{"podcast":{"title":"The Automated Daily","slug":"the-automated-daily-6466996","podcast_index_feed_id":6466996,"rss_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com","image_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/logo.jpg","author":"TrendTeller","episode_count":100,"summary":"Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Powered by cutting-edge Generative AI technology, we bring you the most crucial headlines of the day, carefully selected and delivered directly to your ears.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T02:17:22.579510+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996"},"episode":{"title":"Venus disappears behind daylight Moon & Ariane 6 flies record Kuiper - Space News (Jun 17, 2026)","slug":"venus-disappears-behind-daylight-moon-ariane-6-flies-record-kuiper-space-news-jun-17-2026","published_at":"2026-06-17T14:14:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996/venus-disappears-behind-daylight-moon-ariane-6-flies-record-kuiper-space-news-jun-17-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996","url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/episodes/2026-06-17-venus-disappears-behind-daylight-moon-ariane-6-flies-record-kuiper","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.theautomateddaily.com/audio/space/2026-06-17/en/episode.mp3","summary":"Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Venus disappears behind daylight Moon - A rare daytime lunar occultation will hide Venus behind a thin crescent Moon on June 17, 2026 for parts of North America and portions of South America. The event is one of the year’s most challenging naked-eye skywatching opportunities and is best attempted with careful, safe binocular or telescope viewing. Ariane 6 flies record Kuiper - Europe’s Ariane 6 is set to launch its heaviest payload stack ever, carrying 36 Amazon Project Kuiper broadband satellites to low Earth orbit from Kourou. The milestone underscores Europe’s return to heavy-lift commercial launches and Amazon’s push to build a rival to other LEO internet constellations. Falcon 9 launches BlueBird trio - SpaceX successfully launched and deployed three AST SpaceMobile Block 2 BlueBird satellites—BlueBird 8, 9, and 10—after a recent in-orbit loss of BlueBird 7. The mission advances efforts to deliver direct-to-smartphone connectivity from low Earth orbit. Dragon cargo departs the ISS - NASA is coordinating the departure of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft wrapping up the CRS-34 resupply mission, returning critical research samples and hardware from the International Space Station. Downmass capability is essential for turning microgravity experiments into results back on Earth. June skywatching: planets and solstice - June 2026 remai…","meta_description":"Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://ge…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":193,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-automated-daily-6466996/episodes/venus-disappears-behind-daylight-moon-ariane-6-flies-record-kuiper-space-news-jun-17-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996/venus-disappears-behind-daylight-moon-ariane-6-flies-record-kuiper-space-news-jun-17-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}