Space News for Wednesday, July 16, 2025

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 17-3 smallsats on Friday from California – SatNews(00:57) Australia’s Gilmour Space explains why NO GO, and scrubs Wednesday’s maiden launch of Eris Test Flight1 – SatNews(01:32) Amphinicy Technologies receives contract for operations support at EUMETSAT’s Svalbard and Azores facilities, and LEO ground stations monitoring and control solutions – SatNews(02:06) Redwire announces addition of the Edge Autonomy Stalker UAS to the DoD’s Blue List of approved drones – SatNews(02:36) NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research(03:02) NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar(03:36) One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions(04:10) Launch Roundup: Chinese cargo resupply mission, Falcon 9 launches Kuiper satellites