Space News for Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Gist: Space News · Jul 17, 2025 · 4m

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SpaceX delivers for Amazon — launches Project Kuiper-01’s smallsats from the Cape on Wednesday – SatNews(01:00) Solestial awarded $1.2M by SpaceWERX to develop smallsat multiorbital solar array wing – SatNews(01:30) SpaceX ready to launch O3b mPower 9-10 Monday from the Cape – SatNews(01:57) SpaceX to launch NASA’s TRACERS to understand Earth’s magnetic re-connection on Tuesday from California – SatNews(02:24) Sierra Space awarded contract by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries –…