This week in space: OSIRIS-REx is ready to head home, a meteor full of organic compounds, Rocketlabs launch 10 satellites in one launch, and loads more...

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

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The Association for Science Education

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SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

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The Space Foundation

 

Pick o' the podcasts

Space pod: Light reverberations from supermassive black holes

From the video store

Epic Aurora: 

Meteor that came down over the US is full of organic compounds

Rocket labs launches a fleet of of Earth observing satellites on one launch

What is 'the over view effect'?

Advert:

Ganges delta from orbit

Reading material:

Comet 67/P is softer than foam

ESA to aid Corona virus economic recovery using space industry

UKSA takes a (successful) stealth-em-up approach to the world space industry

New insights into Io's atmosphere

Asteroid sample mission safely stows sample

Strange 'prebiological' molecule found in Titan's atmosphere

ESA formally agrees to build a Moon-orbiting 'gateway' space station in partnership with NASA

Earth-sized free floating planet found

The gravitational wave universe opens up

Astronaut Leroy Chiao will discuss the value of the International Space Station in two online talks

Virgin Orbit to invest in Sky and Space Global

This week in space: Lunar water discovery, NASA mission snags a chunk of asteroid, Axiom Space finalises it's first private mission 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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SATRO

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The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

NASA spacecast:

Off Nominal:

Universe Today: Any Updates from Venus?

Main Engine Cut-Off: Lunar politics

From the video store:

Hot-fire of ESA's booster for it's new Ariane  6 rocket

OSIRIS-REx tags the surface of the asteroid Bennu... ...nets a significant chunk...

...and here's the messy aftermath:

NASA Weekly ISS Space to Ground Report for 16 October, 2020

SpaceX launches even more Starlink satellites 

Reading material:

'Exciting discovery' about the Moon to be announced Monday (it probably relates to lunar ice somehow)

EDIT: yes it does! Here's the Space.com story, and here's the original paper

Axiom Space finalises it's first private ISS mission...

...as the crew vote!

Lockheed Martin looks to launch missions from the Shetland isles

NASA awards contracts for lunar technologies and ice prospecting payload

Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Smaller, Closer Than First Thought

Astrobotic CubeRover Prepared For Regolith Testing

NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Land Water-Measuring Payload on the Moon

A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive

Summer is Dust Devil Time on Mars

Pluto has Snowcapped Mountains, But Why?

Optimum Technologies Selected by Northrop Grumman to Provide Protected Tactical Satcom Payload Structures

Damage form California wildfires seen from space

Space force plans big reveals on it's first anniversary

Blue origin discussing USAF certification for it's New Glenn rocket

This week in space: A record breaking trip to the ISS, the Artemis accords governing lunar exploration signed, future light sails may fly past the Sun for a boost, 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

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SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

The Space Foundation

 Pick o' the podcasts

Main Engine Cut-Off: SpaceX and L3 Harris to build missile warning satellites

We Martians: The Mars Underground

From the video store

Infrared map of Enceladus shows geologic activity in both hemisphere's

A Soyuz spacecraft makes a record breakingly fast trip to the International Space Station

Virgin Orbit aims for a second test flight by the end of this year:

Blue origin's News Shephard rocket flies a test mission for NASA Moon landing tech

China launches Gaofen-13 Earth observation satellite

Earth from Space: Laguna San Rafael National Park, Chile

Reading material:

8 nations sign the 'Artemis accords' to govern new lunar exploration...

...while China's Chang'e mission begins it's 23rd lunar day

Russia plans to launch it's own re-useable rocket in 2026

Satellite servicing company Astroscale recieve $51 million funding

The Moon's far side is the prefect spot to do SETI

Best design for a light-sail may be one that skims the Sun

'Planet' unveils 50cm resolution rapid-revisit satellite imagery

NASA selects first human-tended sub-orbital research payload

OrbitalSidekick wins $16 million U.S. Airforce contract

ENPULSION launches its new MICRO family of satellite thrusters

Bepi-Columbo passes Venus on the way to Mercury... as astronomers claim to have discovered an amino acid there

USTRANSCOM announces the next frontier for logistics in space

Lockheed Martin will complete an in-space demonstration mission using liquid hydrogen — the most challenging of the cryogenic propellants

Aerospace report on how satellite-on-satellite combat in space would pan out

This week in space: What a Biden administration might mean for NASA, ESA's new engine gets test fired, and the Moon's getting surveyed to heck...

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 cutoff: Catching up on the news

Universe Today: Could we drill for life on Mars?

Planetary Radio: What would a Biden administration mean for NASA?

From the video store:

Watch the test firing of ESA's new engine for the Ariane 6

Bepicolumbo mission to Mercury gets ready to fly past Venus

We’re gearing up for our first #BepiColomboVenusFlyby next week! Our #BepiColombo spacecraft @ESA_Bepi @JAXA_Mio & @ESA_MTM will be making a close approach at 03:58 UTC/05:58 CEST on 15 October. #StayTuned! #ExploreFarther

🎥https://t.co/MAa0QJnNv3 pic.twitter.com/yD1OifEkr9

— BepiColombo (@BepiColombo) October 7, 2020

SatFire IV experiment continues to use microgravity to better understand fires

We ignited another set of space fire experiments last week when Saffire IV lit a number of longer, stronger flames inside Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft. 🔥

Learn about our work to keep astronauts safe on future missions to the Moon and Mars: https://t.co/H8R39wfsnh pic.twitter.com/3elQGhBmNU

— NASA Glenn Research (@NASAglenn) May 20, 2020

Another 60 Starlink satellites go up, another booster lands safely - SpaceX official feed...

...and NASAspaceflight.com's view from the press area.

See the power of adaptive optics with this image of the Carina nebula's 'Western Wall'.

Our world at night, seen from the International Space Station

Reading material:

The S.S. Kalpana Chawla reaches the International Space Station (and is caught by a satellite watcher doing so)

  

A fleet of cubesats prepares to search the Moon for ices...

...and the United Arab Emirates are sending a miniature lunar rover there:

SpaceX is de-orbiting it's earliest models of Skylink satellites...

...and has been awarded a contract to develop a system of missile warning satellites... 

...and the US logistics department is studying using their tech to deliver cargo worldwide in an emergency

ISS experiment turns ammonia into water...

...while another looks to grow off-Earth radishes...

...and another investigates cancer treatments using microgravity