Space News for Tuesday, July 21, 2026
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This episode summarizes the top space news stories for July 21, 2026.
In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy! (00:10) Podcast Introduction (00:23) Italian startup ORiS raises funding for laser power-beaming technology (01:08) Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy (01:44) AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round (02:08) SpaceX suffers rare, last-second Falcon 9 rocket launch abort (02:45) Commercial Launch Providers Advance Next-Generation Heavy and Medium-Lift Vehicle Milestones Ahead of 2026 Debuts (03:07) SSPI Launches Collateral Risk Series Addressing Civil Spillover in Contested Space Domains (03:24) ThinKom GT2517 Terminal Achieves SES Government Technology Certification for O3b mPOWER Operation (03:59) Avealto Opens $50 Million Funding Round to Launch Stratospheric Broadband Production (04:30) NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station (05:05) NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration (05:47) From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet (06:14) Launch Preview: Falcon 9, Starship, and Chinese rockets scheduled to launch (06:30) Skyroot Aerospace Reaches Orbit with…
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