This week in space: William Shatner in space, launches to begin from Scotland next year, and the first in-space manufacturing satellite...

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Fake it until you make it! William Shatner, AKA Captain Kirk, flies into space:

NASA, ULA launch historic Lucy mission - NASASpaceFlight.com

Shenzhou 13 launches first long-duration Chinese Space Station crew - NASASpaceFlight.com

Earth from Space - New Delhi, India - SpaceRef

OneWeb deployment reaches halfway point with Soyuz 2.1b launch - NASASpaceFlight.com

An interview with Virgin Orbit

Reading material:

You Can Blow Up an Asteroid Just a few Months Before it Hits Earth and Prevent 99% of the Damage - Universe Today

Space launches from Scotland to begin in 2022

Starliner valve investigation continues to focus on moisture interaction with propellant - SpaceNews

Varda Space selects SpaceX for launch of first space manufacturing satellite - SpaceNews

Soyuz returns cosmonauts and film crew to Earth - SpaceNews

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Update 15 October, 2021 - Soyuz Thruster Firing Problem - SpaceRef

This week in space: The ISS becomes a movie set for 'The Challenge', a probe to interstellar space, and the smallsat market is project to hit $360 billion by 2030...

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William Shatner on his upcoming spaceflight:

Film crew arrives on the ISS:

Food on the ISS

Europe and Africa from space...

This Week at NASA - Space Station Change of Command and More - SpaceRef

Earth from Space - Budapest, Hungary - SpaceRef

Reading material:

Interstellar Probe: Pushing Beyond Voyager (centauri-dreams.org)

Global Small Satellites Market is projected to reach at a market value of US$360.5 Billion by 2030: Visiongain Research Inc (spaceref.com)

Small Spacecraft Hitching A Ride With LandSat 9 - SpaceRef Business

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 7 October, 2021 - Eye Checks, Science, and and Soyuz Crew Departure Preparations - SpaceRef

Industry skeptical about the business case for megaconstellations - SpaceNews

Earth observation is expanding into new markets - SpaceNews

NRO begins journey toward commercial data program of record - SpaceNews

As Martian spacecraft experience solar conjunction, Perseverance confirms Jezero Crater’s watery past - NASASpaceFlight.com

How forecasters use GOES weather satellite data for hurricane tracking and forecasting - NASASpaceFlight.com

This week in space: Rain of 'mush-balls' on Neptune, an on-orbit petrol station, and Landsat 9 launches...

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Bombing around the ISS in a Soyuz:

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Landsat 9 launches:

Giant Balls of Mush Made From Ammonia and Water Form in the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune - Universe Today

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship heads for Earth packed with gravity-sensitive experiments | Space

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Orbit Fab to launch propellant tanker to fuel satellites in geostationary orbit - SpaceNews

Focusing On Soyuz While Earth Zooms By - SpaceRef

Starlink can be Used as a Navigation System too - Universe Today

FAA clears Virgin Galactic to start flying again | Space

Satellite servicing companies see different demand in LEO versus GEO - SpaceNews

Op-ed | Can we backhaul our way to space? - SpaceNews

Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, ULA win Space Force contracts for rocket technology projects - SpaceNew

La Palma eruption: Satellite image captures path of lava to sea as new crack opens after eight earthquakes (msn.com)

This week in space : Deliveries from orbit, long range planning, and Mars with a thousand super volcanoes....

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Spacepod Podcast: Long range planning

This Week at NASA - Preparing for Lunar Exploration - SpaceRef

 

 

NASA JSC SpaceCast Weekly 24 September, 2021 - SpaceRef

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Volcanoes on Ancient Mars Exploded in Huge Super Eruptions | Digital Trends

 

Earth from Space - Calabria, Italy - SpaceRef

 

The Future Could Bring Pinpoint Deliveries From Orbit - Universe Today

 

Chinese space station docking

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Reading material:

Tom Cruise Loses Space Race: The Challenge Starts Shooting on the ISS Next Month - autoevolution

NASA urged to avoid space station gap - SpaceNews

Next commercial Falcon Heavy mission to launch debut Astranis satellite - SpaceNews

Humanity needs a space-rescue capability, report stresses | Space

White dwarfs become magnetic as they get older (phys.org)

 

Earth and Venus grew up as rambunctious planets (phys.org)

 

This week in space: Bizarre organic-cryogeology of Titan recreated, Jupiter hit by a space rock and... did SpaceX something :D ?

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Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera | Space

SpaceX launches the first all-civilian mission to the ISS

The first working gas station - in space....

Earth from Space - The Danube Delta - SpaceRef

...and lake Maharloo

Reading material:

Russia launches Soyuz 2.1v with Razbeg reconnaissance satellite - NASASpaceFlight.com

Soyuz mission launches 34 OneWeb satellites to orbit - NASASpaceFlight.com

Why are gamma rays coming from empty space?

Titan in a Test Tube: Organic Co-crystals and Implications for Titan Mineralogy | Accounts of Chemical Research (acs.org)

This week in space: White dwarfs that still live, disaster monitoring by satellite, bad luck try again Firefly Aerospace and loads more...

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Time To Eat The Dogs

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2021 student rocket launch:

Firefly aerospace's experimental launch fails:

Earth from Space - The Danube Delta - SpaceRef

Reading material:

20 years after 9/11: How satellites tracking disasters have changed | Space

DoD looking for commercially available nuclear propulsion for small spacecraft - SpaceNews

Geospatial intelligence companies struggle to educate customers about their capabilities - SpaceNews

House Science Committee advances budget reconciliation package - SpaceNews

Hydrogen-burning White Dwarf Stars Enjoy Slow Aging - SpaceRef

ALMA's new Receivers Will let it see Longer Wavelengths, Peering Closer to the Beginning of the Universe - Universe Today

This week in space: Blue Origin flies science payloads, rocket launch from Scotland, China looks at kilometer scale space stations, and loads more...

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Blue Origin flies science payloads

SpaceX launches Dragon cargo capsule to space station, nails rocket landing at sea | Space

Rocket launches begin from Scotland's Western Isles ahead of planned spaceport opening (msn.com)

Soar with Dawn Aerospace's space plane on its 1st-ever test flights (video) | Space

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Planet Aqua

Artificial gravity?

A tour of node 2 on the ISS:

Reading material:

China researching challenges of kilometer-scale ultra-large spacecraft - SpaceNews

Landsat 9 Prepared For Launch - SpaceRef

Astra rocket fails to reach space during test launch for US military | Space

Moon-in-a-jar recreates the hazy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon | Space

Scientists puzzling out secrets of Venus' 30-year-old 'Giant Dark Cloud' | Space