Weekly Space News Roundup for 18th April 2021

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In Today’s Episode:

Gravity Challenge 03 opens for industry submissions;

The international community celebrates Human Spaceflight Day;

Lockheed Martin bulk buys rocket launches including from Scotland;

Glasgow’s Alba Orbital complete an historic fundraising round with Y Combinator;

Northrop Grumman dock to a live satellite in Geo for the second time in history;

The Industry gears up for the 2021 Space-Comm Expo and;

Giant-Leap releases our latest documentary asking if Disney Engineers are making Astronauts Obsolete.

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