This week, off world: Another water tower flies, NASA makes plans for a telescope on the Moon and loads more...

 

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Update on Hopper2: The Hopper Has Landed | Stoke Space 

Fireball Above Iceland

NASA's Plan to Build A Telescope on the Moon

ULA’s Atlas 5 launches National Reconnaissance Office mission - SpaceNews

Virgin Galactic completes third commercial SpaceShipTwo flight - SpaceNews

Tianzhou-5 undocking

Long March-6A launches Yaogan-40

SpaceX Starlink 105 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 12 September 2023

Modern Spacecraft Engineering: How Europe Is Trying To Catch Up | Ariane 6 | FD Engineering 

Satellite Imagery Confirms One S-400 Launcher Destroyed in Crimea After Neptune Missile Strike 

Launch Roundup; Rocket Lab fails during "We Will Never Desert You" launch; SpaceX to launch booster for 17th time - NASASpaceFlight.com 

Reinventing the Space Station with LIFE Habitat

Reading materials:

James Webb Space Telescope detects carbon on Jupiter's icy moon Europa | Space

JWST Might Have Imaged a Hycean World for the First Time, With a Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere and a Deep Planet-Wide Water Ocean - Universe Today

NASA's Lucy asteroid probe shoots 1st photo of 'Dinky' space rock | Space

Spanish police dismantle equipment of group suspected of using satellites to get ahead of betting shops | World News | Sky News

Astronauts on ISS gaze into the eye of Hurricane Nigel (photos) | Space

New Mars gravity analysis improves understanding of possible ancient ocean (spacedaily.com)

If You Could See Gravitational Waves, the Universe Would Look Like This - Universe Today

This week, off world: Indian lunar land does a 'hop test', oceans moons and planets, and loads more...

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Footage from Moon shows Indian lunar lander successfully 'hopping' – video | World news | The Guardian

A classic space oddity:

Aditya-L1 launch

SpaceX launches 13 satellites for US Space Force, booster lands in California

Falcon 9 launches Tranche 0B and Falcon 9 first stage landing

SpaceX Crew-6 hatch closure

....Re-entry...

.... and landing:

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink satellites from Florida

What Chandrayaan-3 Saw on the Moon So Far!

Chinese Ceres-1 rocket reaches orbit with first sea launch - SpaceNews

Hot-fire test of Ariane 6 core stage on launch pad

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Cracking the celestial ceiling - SpaceNews

Astronomers are Hoping the Event Horizon Telescope saw Pulsars Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole - Universe Today

Chinese scientist proposes solar system-wide resource utilization roadmap - SpaceNews

With Silent Barker Satellites, America Enters New Space Arms Race (popularmechanics.com)

DoD satellites in low Earth orbit promise more connectivity for military users - SpaceNews

This week, off world: Space assets track hurricanes Idalia and Frankin, Chandrayaan-3 and it's rover on the Moon, and loads more...

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Hurricane Idalia seen from the International Space Station:

Hurricanes Idalia and Frankin seen from space in amazing satellite time-lapses:

Crew-7 launches to the space station - SpaceNews:

Crew-7 docks with space station - SpaceNews:  

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SpaceX launches Starlink batch in 2nd launch of day following Crew-7:

India's Chandrayaan-3 moon rover is on the move in new footage: 

SpaceX Crew Docking At The ISS:

Reading material:

Rideshare industry adapting to a changing smallsat market - SpaceNews

NASA moon orbiter spots crash site of Russia's failed Luna-25 lander (photo) | Space

Company wants to clean space junk with 'capture bags' in orbit | Space

Is Anyone Planning for Diplomacy with an Extraterrestrial Civilization? - Universe Today

Hunting for supermassive black holes in the early universe (phys.org)

Japanese astrophysicists suggest possibility of hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt

James Webb: Telescope reveals new detail in famous supernova - BBC News

NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument - SpaceRef

Infospectrum Expands Contract with Spire Global to Enhance Vessel-Tracking Capabilities - SpaceRef

Portion of a Ridge in Northwestern Antoniadi Crater On Mars - SpaceRef

SwRI will lead Hubble, Webb observations of Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon - SpaceRef

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

Reading material:

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