This week, off world: Spacecraft track a massive solar storm, the ISS tracks tropical cyclone Freddy, and loads more...

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 ...and where you can donate to support victims of the recent quake in Syria and Turkey (dec.org.uk) 

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These Rocks Did Something We Were Not Expecting | 1st Year Perseverance Supercut

Sun blasts powerful X2-class solar flare, spacecraft sees it

See the eye of tropical cyclone Freddy in amazing view from space station

SpaceX launches Inmarsat I-6 F2 on 12th mission of 2023 - NASASpaceFlight.com

Phoenix 1B Hybrid Sounding Rocket Campaign - 2021

China launches high-capacity communications satellite after 39-day pause - SpaceNews

Zaragoza, Spain: Earth From Space

Introducing the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem:

Reading material:

Northern Territory, Australia As Seen By Sentinel-2 - SpaceRef

Blue Origin makes solar cells from simulated moon dirt with 'alchemist' | Space

The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist | Space

Astronomers Find a Group of Water-rich Asteroids - Universe Today

Astronomers target dark side of the Moon in search for alien life (msn.com)

New auroras detected on Jupiter's four largest moons | Space 

Rare red auroras explode over northern US and Europe (photos) | Space

On National Security | A coming of age for commercial satellite imagery - SpaceNews

ESA, China conduct spacecraft-rocket integration tests but joint science mission delayed to 2025 - SpaceNews

Space Force considers public-private partnerships to respond to crises - SpaceNews

Deep space smallsats face big challenges - SpaceNews

BeetleSat Successfully Deploys LEO Satellite Expandable Antenna in Space - SpaceRef

Capella Space Announces Industry-First Analytics Partner Program to Accelerate Access to Earth Observation Insights - SpaceRef

Dynamic NASA-Built Weather Sensors Enlisted to Track Tropical Cyclones - SpaceRef

This week, off world: Are ion engines the future of space exploration & industry? Plus the Sun roars out flares and CME storms and loads more...

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims... 

 ...and where you can donate to support victims of the recent quake in Syria and Turkey (dec.org.uk) 

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205: The moon's right to exist with Dr. Prem — Spacepod (listentospacepod.com)

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SpaceX Starlink 73 launch & Falcon 9 first stage landing

Ion Thrusters Are the Future. How Far Away Are They?

See an X1-class solar flare in this close-up view from NASA's IRIS mission

NASA launches pair of suborbital sounding rockets to the mesosphere

Studying forest biomass from space

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Europe approves multi-orbit connectivity constellation plan - SpaceNews

International consortium develops a crucial technology to ensure future deep space missions, asteroid deflection and mining - SpaceRef

Intuitive Machines rings Nasdaq bell on path to private moon landing | Space

First Global Image From NOAA-21’s CrIS Instrument - SpaceRef

Chelyabinsk meteor explosion was a planetary defense wakeup call | Space

Perfectly symmetrical space explosion “makes no sense’’, say physicists (msn.com)

Astronomers unravel how complex organic molecules form in deep space | Space

Meteorite found! Space rock from fireball over Europe located | Space

Chinese rocket firm Space Pioneer set for first launch - SpaceNews

Analyst: U.S. military space budget likely to get another boost in 2024 - SpaceNews

Lunar Resources and Wood Selected by NASA to Study Building a Pipeline on the Moon - SpaceRef

Virgin Orbit Update on UK Mission Anomaly - SpaceRef

Rocket Lab Increases Space Systems Offerings with New Products for Small Satellites - SpaceRef

Maxar Secures Dedicated Access to Umbra’s SAR Constellation - SpaceRef

Upsurge In Rocket Launches Could Impact The Ozone Layer - SpaceRef

This week, off world: 'Strange' Russian satellite explodes in a cloud of hazardous debris, Taikonauts spacewalk, epic test of SpaceX's Starship rocket and loads more...

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Shenzhou-15 astronauts complete first spacewalk

ISRO Scripts History: Launch Vehicle SSLV D2 Successfully Places 3 Small Satellites In Orbit (msn.com)

Juice’s odyssey of exploration

Curiosity discovers evidence of water on ancient Mars with ripples and landslide debris

SpaceX launches Hispasat's Amazonas Nexus satellite - NASASpaceFlight.com

Proton-M launches Elektro-L No.4

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Watch the Latest Water Satellite Unfold Itself in Space – NASA SWOT

SLS RS-25 Engine Test, 8 February 2023

Progress MS-22 launch

Why the US military made GPS free to use:

SpaceX's huge Starship booster conducts epic 31-engine burn | Space

Reading material:

Maxar receives $192 million contract to supply imagery to U.S. allies - SpaceNews

NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR)

Exotrail raises $58 million to expand space logistics services - SpaceNews

Relativity Space stacks 3D-printed rocket on launch pad | Space

‘Strange’ Russian satellite blows up into cloud of debris – report (msn.com)

ESA successfully unfurls sail to drag spacecraft out of orbit | Space

Tiny NASA moon probe can't reach lunar orbit as planned | Space

A mysterious ring surrounding mini-planet Quaoar puzzles astronomers | Space

SpaceX restricted Ukraine's use of Starlink internet with drones | Space

NASA's CAPSTONE moon probe bounces back from communications glitch | Space

This week, off world: Exploring the 4 billion year old dark of the moon's poles, how to build a satellite, and loads more...

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Exploring the Moon's permanently shadowed regions with "ShadowCam"

SpaceX launches 53 Starlinks on 200th Falcon 9 rocket flight | Space

A lesson in how to build a satellite:

See Comet 96P/Macholz's stunning sun flyby in multiple spacecraft views 

Boom! Sierra Space blows up inflatable habitat...and building housing it!

Mars helicopter Ingenuity flies for the 41st time

SpaceX launches first flight of cross-country Starlink doubleheader - NASASpaceFlight.com

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Exotic_atoms - because the periodic table was just too dang cramped....

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Kolkata, India As Seen From Space By Copernicus Sentinel-2 - SpaceRef

Cubesat launched by SpaceX will test water-based propulsion | Space

Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night, A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon - Universe Today

SpaceX to launch satellites designed specifically for space combat

Space Force chief: Satellites are under threat, ‘we have to be ready’ - SpaceNews

South Korea picks Vega C to launch satellite grounded by Russian sanctions - SpaceNews

Space Development Agency issues draft solicitation for 72 satellites - SpaceNews

'Worst-Case Scenario' Space Junk Collision Barely Avoided (msn.com)

Machine learning spots 8 potential technosignatures | Space

The James Webb Space Telescope gets its own micrometeoroid forecast — here's how | Space

New satellite to police carbon dioxide emitters from space | Space