A rocket yule log for your holiday gathering distraction.

NASA's moving ahead with two fantastic missions potentially looking for life-supporting conditions on moons of Jupiter and Saturn, that's pretty cool. There's a startup out of France that's working on space robots with 5 arms to take out rogue spacecraft, that's wild. And if all else fails, put on your headphones and listen to the calming Yule Log video that NASA just uploaded.

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Our guest today is Clémence Poirier, Senior Cyberdefense Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich.

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Selected Reading

NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying (NASA)

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Dragonfly Mission (NASA) 

Japan's space agency halts Epsilon S rocket engine test after explosion (Reuters)

Slingshot wins $13.3M NOAA contract to support space navigation (Slingshot Aerospace) 

Hazardous Space Object Capture Startup Wins French Sim Contract (Aviation Week Network) 

Airbus to provide UK Ministry of Defence with next-generation satellite modems for Skynet milsatcoms (Satellite Evolution)

CORRECTING and REPLACING Inversion Raises $44 Million to Power On-Demand Delivery from Space (BusinessWire)

US finalizes awards to BAE Systems, Rocket Lab for semiconductor chips (Reuters) 

WA Space Week Launches $Multi-Million Satellite Plan (Mirage News)

NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace (NASA YouTube)

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