This week in space: Asteroid mining, SpaceX blows up a huge can of super-cold liquid, and what has China's new spaceplane left up in in orbit?

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Pick o' the podcasts

Spacepod: Preventable disasters

Travellers In The Night: Asteroid mining

From the video store

China's new spaceplane has left something behind in orbit - satellite spotters and radio enthusiasts are tracking it

SpaceX pressure tests SN7.1 prototype to destruction

Giant black hole M87's accretion disk seen 'wobbling'

Reading material:

Chinese company set to launch test mission for space mining technology

How much life would be needed to explain Venus' mysterious phosphine?

Comet 67/P is the first comet found with its own aurora!

Process that may have led to the first organic molecules

Earth may get a new minimoon... although it may be an old rocket stage

NASA still targeting 2024 for moon landing

Axiom space finalising agreements for private mission to the ISS

Estee Lauder to do product photoshoot on the ISS

A really space age sound system is being prepared for the shoot...

Growing commercial interest in International Space Station use

NASA delays Titan mission by a year

How NASA benefits the US economy

Cubsat mission to scout out the orbit for NASA's Lunar space station

This week in space: A possible biomarker in Venus' clouds, an experimental rocket crash, and the space between Earth and Moon is becoming a new an arena for space superiority...

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Pick o' the podcasts

Weekly Space Hangout: September 16, 2020 – Dr. Merav Opher Discusses the Shape of the Sun’s Heliosphere

Planetary Radio double header:

From the video store

Phosphine on Venus - a potential sign of life...

SpaceX's upcoming milestones 

Astra rocket's first orbital attempt crashes (but they may be making a second attempt soon) 

Deep Space 9 original cast star in an online Star Trek play (it's really good):

Reading material

Private launcher firm Rocketlabs aims to reach Venus in 2023

US satellites may get defensive escorts

Earth-moon space is may be the new arena for military space superiority: Expert opinions:

...and here's the full U.S. government report

Northrup Grumman to develop jam-resistant military satellite

Smoke from wildfires stretching across the U.S.

Amazon river from space

Artemis 3 mission may land near Apollo landing site

Dynetics to use in-space refuelling for lunar lander

This week in space: Humans to Mars conference, ride with a SpaceX rocket, NASA to buy Lunar soil, and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts

We Martians: Humans to Mars 2020 conference

From the video store

Ride up to space with a re-useable booster

Trailer for the new Dune adaptation

Take a trip around the Earth

.... and around the Moon:

Earth from space: Gulf of Kutch

Reading material:

NASA to buy Lunar soil mines by private companies

Satellite with robotic arm to launch in 2022

How do Jupiter's geometric storms form?

Osiris-Rex tracks unusual activity on asteroid Bennu

Space Force outreach emphasises protecting the space economy

ISS activates cross band FM repeater for ham radio 

Experimental Chinese re-useable spacecraft released an object before it landed

Sunspots resonate like musical instruments

Juno and the case of Jupiter's missing ammonia

U.S. to launch self-reconfiguring satellites

This week in space: China looks to longer range space weapons and launches a secretive re-useable spacecraft, a big week for SpaceX, and for SpaceLabs, AND Arianespace launches a space tug-boat on its maiden flight.....

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 Pick o' the podcasts

Time Eat The Dogs podcast: The argument against human colonies in space

From the video store

Vega rocket launches maiden flight of a small satellite tug-boat 

SpaceX launches latest batch of Starlink satellites...

...and its SN6 prototype takes flight (video courtesy of NASAspaceflight.com.

New solid fuel booster gets a ground test:

Ignition! SLS booster static fire test. Two minute test.

Earth's rotation about to get a boost. pic.twitter.com/dig2WbVHPu

— Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) September 2, 2020

SpaceLab's Electron rocket returns to flight

A non-toxic fuel that works in chemical engines and ion drives the start of all-in-one rockets?

Reading material:

China looking at advanced, long range ASAT weapons to dominate space...

...fuelling Pentagon interest in similar weapons

...and China also launches a secretive reusable space vehicle

A vehicle for moving other satellites into new orbits

Extraterrestrial amino acids found in meteorite

Upgraded telescope shows the Sun's magnetic field structure in incredible detail

Survey finds the wealthy (and not just the super-duper-wealthy) are interested in taking Virgin Galactic flights

LIGO and Virgo detectors pick up massive gravitational wave source

People getting away from pandemic worries with microgravity flights!

Hematite found on the Moon's polar regions

When a 300 meter tsunami hit Norway