This week in space: SN11 gets ready to fly, how to explore craters of eternal darkness and new species living on the ISS...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Spacepod 183: The solar wind with Dr. JianHangout

Weekly Space Hangout and Q&A.

 

Planetary Radio:

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From the video store:

Starship SN11 waits new launch date - Super Heavy BN1 rollout to follow - NASASpaceFlight.com

Falcon 9 Starlink v1.0 L22 launches from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 - NASASpaceFlight.com

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Unexpected 'scratching' noise recorded on Perseverance rover

Getting Ingenuity the Mars helicopter ready to fly

Clouds over Curiosity rover:

Soyuz rocket launches 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit for modified satellite internet constellation | Space

How dangerous are Earth's radiation belts?

Reading material:

Astroscale space debris removal demo set for launch - BBC News

NASA likely to stay the course to the moon under Bill Nelson, if confirmed | Space

Scientists want to build a huge underground ‘Doomsday vault’ on the Moon (msn.com)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot may subsist by gobbling up smaller storms | Space

ASU scientists make new proposal for origin of strange interstellar object

Does Triton's ice cap reveal internal heat and an ocean?

Triton may have been geologically active for billions of years

Three entirely new lifeforms discovered on space station (msn.com)

Mars helicopter Ingenuity carries piece of Wright brothers' famous plane | Space

A Very Powerful Solar Storm Hit the Earth Back in 1582 - Universe Today

Exploring the Moon's Shadowed Regions Using Beamed Energy - Universe Today