On The Space Show for Wednesday, 12 October 2022:

Speaking at the Final Frontier Festival at Melbourne University, space historian Kerrie Dougherty (@KerrieDougherty) asks the question: “What’s space ever done for me?”

China’s involvement in the space field across the African continent. 

BlueWalker 3 by AST SpaceMobile: A revolution in mobile telephony. 

Space Show News:

• NASA confirms that the DART impact successfully changed the period of Dimorphos’ orbit around its companion asteroid Didymos
• An update on some of the 152 cubesat missions launched by NASA since 2016
• NASA and SpaceX to Study Hubble Telescope Reboost Possibility