Space News for Tuesday, July 30, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) NISAR launch slips to 2025(00:51) Announcing the launch of Starris: Optimax Space Systems, lifting precision optical payloads from idea to orbit in one year(01:23) British financial advisor Citicourt & Co plots space venture capital fund(01:53) Month: (02:25) GO! ULA for Tuesday’s U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command secret mission launch and the last national security mission for Atlas V, Vulcan is next rocket in future – SatNews(03:05) Rocket Lab ready to launch Synspective’s SAR satellite on Wednesday for “Owl for One, One for Owl” mission to build a constellation – SatNews(03:46) Lockheed Martin + Av-Comm deliver New Zealand satellite ground control + uplink processing centre for SouthPAN – SatNews(04:22) HawkEye 360’s Space-Based RF Data + Analytics now available on the global data marketplace – SatNews(05:00) Hypersonic Weapons: DoD could reduce cost + schedule risks by following leading practices – SatNews(05:32) Customers + partners experienced the NDS Factor at ND SATCOM’s factory event – SatNews(06:02) 60 Years Ago: Ranger 7 Photographs the Moon(06:29) Webb finds an old, cold, and surprising exoplanet