Space News for Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Gist: Space News · Oct 22, 2025 · 3m

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Viasat demos 1st satellite SMS messages on Android smartphone in Mexico – SatNews(00:57) 10,000th Starlink satellite launched – SatNews(01:25) ST Engineering iDirect’s Intuition Ground System now available – SatNews(01:56) ESA’s report credits themselves for better in-flight connectivity and video-calling due to experiment with Viasat antenna – SatNews(02:27) Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch first expendable Falcon 9 since January