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The Gist: Space News

Dr. Mason Nixon

The Gist is a space news aggregation podcast that gives you the top space-related stories of the day with an emphasis of space technologies, current launches, small satellites, etc. Generally, each episode will be around 10 to 20 minutes long to help break up your commute or downtime and keep you up-to-date on all of the top stories of the day.

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3:05

Space News for Saturday, August 16, 2025

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2025/08/16

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Hubble Examines Low Brightness, High Interest Galaxy(01:02) NASA's VEG-03 Experiment Grows Fresh Food for Future Missions(01:28) East Coast sees major progress for future operations at the Cape(02:08) Skyrora weighs options on the path to the UK’s first vertical launch

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3:52

Space News for Friday, August 15, 2025

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2025/08/15

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) SpaceX readies for Sunday launch of 24 smallsats of Starlink Group 17-5 from California – SatNews(00:59) SpaceX launches 28 Starlink smallsats of Group 10-20 from the Cape on Thursday – SatNews(01:27) AST SpaceMobile plays Game of Phones – SatNews(01:57) satellite collaborations still in early stages – SatNews(02:27) NASA’s Apollo Samples, LRO Help Scientists Forecast

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4:49

Space News for Thursday, August 14, 2025

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2025/08/14

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) U.S. Space Force’s L3Harris-built NTS-3 satellite successfully launches – SatNews(00:59) NASA selects 6 Companies to provide OTV studies – SatNews(01:27) SpaceX launches Starlink Group 17-4 smallsats despite worst fog yet on a California night – SatNews(02:11) Luxembourg invests $350 million in GovSat-2 – SatNews(02:35) Kuiper mission updates: Kuiper constellation grows to more

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5:16

Space News for Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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2025/08/13

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) Arianespace’s Ariane 6 successfully launches Metop-SGA1 weather satellite “This is the beginning of an exciting new chapter” – SatNews(00:55) ULA, GO Vulcan! GO Centaur! GO USSF-106! and they did! – SatNews(01:43) SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 17-4 smallsats from California on Wednesday – SatNews(02:19) Viasat unveils HaloNet capability for near-Earth comms + beyond –

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5:03

Space News for Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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2025/08/12

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SpaceX delivers for Amazon, with launch of Project Kuiper’s smallsat KF-02 Mission – SatNews(01:07) EchoStar needs to act swiftly on launch plans – SatNews(01:33) Forrester’s Digest: AST SpaceMobile update imminent – SatNews(02:02) Arianespace ready for Tuesday launch of EUMETSAT’s Metop-SG A1 weather satellite – SatNews(02:29) L-1 UPDATE: ULA Vulcan USSF-106 mission progressing

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4:16

Space News for Monday, August 11, 2025

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2025/08/11

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) L3Harris NTS-3 NAVSAT preparing for launch – SatNews(00:58) Boeing delivers Nusantara Lima (SNL) satellite to PSN, advancing connectivity across Indonesia, Southeast Asia – SatNews(01:33) SpaceX plans Monday launch of Starlink Group 17-4 smallsats from California – SatNews(02:04) L-2 Update: ULA Vulcan USSF-106 mission progresses towards Tuesday launch – SatNews(02:42) SpaceX

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3:29

Space News for Saturday, August 09, 2025

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2025/08/09

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake(00:55) NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin(01:25) Crew-10 poised for return to Earth after months at ISS(02:01) Chinese launch cadence picks up as Tianlong-3 prepares for launch(02:28) ULA CEO Tory Bruno Outlines plans for Vulcan and beyond

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3:52

Space News for Friday, August 08, 2025

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2025/08/08

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:23) RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies announces new + larger spacecraft – SatNews(00:50) First next generation GEO-based missile warning satellite completes environmental testing, on track for delivery to USSF – SatNews(01:23) SpaceX’s ‘delivery’ of Amazon’s ProjectKuiper launch scrubbed and is now on Friday – SatNews(01:51) Astroscale’s new patent transforms space debris removal –

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4:03

Space News for Thursday, August 07, 2025

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2025/08/07

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Space Scotland’s new CEO returns and is ready to ramp up country in preparation of Orbital Launch – SatNews(00:59) Open Cosmos kicks off first rideshare mission for the European Commission’s IOD(01:26) Firefly’s award of $177 Million from NASA for mission to the Moon’s South Pole – SatNews(02:09) Japan seeks to create int’l rules on space debris removal – SatNews(02:38) Impulse

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6:03

Space News for Wednesday, August 06, 2025

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2025/08/06

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Rocket Lab’s successful launch from New Zealand of iQPS’ ‘The Harvest Goddess Thrives’ – SatNews(01:11) SpaceX plans Amazon’s Kuiper mission on Thursday providing weather cooperates – SatNews(01:43) ULA schedules first Vulcan rocket launch for National Security Space August 12 – SatNews(02:14) SES Space & Defense awarded sustainment tactical network contract to support the U.S

