Space News for Tuesday, September 01, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top

space news stories. Enjoy!<br>(00:10) Podcast Introduction<br>(00:22) Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Dr. Diana Gamzina, Elve<br>(01:03) NorthStar Selected by European Space Agency to Lead FALCON Reentry Tracking Consortium<br>(01:43) SpaceX Petitions FCC to Block Viasat Satellite Authorization Over Starlink Interference Concerns<br>(02:20) ISRO Deploys First Geostationary Earth Imager as NavIC Constellation Operates Below Baseline Threshold<br>(02:44) Ice Island Survives Run-In With Joe Island<br>(03:31) September 2026 Satellite Puzzler<br>(04:03) Launch Preview: Array of international launches planned this week<br>(04:29) Diffraqtion Adds to Pre-Seed Round for Quantum Camera Tech<br>(05:23) Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today<br>(05:38) NASA's doomed Swift space telescope restarts science work after rescue mission fails<br>(06:17) 'No guts, no glory': How I captured NASA's Roman Space Telescope cross the sun on a picture-perfect SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch<br>(06:56) What's next for Roman Space Telescope? Here's how NASA's flagship observatory will open up the universe<br>(07:46) SpaceX, NASA delay next astronaut launch to ISS due to leak on Dragon spacecraft<br>(08:22) NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe<br>