Space News for Wednesday, August 06, 2025

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space 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. Army – SatNews
(02:41) Es’hailSat provides Viasat Energy Services with expanded regional satellite connectivity – SatNews
(03:12) NASA’s Artemis Crew Trains in Moonbound Orion Ahead of Mission
(03:40) NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends
(04:00) NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission
(04:34) How SpaceX modified Pad 1 for Ship Static Fire tests to cover Massey’s downtime
(05:06) Launch Roundup: Electron launches ahead of Falcon 9 missions