Space News for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Exolaunch to deploy satellites for Capella Space, Pixxel + More on upcoming mission with SpaceX – SatNews(00:50) SpaceX to launch 24 smallsats in Starlink Group 17-6 on Friday from California – SatNews(01:26) New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope – SatNews(01:53) Rocket Lab to launch “Live, Laugh, Launch,” on Saturday – SatNews(02:17) Evaluating Blue Origin’s Mars Telecom Orbiter Proposal
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