Space News for Wednesday, December 13, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) House committee debates space mining(00:53) Can the private sector plug the weather data gap? Space Force to launch new study(01:19) Australian space startup Quasar takes aim at U.S. defense market(01:47) Cubesat offers template for future astronomy missions(02:12) Air New Zealand to trial Starlink in key year for LEO-enabled plane Wi-Fi(02:42) True Anomaly raises $100 million to expand investments in space security technologies(03:15) Blue Origin to resume New Shepard suborbital launches(03:39) UPDATE: Yet another scrub for SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s launch of USSF-52 – SatNews(04:09) Rocket Lab’s The Moon God Awakens launch set for December 15th – SatNews(04:27) Scrub for one SpaceX Starlink launch and another scheduled for tomorrow of more Starlinks – SatNews(05:05) Ovzon 3 launch targeting no earlier than December 15, 2023 – SatNews(05:44) SmallSat Symposium update: Two new keynotes – SatNews(06:09) AFRL’s Oracle systems family developing nation’s 1st cislunar SSA capabilities – SatNews(06:39) NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake