In space over Christmas: SpaceX launches classified NRO mission, building your own rocket, commercial airlock opens on the ISS, and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Main Engine Cut-Off: NASA VCLS 2, Relativity, Astra, and Firefly....

We Martians: Lunar Science's Next Giant Leap...

From the video store:

Christmas message from the ISS:

SpaceX ends the year with a classified launch for the NRO:

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A recap of Starship SN8's (sort-of) successful test flight:

And at the other end of the spectrum: Building your own rocket:

Looking for New Year's boardgames? Here are a few intriguing suggestions... 

Reading material:

Point to point suborbital space travel...

Possibility of alien technology not yet ruled out for Proxima Centauri signal

The ISS now has the first ever commercial airlock

Firefly Aerospace Announces Multi-Launch Agreement with Adaptive Launch Solutions

...and their debut Alpha launch is set to demonstrate Space Electric Thruster System

Chang'e 5 spacecraft heads back out into space on a new mission

 

Dealing with moon dust

China to launch core module of space station in first half of 2021

Capella Space unveil super-sharp radar images from space

Mars might be geologically active - today.

This week in space: Chang'e 5 returns samples from the Moon, Russia launches a huge new rocket, dark matter theory may have a challenger and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Main engine cut-off: The flight of starship SN8

From the video store:

Russia's new, gigantic, Angara A5 rocket launches:

SpaceX launches the SiriusXM satellite

Astra's tiny rocket makes it to space 

Large meteorites over the Popecatepetl volcano... 

...and over Norway

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Chang'e 5 sample return capsule recovered. 

The mind melting scale of voids and supervoids

Arianespace launches 36 more satellites for the OneWeb satellite internet constellation

Earth from space: Lapland

Reading material:

ESA begins working on a re-useable rocket booster

If we use the Sun's gravity as lens, this is the view we'd get of a planet around the nearest star

Canada to send people to the Moon

Saturn and Jupiter to align over Christmas

Gas filament 50 million light years long discovered

Could modified gravity challenge dark matter theory to explain how our universe behaves?

New engine test facility to help build UK's future in space

Blue Origin's New Glen booster to compete for government contracts

This week in space: Something happened with SpaceX I believe? Hayabusa 2's asteroid sample lands in Australia, VG aborts its first spaceflight attempt from New Mexico, and loads more...

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

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Pick o' the podcasts:

We Martians: H.A.L.O

Spacepod: Not Just a Telescope

Are We There Yet? The Big Business of Small Satellites

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Well, that escalated quickly: Starship has a successful first flight... and stacks the landing (spectacularly)

Blast from the past: Watch ISS astronauts work outside the space station

Top secret NROL 44 intelligence satellite launches:

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Virgin Galactic aborts first spaceflight from New Mexico

Earth from Space: Kyiv, Ukraine

Reading material:

Starliner completes parachute tests

NASA to commercialize near-Earth communications

TriSept selects Relativity Space for full launch mission aboard Terran 1

National team submits Lunar proposal To NASA

NASA, US, European Partner Satellite Returns First Sea Level Measurements

'Dog kennel' satellite returns first ocean observations

Europe's first orbital space plane gets the go-ahead

This week in space: Hayabusa 2 drops its sample return capsule off in Australia, Chang'e 5 captures samples of the Moon, satellite spotters track the mysterious NROL 101 satellite and loads more...

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Universe Today: What if our galaxy's central black hole became a quasar?

Main Engine Cut-Off: Delays, Delays...

From the video store:

China touches down on the Moon, drills for samples, and returns them to orbiting mothership - but suspends live broadcast of landing, causing confusion:

Landing...

...collecting samples...

...sealing samples...

...returning to space...

...docking with the mothership and sample transfer...

Arainespace and Roscosmos launch Falconeye 1 Earth observing satellite

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Soyuz 2’s 110th mission launches three civilian communication satellites

The Sun and the solar wind over decades:

Hayabusa 2's sample return capsule lands in Australia, carrying samples of asteroid rock.

Reading material:

Satellite spotters track mysterious NROL 101 satellite 

Aeveum space reveals highly responsive, fast turnaround, smallest launcher

Comets contain all the chemical ingredients for life

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots China's Chang'e 5 lander from space 

This week in space: Chinese probe enters lunar orbit, the Universe is set out (a bit) like a brain, a new era begins ofr the ISS and loads more

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

Want to support the future of science and engineering? You can do so through one of these charities:

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The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

Main Engine Cutoff: A New Era for the ISS

Weekly Space Hangout

From the video store:

China launches the first sample return mission to the Moon for decades -  and it's just entered Lunar orbit

Space-Junk clean up mission will test using a net to capture debris

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SpaceX test fires it's SN8 prototype super rocket

Watch the 'cosmic web' of the universe form in simulation

Reading material:

Rocket labs recovers a first stage booster for the first time

How is the Universe like a brain?

3D rocket printing company Relativity Space raises $500 million to accelerate it's plans

Brown Dwarf spotted with radio telescope

One of life's building blocks can form in deep space, no star or planet needed

Martian dust storms devastated the planet, removed it's water

Europa's geysers might be from near-surface lakes

First large sunspot of the new sunspot cycle

Greening the Earth may mitigate surface warming

Growing radish plants in orbit

A hint of new physics in the early universe?

Defects in a mitochondria may explain health problems during space travel

Fabric on the ISS' hull listens for space dust strikes

This week in space: Yes, there is phosphine on Venus (maybe not as much though), Space Station Guys photographing the ISS from the ground, massive fireball over Australia and loads more...

 Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

Want to support the future of science and engineering? You can do so through one of these charities:

Black and British Professionals in STEM

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The Association for Science Education

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The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

We Martians: Equitable Design (feat. Kavya Manyapu)

Deep Space Update: Vega & Starship Failures, Operation Stellar Lancer and Baby Yoda on the ISS

Weekly Space Hangout: November 18, 2020 – Dr. Ralph Lorenz, Planetary Scientist and Dragonfly Mission Architect

Planetary Radio:

 

From the video store:

RocketLabs launch 30 satellites in one go, recovers their 1st stage booster

SpaceX launches crew to the ISS

(and seen from the ground in one long shot)

...and they dock in record time:

Sentinel 6 satellite launches to monitor sea levels

Why rocket exhausts look the way they do:

Starship Test Destroys Raptor Engine, But Burst Disc Saves Rest Of Vehicle

Australian ship catches massive fireball entering our atmosphere

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The Space Station Guys making stunning images of the International Space Station from the ground

Vandenberg air force base, seen from space

ISS Space to ground report 20/11/2020

Reading material:

ESA launches inquiry into catastrophic Vega rocket failure

Multi-purpose nano-satellites being built in Glasgow

'Ultimate telescope' proposed for the Moon

Debate rages around the presence of phosphine in Venus atmosphere - but the evidence holds up (for now)

ISS cosmonauts go spacewalking to ready the station for a new extension.