In space this week: Why has the UK government acquired OneWeb? Plus, Russia tests what may be a satellite weapon, current volcanoes on Venus, 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

Skeptoid media

The Association for Science Education

The Smallpiece Trust

SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts

 

Main Engine Cut-Off...

1: An interview with 

Laura Klicker and Daniel Gillies from Astrobotic

2: Caleb Henry on the OneWeb Acquisition, Starlink Antennas, C-Band Drama, and More

From the video store:

Utah's Great Salt Lake from space

The turning Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Things you're not allowed to do in space 

Bay of Naples from space

Reading material

Russia appears to test a satellite based weapon in space...

...but insists the truth is being distorted

Start-up 'Astra' aims to reach orbit in August

Dark green, hard, 'gel like' substance found on the Moon was created by intense heat

Venus has present-day volcanism

Earth could have gotten its water from falling organic matter

A new type of space service set to launch: Orbital transfer vehicles for small satellites 

Satellites catch illegal fishing

Planets orbiting a young Sun-like star imaged

This week in space news: Ten years of the Sun's activity, BAME scientists and engineers, comet NEOWISE 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

Skeptoid media

The Association for Science Education

The Smallpiece Trust

SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

Main Engine cut-off: An Announcement, and a Check-in on International Space Policy and NSSL Phase 2

Planetary Radio double header:

From the Video store:

New animated Star Trek series...

Massive Saharan dust plume crosses the Atlantic...

Ten years of the Sun in 1 hour

Earth from space: Utah's great salt lake

Reading material:

BAME physicists and engineers: An underappreciated legacy

Space rocket company are looking for 170 staff for their new Fife engine test complex

Independent study says the U.S.A.F should support three launch providers

Country sized mini-flares on the Sun

The moon is younger than we thought

Comet NEOWISE stuns astronomers

NASA teases VERITAS, a mission to Venus

Shooting Star: An un-crewed orbital outpost

Motors developed for ISS improve prosthetic limbs

Siberian fires seen filling air with smoke

This week in space news: The Bermuda triangle of space, the Summer of Mars, SpaceX's starship rocket readies for first flight, 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:

Skeptoid media

The Association for Science Education

The Smallpiece Trust

SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

We Martians: Summer of Mars

Spacepod: How NASA funding works

365 Days of Astronomy: What's so cool about the Trappist-1 system? 

From the video store:

Where is the missing light matter?

Not all orbits are around planets: Water drops orbiting a charged knitting needle.

Virgin Galactic cabin reveal... trailer 

Dr Becky on Saturn's moon Hyperion:

China launches APSTAR-6D telecommunications satellite

SpaceX's Starship Readies for Static Fire and First Flight

Rocketlab's Electron Rocket Fails on 13th Launch

We Persevere

Maldives from space

Reading material:

Earth's magnetic field is changing more rapidly than we thought

Geologists use satellite data to identify massive ore deposits

How the get SSTV from the International Space Station

5 things spy satellites taught us

Strange radio circles found in deep space

Earth's magnetic field may be changing faster than we thought

Spot comet NEOWISE this month

Have we finally understood the 'Bermuda Triangle' of Earth orbit?

This week in space news: An asteroid strike definitely whacked the dinosaurs, International Space Station crosses the Sun, a gap in the universe 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:

Skeptoid media

The Association for Science Education

The Smallpiece Trust

SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

Planetary Radio: A trillion dollar space economy?

Weekly space hangout:

 

Main Engine Cut Off: Grant Bonin, SVP of Business Development at Spaceflight

Main Engine Cut Off: Suborbital Crew, Virgin Galactic to ISS

Off Nominal: OG LIGO

From the video store:

Korolev crater on Mars, full of ice...

International Space Station crosses the Sun

Strange galaxy...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches an improved GPS satellite

A map of the nearest 'gap in the universe'...

...how it came to be...

...and what it tells us about the universe.

Reading material:

An asteroid strike definitely whacked the dinosaurs

Massive, ancient magnetic fields permeate the universe

The man buried on the Moon...

UK government invests £200 million in OneWeb

Tiny, simple, rovers to open up the Moon

Satellites flying in front of the Sun

Tips on taking pictures of satellites and spacecraft