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.

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Black and British Professionals in STEM

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The Association for Science Education

The Smallpiece Trust

SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

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.