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Friday, 13 September 2024

This week, off world: The first privately funded spacewalk, hurricane Francine seen from satellites and loads more...

 An appeal for a friend of mine, suffering a serious medical condition and financial problems all at once: 



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:


 






From the video store:


Polaris dawn launch:


...and apogee - the furthest humans have been from Earth's surface since the Apollo era....


... then the first spacewalk by privately funded astronauts...

...and then a Polaris Dawn astronaut plays 'Star Wars' song in music video beamed from space (video) | Space:


Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotted on another star:


Landspace completes 10-kilometer reusable rocket test, eyes 2025 orbital launch - SpaceNews


Soyuz MS-26 launch:


Falcon 9 launches BlueBird 1-5 and Falcon 9 first stage landing:


... and deployment:


ESA's Bepicolombo space probe passes Mercury:


SpaceX sends up more Starlinks! 


Satellites watch Hurricane Francine make landfall as a Category 2 storm in Louisiana (video) | Space



Starliner astronauts talk about being 'stranded' on the ISS:



Reading material:


New record! 19 people are orbiting Earth right now | Space


Astroscale and ClearSpace get funds to advance double satellite de-orbit mission  - SpaceNews


The invisible battle for space dominance - SpaceNews


U.S. space weather policy is alive and well but is insufficiently funded - SpaceNews








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