{"podcast":{"title":"Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates","slug":"astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676","podcast_index_feed_id":5658676,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5648921/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.astronomydaily.io","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02745632cd7290e11e1db551f5b33f1c.jpg","author":"bitesz.com","episode_count":822,"summary":"Join hosts Anna & Avery for daily Space & Astronomy news, insights, and discoveries. Give us 10 minutes and we'll give you the Universe! For more visit, our website and sign up for the free daily newsletter and check out our continually updated newsfeed. www.astronomydaily.io . Follow us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and TikTok ...just search for AstroDailyPod . Enjoy! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates--5648921/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-18T00:17:09.380827+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676"},"episode":{"title":"Launch Eve: Starship V3 Ready for Liftoff | Lunar Laser Navigation Breakthrough | VAST Ventures into Satellites","slug":"launch-eve-starship-v3-ready-for-liftoff-lunar-laser-navigation-breakthrough-vast-ventures-into-satellites","published_at":"2026-05-20T11:25:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/launch-eve-starship-v3-ready-for-liftoff-lunar-laser-navigation-breakthrough-vast-ventures-into-satellites","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676","url":"https://www.spacenutspodcast.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/track/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72082354/launch_eve_starship_v3_ready_for_liftoff_lunar_laser_navigation_breakthrough_vast_ventures_into_satellites.mp3","summary":"Sponsor Link: To check out our great NordVPN money saving deal - Click Here Astronomy Daily • S05E107 • Wednesday 21 May 2026 Starship V3 is on the pad and counting down for Thursday's debut launch — we bring you the full update including technical objectives, the Artemis stakes, and a sober note about a worker fatality at Starbase. Plus: a NIST proposal to build GPS for the Moon using lasers inside permanently frozen polar craters; space station startup Vast enters the satellite market; JWST finally has an explanation for the universe's impossibly large early black holes; the Roman Space Telescope locks in a September 2026 launch; and interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS gives up two remarkable new secrets — alien water thirty times richer in heavy hydrogen than anything in our solar system, and pre-discovery images that show it was spotted before anyone knew it was there. Stories This Episode • STORY 1 — Starship V3 Flight 12: Launch window opens Thursday 21 May at 6:30 PM EDT (8:30 AM AEST Friday 22 May). Splashdown of upper stage in Indian Ocean off Western Australia ~65 min after liftoff. First flight of Starship V3, first use of Starbase Pad 2. Key objectives: Raptor 3 engines, heat shield imaging by modified Starlink sats, 22 dummy Starlink deployments, Raptor relight in space. Worker fatality at Starbase 15 May under OSHA investigation. • STORY 2 — Lunar GPS via NIST: Proposal to place ultrastable silicon optical cavity lasers in permanently shadowed craters near lunar south pole (~16K, near-perfect vacuum). Could enable lunar GPS network, atomic timekeeping on Moon, precise satellite ranging, gravitational wave detection. • STORY 3 — Vast Corporation: Space station builder announces new line of high-power satellites, expanding beyond Haven-1 into commercial satellite m…","meta_description":"Sponsor Link: To check out our great NordVPN money saving deal - Click Here Astronomy Daily • S05E107 • Wednesday 21 May 2026 Starship V3 is on the pad an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1208,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/launch-eve-starship-v3-ready-for-liftoff-lunar-laser-navigation-breakthrough-vast-ventures-into-satellites/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/launch-eve-starship-v3-ready-for-liftoff-lunar-laser-navigation-breakthrough-vast-ventures-into-satellites.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}