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Friday 4 September 2020

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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The Space Foundation 


 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...


New solid fuel booster gets a ground test:


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












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