Space News for Tuesday, September 12, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Overseas firms on a journey to establish themselves as U.S. entities(00:54) Comtech plans to establish networks “in a matter of hours”(01:22) Air Force satisfied with SpaceX services, not concerned about its growing dominance(01:51) Legacy satellite operators take stock of Starlink-fueled transformation(02:17) Ball wins $489.6 million contract to deliver next-generation weather satellite sounder(02:50) Direct-to-device: a $100-billion question(03:19) Thaicom picks Airbus to build Eutelsat-backed GEO satellite for Asia(03:45) NASA Remembers September 11 from space – SatNews(04:15) Telesat + SpaceX sign an MLA for 14 advanced Lightspeed smallsats – SatNews(04:50) Rocket Lab’s launch window for the next Capella Space mission announced – SatNews(05:17) Virgin Galactic completes their fourth successful spaceflight in four months – SatNews(05:41) NASA selects Ball Aerospace to develop NOAA’s GeoXO sounder instrument – SatNews(06:07) New Chairman at ALL.SPACE – SatNews(06:40) GEOST to build resiliency payload for Northrop Grumman Tracking Layer satellites – SatNews(07:05) NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search