50) Report: Hypersonic weapons challenge Pentagon tracking capabilities(02:19) Spain’s new space agency is a bigger deal than it seems(02:47) Satellite navigation startup TrustPoint announces partnership with SpiderOak(03:15) HawkEye 360 acquires Maxar’s RF Solutions business unit(03:46) Month: (04:13) Space X Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral(04:45) News from the Press Site: A roundup of the week’s space news(05:09) UPDATE Delay for ULA’s Vulcan Centaur launch first certification mission (Cert-1) – SatNews(05:41) Blue Origin scrubs Monday’s NS-24 Mission – SatNews(06:09) Famous Apple industrial designer joins Vast as an advisor – SatNews(06:37) Thales Alenia Space selects the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility for FLEX satellite 1st test – SatNews(07:06) HawkEye 360 acquires RF Solutions from Maxar Intelligence to expand spectrum scanning – SatNews(07:39) Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® enters final test campaign + transitioning to orbital operations – SatNews(08:13) NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser