This week, off world: Ex-astronaut on working with Russia in space as the Ukraine conflict rages, India lands on the Moon, build your own recieving station for satellite signals, and loads more....

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See India's Chandrayaan-3 lander descend to moon's surface in amazing time-lapse

....and its rover sets out to explore the lunar plains:

The Chandrayaan-3 lander observed by the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

Blastoff! Rocket Lab reuses rocket engine for first time

Progress MS-24 launch

SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea | Space

Long March-4C launches Gaofen-12 04

Satellites watch Hurricane Hilary swirl above the Pacific (video) | Space

The Carrington Event:

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Bizarre new cosmic object is the most magnetic star in the universe (msn.com)

Perseverance Mars rover spies big sunspot (photos) | Space

Chris Kemp unplugged—Astra’s CEO dishes on the space company’s struggles | Ars Technica

Build your own weather satellite receiving station - Raspberry Pi

Ukraine: The Latest - Former Nasa astronaut on working with Russia in space (msn.com)

Japanese SAR company iQPS to launch with Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit bankruptcy - SpaceNews

Poland signs agreement to fly astronaut on Axiom Space ISS mission - SpaceNews

Gravitational wave detectors on the moon could be more sensitive than those on Earth | Space

India's Chandrayaan-3 images far side of moon ahead of landing | Space

Redwire and Sierra Space partner on commercial space station biotech research platform - SpaceNews

This week, off world: Russia returns to the Moon, Hawaiian fires tracked by satellite, Starlink photobombs the Perseids and loads more

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Starlink photobombs the Perseids:

Luna-25’s first image of the Moon 

Long March-3B launches L-SAR4 01

Three back-to-back Starlink missions to cross 5,000 Starlink satellites launched - NASASpaceFlight.com

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Deadly wildfires in Hawaii seen from International Space Station (photo) | Space

Russia's Luna-25 moon lander reaches lunar orbit | Space

These 3 teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space ... and won big cash prizes | Space

Exoplanets in Trappist-1 system may be more habitable than previously thought, new study suggests | Space

Scientists get a new look inside the Moon | Astronomy.com

NRO to select providers of new forms of optical satellite imagery - SpaceNews

100-year 'megastorms' on Saturn shower the ringed planet in ammonia rain (msn.com)

AST SpaceMobile fully funds first five commercial direct-to-device satellites - SpaceNews

This week, off world: Life's chemistry in meteorites, Russia's first lunar mission for 25 years and loads more...

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Luna 25: the first Russian spacecraft in 47 years heading to the moon - NASASpaceFlight.com

...and what is it all about?

Virgin Galactic launches its second private spaceflight:

A Bronze Age Arrowhead was Made Out of a Meteorite - Universe Today

Longshot targets $10/kg launch costs with Nazi uber-cannon on steroids (newatlas.com)

Amazing moon views captured by Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft during orbit insertion

Reading material:

Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars (phys.org)

How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare - Hindustan Times

NASA Is Helping Private Companies Build a Business on the Moon (businessinsider.com)

DNA And RNA Bases, "Missing" Building Blocks Of Life On Earth, Found On Meteorites | IFLScience

 

Satellite operators poised for $9 billion payday after clearing C-band spectrum | Ars Technica

Trans-Atlantic joint venture aims to build new “international” space station | Ars Technica

India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander arrives in lunar orbit - SpaceNews

NASA and Axiom Space sign-on for 4th private astronaut mission to space station (msn.com)

Some Metal Meteorites Have a Tiny Magnetic Field. But How? - Universe Today

Managing space debris: Isro de-orbits last stage of PSLV-C56 | India News - Times of India (indiatimes.com)

Busek lauds on-orbit performance of OneWeb's Hall-effect thrusters - SpaceNews

This week, off world: War in space from WW2 to today, launching rockets with electricity, and loads more...

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 72 — Newspace Careers with Rick Jenet

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Antares 230+ farewell launch flying S.S. Laurel Clark to ISS - NASASpaceFlight.com

NASA spacecraft's flyby of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is stunning!

PSLV-CA launches DS-SAR and 6 small satellites

ESA - Space Rider enters phase D for drop tests

Falcon Heavy sends Jupiter-3 broadband giant toward geostationary orbit - SpaceNews

The ISS imaged with a small telescope: 

Reading material:

Momentus completes payload deployment from vigoride-6 mission (spacedaily.com)

Could Aging Wine Become The First Major Space Manufacturing Business? - Universe Today

gravityLab wants to tackle the artificial gravity problem | TechCrunch

Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy | Space

UK spaceport unearths a Bronze Age surprise ahead of 1st rocket launches | Space

New satellite will beam back wild X-rays from huge objects in space | Space

The Kent scientists who collect cosmic dust from cathedral roofs (msn.com)

Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission | Space