Space News for Tuesday, May 20, 2025

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) DIU solicitation: CUAS Low Cost Sensing Challenge – SatNews(00:58) Carbyne and AT&T launch APEX Continuity for uninterrupted 9-1-1 call handling for AT&T customers – SatNews(01:35) NASA’s Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora – SatNews(02:03) SSC selects CACI, General Atomics, and Viasat to develop EST Phase 2 prototypes providing on-orbit crosslink compatibility in future DoD space systems – SatNews(02:38) NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’(03:06) Using ‘X-Ray Eyes’ to Find Hidden Black Holes – NASA’s NuSTAR Mission(03:30) Perseverance Rover Captures Dust Devils Whirling Across Mars (Mars Report)(03:56) NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions Launch From Vandenberg Space Force Base (Highlights)(04:24) Preparing NASA’s CADRE Moon Rovers for Launch(04:51) Faces of Leadership: The Directors of JPL(05:21) Webb, Keck observe Titan; find clouds and carbon molecule in northern hemisphere