Space News for Wednesday, March 19, 2025

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) SpaceX welcomes and celebrates successfully rescuing NASA’s stranded astronauts – SatNews(00:57) KONGSBERG launches and is now operating their 1st satellite – SatNews(01:28) Startical launches their first satellite—IOD-1 – SatNews(02:06) 2025 Independent + Hybrid Teleport Operators + Teleport Technology of the Year award winners announced by World Teleport Association – SatNews(02:39) Viasat’s contract with ATLAS Space Operations to provide NASA with mission-critical support – SatNews(03:18) General Atomics OTB satellite completes scheduled five-year mission – SatNews(03:44) Sidus Space’s lucky LizzieSat™-3’s successful launch will expand AI-driven on-orbit capabilities – SatNews(04:12) NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission(04:38) Dream Chaser completes more pre-flight milestones(05:00) Launch Roundup: Electron, Falcon 9, and Ceres-1 launches flying this week