Space News for Tuesday, June 09, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penalty(00:58) Russia is jamming GPS from space(01:13) Quantum Space to go public in SPAC deal(02:02) WRC-27: the next arena for U.S.-China space competition(02:51) Axiom and Prada advance design of spacesuit(03:07) SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket booster on record-breaking 35th flight(03:46) Viasat Launches Space for Good India Challenge 2026 to Cultivate Next-Generation Space Innovation(04:28) Eutelsat and Voimatel Partner to Expand LEO Satellite Connectivity Across Finland(05:11) NASA Advances Interoperable Space Networks with Successful PExT Demonstration(05:47) Energration and Atombeam Partner on DARPA Proposal to Revolutionize Tactical Data Movement at the Defense Edge(06:32) Supersonic!(07:05) Digging Back in Time in the UAE(07:25) Launch Preview: Chinese, Rocket Lab, and Starlink flights scheduled(07:42) NewOrbit Raises $18.5M to Build VLEO Spacecraft at Scale(08:29) Juno Propulsion Raises $1.4M Pre-Seed for RDE Flight(09:20) Mass Is the Easy Part, Coordination Is The Hard Part(10:09) Scientists propose spraying chemicals into Earth's magnetic field to protect us from powerful solar storms(11:01) This former Paralympic athlete could become the 1st person with a physical disability to live in orbit(11:52) Astronaut spots Mount Vesuvius from space | Space photo of the day for June 8, 2026(12:31) FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation