Space News for Friday, April 03, 2026
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) China’s commercial Tianlong-3 rocket fails on debut launch(00:45) Artemis 2 heads to the moon(01:06) Swift spacecraft reorientation buys time for reboost mission(01:40) Former Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice to lead Astrion(02:35) Optical terminals still a bottleneck in Pentagon’s proliferated constellation(02:50) CAS Space Successfully Launches Kinetica-2, Aiming for Global Cost Leadership(03:26) L3Harris Taps Mercury Systems for High-Capacity Data Storage on SDA Tranche 3…
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