Space News for Wednesday, December 13, 2023

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top
space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:25) House committee debates space mining
(00:53) Can the private sector plug the weather data gap? Space Force to launch new study
(01:19) Australian space startup Quasar takes aim at U.S. defense market
(01:47) Cubesat offers template for future astronomy missions
(02:12) Air New Zealand to trial Starlink in key year for LEO-enabled plane Wi-Fi
(02:42) True Anomaly raises $100 million to expand investments in space security technologies
(03:15) Blue Origin to resume New Shepard suborbital launches
(03:39) UPDATE: Yet another scrub for SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s launch of USSF-52 – SatNews
(04:09) Rocket Lab’s The Moon God Awakens launch set for December 15th – SatNews
(04:27) Scrub for one SpaceX Starlink launch and another scheduled for tomorrow of more Starlinks – SatNews
(05:05) Ovzon 3 launch targeting no earlier than December 15, 2023 – SatNews
(05:44) SmallSat Symposium update: Two new keynotes – SatNews
(06:09) AFRL’s Oracle systems family developing nation’s 1st cislunar SSA capabilities – SatNews
(06:39) NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake