Space News for Tuesday, August 04, 2026
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:22) Rocketdyne reemerges as standalone space company(00:49) Kreios Space to fly VLEO demonstration in NanoAvionics bus(01:29) NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions(01:41) Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink(02:29) Xona secures spectrum approval for satellite navigation network(03:20) Planet Labs Secures Seven-Figure Agricultural Data Contract with Scottish Government(03:46) FCC Authorizes Xona Space Systems for…
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