Space News for Wednesday, August 31, 2022
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (0:00) Podcast Introduction(00:18) NASA continues to study issues that caused Artemis 1 launch scrub(00:41) Astra to sell electric thrusters to Airbus OneWeb Satellites(01:07) Direct-to-cell startups welcome Musk’s arrival(01:30) Ursa Major wins $3.6 million U.S. Air Force contract to flight-qualify rocket engine(01:55) U.S. looking to encourage more countries to join ASAT testing ban(02:20) Chinese megawatt-level space nuclear reactor passes review(02:48) Next Artemis 1 launch attempt set for Sept. 3(03:08)…
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