{"podcast":{"title":"The Automated Daily - Space News Edition","slug":"the-automated-daily-space-news-edition-7305666","podcast_index_feed_id":7305666,"rss_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/space/feed.xml","website_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com","image_url":"https://cdn.theautomateddaily.com/static/edition-logos/space.jpg","author":"TrendTeller","episode_count":100,"summary":"Welcome to 'The Automated Daily - Space News Edition', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T02:17:26.180585+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-space-news-edition-7305666"},"episode":{"title":"Skyroot Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit & Hayabusa2 Maps Binary Asteroid - Space News (Jul 19, 2026)","slug":"skyroot-vikram-1-reaches-orbit-hayabusa2-maps-binary-asteroid-space-news-jul-19-2026","published_at":"2026-07-19T13:37:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-space-news-edition-7305666/skyroot-vikram-1-reaches-orbit-hayabusa2-maps-binary-asteroid-space-news-jul-19-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-space-news-edition-7305666","url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/episodes/2026-07-19-skyroot-vikram-1-reaches-orbit-hayabusa2-maps-binary-asteroid","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.theautomateddaily.com/audio/space/2026-07-19/en/episode.mp3","summary":"Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Skyroot Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit - Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1, the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit. The milestone expands India's commercial launch capabilities and reshapes competition in the small satellite market. Hayabusa2 Maps Binary Asteroid - Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft pulled off an ultra-close flyby of asteroid Torifune and revealed it to be a contact binary. The observations offer fresh clues about rubble-pile asteroids, collision history, and future small-body mission design. Comet Tempel 2 Knife-Edge - Comet 10P/Tempel 2 has entered a dramatic knife-edge phase as Earth crosses its orbital plane. The geometry is sharpening the comet's tail and giving astronomers and skywatchers a prime chance to study dust dynamics in real time. Exoplanets Redefine Habitability Frontiers - Astronomers reported the first robust detection of an atmosphere around a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet, LHS 1140 b, while also highlighting the faint giant Beta Pictoris d and renewed interest in Hycean worlds. Together, these discoveries are widening the search for life and improving direct imaging methods. Black Holes, Dark Matter, Outreach - New research uncovered a stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri and used giant planets as dark matter detectors, while public events and workshops kept space science connected to wider audience…","meta_description":"Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron - KrispCall: Agentic C…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":241,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-automated-daily-space-news-edition-7305666/episodes/skyroot-vikram-1-reaches-orbit-hayabusa2-maps-binary-asteroid-space-news-jul-19-2026/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-space-news-edition-7305666/skyroot-vikram-1-reaches-orbit-hayabusa2-maps-binary-asteroid-space-news-jul-19-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}