Space News for Tuesday, March 05, 2024

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:22) NASA studies to examine commercial partnerships for Mars exploration(00:54) Astra warns of liquidation if proposal to go private falls through(01:21) Final NASA 2024 spending bill defers decision on MSR funding(01:57) Propulsion demo, climate change monitoring satellite among 53 payloads launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare flight(02:36) SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites(03:15) Month: (03:42) SpaceX launches the Transporter-10 mission – SatNews(04:15) Airbus Defence and Space and mu Space’s Memorandum of Understanding – SatNews(04:40) BAE Systems’ MethaneSAT launched – SatNews(05:05) NASA awards contracts for Flight, Payload Integration Services – SatNews(05:36) Axelspace’s demonstration satellite PYXIS successfully launches and sends voice transmission – SatNews(06:06) Multiple Spacecraft Tell the Story of One Giant Solar Storm(06:31) NASA’s Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa(06:58) ISS Roundup: Cygnus NG-20, Axiom Mission 3, and Progress MS-26