Space News for Thursday, July 16, 2026
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This episode summarizes the top space news stories for July 16, 2026.
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:23) Swissto12 raises $70 million to accelerate small GEO satellite production (01:18) Space Force awards Slingshot $69 million for AI-enabled training technology (02:10) Commercial Space Federation Launches State and Local Council to Align States on National Space Capacity and Strengthen the U.S. Industrial Base (02:56) Startup working with University of Texas focuses on trapping small debris (03:23) SpaceX to deploy first Starlink V3 satellites on suborbital Starship-Super Heavy flight (03:41) NASA Details Docking and Software Protocols for Revised Artemis III LEO Demonstration (04:10) Frontier Airlines and Indigo Partners Select Starlink for Multi-Airline Inflight Connectivity (04:50) Gilat Satellite Networks Secures $20 Million SkyEdge Ground Segment Order (05:09) Keysight and Sateliot Secure ESA Award for Blockchain-Anchored 5G NTN Security (05:50) Space Development Agency Awards $1.75 Billion for 36 Additional Missile-Tracking Satellites (06:13) Ontario Wildfire Smoke Moves East (07:05) NASA Uses Subscale Aircraft to Accelerate Flight Innovation (07:20) NASA…
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