This week, off world: A close up of Mars' moon Deimos, private missions are on the Moon and loads more...

    

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Pick o' the podcasts:

From the video store:

Blue Ghost Has Been Very Busy On The Moon's Surface:

See Firefly's Blue Ghost moon lander drill, vacuum and deploy electrodes:

Firefly's Blue Ghost moon landing captured with NASA stereo cameras:

Remarkable Footage of Solar Eclipse from Moon's surface by Blue Ghost lunar lander:

Totality! Moon turns blood red in this lunar eclipse time-lapse:

New Images Show The Athena Lunar Lander In A Crater:

Rocket Lab’s Commercial Solution to Mars Sample Return:

W-2 (In-Space Manufacturing) Reentry: Capsule View (9 minutes):

Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)

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Reading material:

European space giants unite to challenge Musk's dominance

Multi-orbit operators highlight growth outside Starlink’s spotlight - SpaceNews

German military could launch intelligence satellites from Scotland

UAE Space Agency completes critical design review for Emirates Mission to Asteroid Belt

Argotec announces modular satellite platform - SpaceNews

Join or die: How satellite manufacturers approach competition with SpaceX - SpaceNews

ESA lays foundations for the future of data transmission - SpaceNews

RBC Signals adds 10 antennas to global ground-station network - SpaceNews