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3:47

Space News for Tuesday, August 05, 2025

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2025/08/05

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Space Ocean Corp + Astrum Drive Inc form strategic collaboration – SatNews(00:49) INNOSPACE achieves global compliance ISO 37301 certification – SatNews(01:22) SpaceX set to launch Amazon’s mission Project Kuiper (KF-02) on Thursday from the Cape – SatNews(01:55) Kiwi’s Rocket Lab readies for Monday launch of iQPS’ ‘The Harvest Goddess Thrives’ Earth monitoring services –

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3:26

Space News for Monday, August 04, 2025

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2025/08/04

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Vaya Space selected for $1.2 million AFWERX Phase II contract to advance hypersonic propulsion – SatNews(00:56) SpaceX set to launch 28 Starlink’s Group 10-30 smallsats weather permitting from the Cape – SatNews(01:25) Milestone sensor upgrade enhances USSF identifying and tracking capabilities – SatNews(02:00) Blue Origin’s successful Sunday launch of New Shepard’s 34 mission –

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2:48

Space News for Saturday, August 02, 2025

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2025/08/02

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Godspeed as SpaceX’s Dragon transports NASA’s Crew-11 astronauts on mission to the ISS – SatNews(00:58) SpaceX plans Sunday the 3rd to launch 28 Starlink smallsats from Group 10-39 at the Cape – SatNews(01:28) NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars(01:56) NUBE: New Card Game Helps Learners Identify Cloud Types Through Play

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Space News for Friday, August 01, 2025

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2025/08/01

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) NearSpace Launch reaches major milestone of more than 1000 systems and subsystems – SatNews(00:56) SpaceX launches in thick California fog 19 Starlink Group 13-4 smallsats that may include some unclassified satellites – SatNews(01:31) Viasat suffers rejection by ITU – SatNews(01:54) HawkEye 360 launches advanced GNSS interference detection capabilities – SatNews(02:27) Gilmour’s

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3:46

Space News for Thursday, July 31, 2025

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2025/07/31

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Forrester’s Digest: Forecast: Australia to spend €370m+ on LEO satellites – SatNews(01:01) NASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces – SatNews(01:30) AWS expands Ground Station as a Service Partner program with KSAT – SatNews(02:10) Gilat awarded $8+ million from Israel’s MoD for strategic defense communication solutions – SatNews(02:42) Joint NASA-ISRO

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5:17

Space News for Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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2025/07/30

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SSC continues to transform acquisition of SATCOM capabilities—5 companies contracted – SatNews(00:59) Gilmour Space Technologies’ giant leap for Australia’s space capability with successful first test launch of Eris rocket – SatNews(01:42) SpaceX launches Starlink Group 10-29 of 28 smallsats from the Cape – SatNews(02:10) BAE Systems delivers NOAA’s SWFO-L1 + NASA’s Carruthers

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Space News for Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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2025/07/29

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) NASA and ISRO’s joint project, NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite set to launch from India on Wednesday – SatNews(01:07) Australia’s Gilmour Space Technologies posts delay of launch now Tuesday. hopefully – SatNews(01:38) Dawn Aerospace joins the 10 million euros LEO2VLEO satellite consortium – SatNews(02:08) Thales Alenia Space Italy to develop the first lunar

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3:26

Space News for Monday, July 28, 2025

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2025/07/28

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) MicroCarb launched – SatNews(00:47) SpaceX to launch Starlink Group 13-4 with 19 smallsats from California on Wednesday – SatNews(01:21) Auriga Space raises $6 million to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track – SatNews(01:53) SpaceX plans launch of astronauts from U.S. NASA, Japan JAXA and Russia Roscosmos to ISS – SatNews(02:35) Crew-11 Arrives at Kennedy Space

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3:36

Space News for Friday, July 25, 2025

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2025/07/25

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:24) Arianespace readies for Vega-C launch of CO3D + MicroCarb misson on Friday to map Earth in 3D + find sinks of carbon dioxide – SatNews(01:10) Blue Origin’s 1st Blue Ring mission to demo SDA with Scout Space sensor – SatNews(01:36) Australia’s Gilmour Space Technologies is prepping for their first Eris test flight on Saturday – SatNews(02:12) Space Foundation Study: Space economy

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3:42

Space News for Thursday, July 24, 2025

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2025/07/24

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's topspace news stories. Enjoy!(00:10) Podcast Introduction(00:25) SpaceX launches NASA’s TRACERS mission Wednesday from California – SatNews(00:57) ThrustMe + Marble Imaging + Reflex Aerospace form strategic partnership for on-orbit demo in 2026 – SatNews(01:35) DeepSat selects Redwire’s AI-powered digital engineering systems for precursor mission in VLEO – SatNews(02:11) Viasat expands global IoT capabilities with IoT Nano – SatNews(02:47)

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