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T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. You can connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn and read the paper he co-authored on launch and reentry air pollutants on Nature.com.

Selected Reading Viasat Awarded up to $568 Million IDIQ Contract from General Services Administration to Support C5ISR Capabilities for U.S. Defense Forces Redwire Awarded $45 Million Contract from Air Force Research Laboratory to Advance Enhanced Space-Based Capabilities for the Warfighter- Business Wire Aalyria selected by Defense Innovation Unit to enhance swarm connectivity for defense applications- Business Wire NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next Generation Space Weather Program Lockheed Martin’s Newest Technology Demo for Space Connectivity Is Ready for Launch Mission Success for Rocket Lab’s Latest Suborbital Hypersonic Launch Planet Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025- Business Wire Sierra Space Advances Space Domain Awareness with NVIDIA ispace and Magna Petra Agree to Future Resources Exploration on the Moon’s Surface ION-X raises €13 million to scale up to industrial production NASA Invites Media to Panama, Austria Artemis Accords Signings NASA Researchers Discover More Dark Comets

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