This week, off world: SpaceX booster crashes, Blue Origin returns to flight, India to launch crew capsule test flight and loads more...

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

...and here is (one) place you can donate to help children in Afghanistan, caught under the Taliban.

    

  Pick o' the podcasts:

 

ADVERT

From the video store:

Timelapse of Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby

Blue Origin flies NASA-funded scientist and space tourists on New Shepard suborbital flight - SpaceNews

Chinese astronauts conduct experiments and maintenance on Tiangong space station 

Ceres-1S launches six satellites 

I'll be honest: It's almost a relief to see one of these go wrong at last - it was getting a bit unnerving. SpaceX Starlink 188 launch and Falcon 9 first stage failed landing, 28 August 2024

Reading material:

Spaceport Cornwall announces ambitious future aerospace plans (msn.com)

Fallout from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth — potentially triggering 1st human-caused meteor shower (msn.com)

Or, alternatively...

No, NASA's DART asteroid impact probably won't spark meteor showers on Earth — but maybe on Mars | Space

India to launch Gaganyaan crew capsule test flight by end of 2024 | Space

Hungary for space: 4iG seeks vertically integrated capabilities - SpaceNews

U.S. military space domain awareness lags behind expectations - SpaceNews

Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander begins pre-launch environmental tests - SpaceNews