Space News for Wednesday, July 01, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:20) Report links Starliner problems to overconfidence and unrealistic schedules(00:52) FCC to vote on satellite licensing overhaul July 22(01:09) Unseen threats overhead: Drones endanger U.S. rocket launch sites(01:38) Vantor offers up-to-date imagery with WorldView 3D(02:11) Latitude plans to conduct first launch from Oman(02:51) Blue Origin outlines new launch pad approach as it pushes to return New Glenn to flight(03:29) The SpaceX IPO tells one story. Here is the more important one.(04:03) SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB(04:44) The SatNews Offices Will Be Closed Friday, July 3.(05:02) AST SpaceMobile Finalizes Assembly of Next-Generation BlueBirds for August SpaceX Launch(05:31) SEOPS Completes Multi-National Integration of 10 Payloads for SpaceX Transporter-17 Mission(06:09) NASA Adds Kuva US to $476 Million Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition On-Ramp Contract(06:37) Myriota Unveils Hybrid 5G Satellite and Cellular IoT Network Subscriptions(07:01) NASA Seeks Volunteers for New Yearlong Simulated Moon, Mars Mission(07:42) NASA announces new lander contracts for Moon Base Phase One(08:00) Blue Origin accelerates LC-36 recovery via hybrid plan(08:49) Exclusive: Lunar Forge Unveils Plans to Build Lunar Infrastructure Out of Dust(09:26) Atlas V rocket launches 29 Amazon Leo broadband satellites to orbit from Florida (video)(10:11) 'Rocket's Red Glare': How NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission celebrated America's 250th birthday(10:57) This weird 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet has a hotspot in the wrong place, and astronomers aren't sure how(11:42) The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete. 'For astronomy, this would obviously be catastrophic'