In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with John Mackey, CEO, co-founder and director of Mbryonics.

First the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission separated from its launcher on 7 October 2024, next its lengthy ‘cruise phase’ began – the car-sized spacecraft’s journey through millions of kilometres of nothingness to converge on its rocky destination. 

The spacecraft is designed to inspect, track and maneuver around satellites in geostationary orbit

Virgin Galactic says it will not start commercial flights of its new suborbital spaceplane until early 2027, a delay of a few months.

A $28 million contract expansion adds Victus Salo 2 and 3 to an earlier award for responsive-space missions

Gen. Stephen Whiting said there is a demand for offensive capabilities and called on the industry to develop ways to disable the critical nodes of large satellite constellations

The Golden Dome ‘ecosystem hub’ allows companies to request information and submit ideas

[English] Experience a musical simulation of the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse as seen from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (Spain). Click here for information about ESA’s live broadcast from this observatory, or visit esa.int/solareclipse for an overview of all ESA eclipse activities & resources. 

This is a ‘musification’ – an artistic interpretation of a set of data. In this case, the eclipse determines when and how much of each sound is heard. The music is simply the way those data are presented.

This musification is a collaboration ESA’s CESAR team and Rubén García Benito from the Instituto