Space News for Wednesday, September 21, 2022

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (0:00) Podcast Introduction(00:18) Lander companies prepare to shoot for the moon(00:40) Draft solicitation for national security space launch services expected in early 2023(01:03) Maxar offering new space-monitoring service to help track objects in orbit(01:32) Space Force procurement chief criticizes over-engineered satellite programs(01:53) Next batch of OneWeb satellites arrive in India for launch(02:18) NASA set for “kinder, gentler” SLS tanking test(02:45) Live coverage: Another hydrogen leak detected during Artemis 1 tanking test – Spaceflight Now(03:07) NASASpaceFlight.com(03:38) Commercial Archives(04:11) International Archives(04:36) Chinese Long March 3B Launches APStar-6C Communications Satellite – Spaceflight101(05:13) Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reaches new Heights in latest Test Flight – Spaceflight101(05:40) ISS Updates – Spaceflight101 – International Space Station(06:04) Featured – Spaceflight101(06:27) News – Spaceflight101(06:51) Re-Entry: Long March 11 Rocket Body – Spaceflight101(07:22) NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars(07:48) NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain(08:14) NASA to Host Briefing on Perseverance Mars Rover Mission Operations(08:43) NASA’s AIRS Instrument Records Typhoon Hinnamnor Before Landfall(09:07) A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb(09:41) NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World(10:04) Explore the Solar System With NASA’s New-and-Improved 3D ‘Eyes’(10:51) Podcast Outro