Space News for Thursday, September 10, 2026

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

space news stories. Enjoy!<br>(00:10) Podcast Introduction<br>(00:22) Arianespace Secures Contract for 10 Ariane 64 Launch Vehicles, Allocating Six Missions to Amazon Leo<br>(00:55) Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Courtney Sayles, Scout Space<br>(01:30) XipLink Secures $1+ Million Defense Contract for Multi-Orbit Networking in Asia<br>(02:02) ICEYE and Arianespace Execute Agreement to Evaluate Ariane 6 for Sovereign SAR Missions<br>(02:45) SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace Sign Contract for Two Alpha Launches from Esrange Space Center<br>(03:24) Dust Storm Sweeps Over Mali<br>(04:02) AnySignal Lands Spot on Apex Bus Menu<br>(04:57) Besxar Flies Suborbital Semiconductor Demo<br>(05:45) Eclipse Space Unveils Three Satellite Platforms for Constellations<br>(06:09) Watch SpaceX launch classified mission for the US Space Force today<br>(06:33) This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime<br>(07:06) Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago<br>(07:35) NASA's newly launched Roman Space Telescope will 'directly' image exoplanets. But what does that mean?<br>