Space News for Thursday, September 03, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top space news stories. Enjoy!
(00:10) Podcast Introduction
(00:23) Munich Startup Project-S Emerges from Stealth with Multi-Million-Euro Funding for Orbital Safety Infrastructure
(00:50) Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Col. Eric Zarybnisky, U.S. Space Force
(01:28) Portnoy Law Firm Files Investor Class Action Against York Space Systems Over Defense Contract Allegations
(01:57) Mobile Satellite Services Association Releases Reference Architecture 2.0 for Regenerative NTN Payloads
(02:28) Peatland Fires Darken Skies in Indonesia
(02:53) NASA Revamps Challenge Linking Community College Studies to Aerospace Careers
(03:46) Rising Over Louisiana
(04:22) York Space Systems Unveils New VLEO Sat Platform
(04:37) Astroscale Selects Isar to Launch Debris Removal Mission
(05:18) Astronomers discover mysterious 10-sided cloud structure at Saturn's south pole
(05:57) China's private, reusable Pallas-1 rocket aces debut launch (video)
(06:14) Blue Origin wins $700 million contract to build NASA's next Mars orbiter
(06:56) Supermassive black holes 'too big' for the early universe may not be so massive after all