Space news this week: A new space industry is born, Earth has another moon, huge meteors galore, and lots, lots more...

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The Association for Science Education
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SATRO
Arkwright Engineering Scholarships
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The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

Planetary Radio: The Demon in the  machine

Main Engine Cut-off: Let's talk about Starship, with Tim Dodd

Time To Eat The Dogs: Anticipating the Astronaut

From the video store:

First ever satellite servicing mission docks with target… …while ground based telescopes watch:

Satellite servicing mission profile:

...and how it unfolded:

Earth got a visitor the other night part 1: Meteor lights up Arizona skies

Earth got a visitor the other night part 2: Meteor lights up Tucson skies

An oldie but goodie: Take a tour of the International Space Station, from its (former) commander.

How big are asteroids?

Reading material:

Earth has a baby Moon! 

Whales may be getting stranded by solar storms... 

Chang'e 4 lander and rover being their 15th lunar day of science and exploration...

...As they reveal the Moon's violent history with ground piercing radar.

Demand for space travel surges

Orbital greenhouse for research and salad lunches in the works.

Northwestern U.S. as seen from orbit

Particle accelerator experiments reveal the innards of neutron stars

Relativity Space to 3D print its rockets at new factory

New record for biggest explosion in the Universe set

NASA's Insight mission reveals surprising findings about Martian geology here, and here.

This week in space news: U.S. space policy gets more confused, Japan heads to Phobos, SpaceX accidentally lands it's booster in the sea, space industry tops $400 billion, and lots, lots more....

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

Want to support the future science and engineering? You can do so through one of these charities:

Skeptoid media
The Association for Science Education 

The Smallpiece Trust
SATRO
Arkwright Engineering Scholarships
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The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts:

Weekly Space Hangout: Astrobotic

Time to Eat the Dogs: 15 million years in Antarctica

Off Nominal podcast: Space policy fugue state

Main Engine Cut Off : Bill Gerst joins SpaceX

Spacepod: The flattest structures on the solar system

From the video store:

Japan is sending a mission to the Martian moon Phobos:

Why do we only ever see one side of the Moon?

Stealthy startup Astra to compete for DARPA prize

Cargo ship S. S. Robert H. Lawrence launches to the international space station

How far can we see through the Universe?

SpaceX launches 60 new Internet satellites with a 4x reused rocket... but manages to land it in the drink

...and see their newest batch of starlink satellites passing overhead:

Watch the Moon pass in front of Mars

Venus seen in ultraviolet light, courtesy of Palebluedot on unmannedspaceflight.com

Reading material:

Space foundation 2019 report: Space, a 400 billion dollar industry

One of my favourite sites: SpaceWeather.com

A new kind of rocket motor: The rotating detonation engine

Space rock falls into someone's back garden

Chemical mysteries in Venus' atmosphere provoke strange cloud behavior

Jupiter has more water than previously thought

Solar Wind Samples Suggest New Physics Of Massive Solar Ejections

SpaceX will be taking space tourists for Space Adventures

Rocket Labs will be sending a cubesat to the Moon for NASA

Super high-speed meteors could be a thing

Betelgeuse is still dimming

Exoplanet has huge electric current running through it

ESA's Comet Interceptor mission edges closer to reality

This week in Space news: Learn about Axiom Space's plan for the first commercial space station, space hazards are an urgent cause for US politicians, astronaut meets dog, watch ESA's Solar Orbiter mission launch, and a lot more...

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

Want to support the future science and engineering? You can do so through one of these charities:

Skeptoid media
The Association for Science Education 

The Smallpiece Trust
SATRO
Arkwright Engineering Scholarships
LabAid
The Space Foundation

Pick o' the podcasts

Main Engine Cut Off: An interview with the CEO of Axiom - the company aiming to build the first commercial space station

Planetary Radio: Space policy

Astronomycast: The surface of the Sun

From the video store:

Watch the mission profile for the launch of ESA's Solar Orbiter:

Watch the launch of ESA's Solar Orbiter mission

Take a tour of the International Space Station:


Watch record breaking astronaut Christina Koch re-unite with her dog, who goes utterly ballistic!

Reading material:

Stunning views of Mars from HIRISE

New Horizons results change our understanding of planet formation

Could Martian boulders be sheltering pools of brine?

Think Relativity started with Einstein? Learn how Galileo started the theory centuries before...

Two Russian satellites are apparently hunting a U.S. spy sat

Sat-nav: A geopolitical battleground

Space weather and satellite safety a major concern say U.S. lawmakers


  Should we hunt for aliens around white dwarf stars?

Satellites to get 'number plates' 

What's next for the U.S. Space Force?

VSS Unity arrives in New Mexico for commercial operations

Chinese plans for a re-useable rocket

This week in space news: Jupiter revealed, bizarre Martian weather, commercial space station by Axiom, mounds of Parker Solar Probe discoveries and lots, lots more...

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.

Want to support the future science and engineering? You can do so through one of these charities:

Skeptoid media
The Association for Science Education 

The Smallpiece Trust
SATRO
Arkwright Engineering Scholarships
LabAid



Pick o' the podcasts:

Planetary Radio: Jupiter revealed

Spacepod podcast: Undersea grippers and in-space assembly

We Martians: Martian dust towers - a unique weather phenomena.

From the video store:

Parker Solar Probe reveals the Sun's eerie 'song'

New pattern of Aurora discovered

What would we see if the oceans were drained? 

Footage of Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two



Huge meteor explodes over Derby


Axiom space will be building a commercial ISS extension / space station - see their  plans here.

Arianespace launches 34 OneWeb internet satellites on a single launch.

Reading material:

Microbes build their own biosphere from oil and saltwater, trapped inside ice

A slew of new data on the Sun from the Parker solar probe (papers here)

 

SpaceX may test mega rocket as soon as March

Robotic arm to be sent to work the Moon

 Assembler robots may be sent to the Moon

Boeing's Starliner may need a second test flight

Blue Origin's Moon lander to be tested by airforce

In the news this week: Mega constellations, Clone Wars trailer, the Sun up close, and lots lots more...

Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here. 

Want to support the future science and engineering? You can do so through one of these charities: 
Skeptoid media

The Association for Science Education

The Smallpiece Trust

SATRO

Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

LabAid

Pick o' the podcasts:

Main Engine Cutoff 1: Satellite  developments and megaconstellations

Main engine cut off 2: The White House's NASA appropriations bill.

Life's Little Mysteries podcast: Mysterious Oceans

From the video store:

Trailer for the final season of Clone Wars:

Cutting edge solar telescope sees the Sun's seething surface in unprecedented detail:

SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink internet satellites:

….lands both the booster an nosecone for re-re-use...

 ..then deliberately explodes a full fuel tank.

What's powering the geysers of Enceladus?

What was the Carrington event, and should we worry?

Reading material:

16 experiments to fly the moon on private lander missions

Malfunctioning satellite is about to explode in a key part of space

Axiom space to build space station extension, commercial space station to follow

Cargo ship SS Alan Bean leaves the ISS to become an independent space science lab

White dwarf and neutron star interact to make space itself swirl

How to catch Mercury in the night sky