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Saturday 22 August 2020

This week in space: U.S. military takes an interest in lunar resources race, some solar systems may have several habitable worlds, a second satellite servicing 'tow truck' launches to orbit, and loads more....


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Main Engine cutoff: Small commercial launcher updates


Off nominal:


Planetary Radio:


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Northrup-Grumman's second 'space tow truck', MEV-2, launches along side two communications satellites. 


SpaceX does another Starlink internet satellite launch...


...and it's drone-boat catches the rocket's nosecone covering ('fairing') for re-use: 


Scotland's highland spaceport gets approval:


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Blacksky satellites return images only 2 days after launch


Arecibo radio telescope damaged by snapping cable


A private mission to Venus


Rocket Labs to attempt recovery of one of its boosters, a big step towards re-use


Russia's new space station science lab is readied for its mission


Tropical storm Isaiha tracked in visible light and water vapour emission


Cape Cod bay from orbit


Aguas Zarcas meteor may contain building blocks of life


SNC grows tomatoes in test of space garden


Altius Space Machines to support Artemis


White house memo makes LEO research a priority


Scotland's spaceport plan gets approved


Satellite images capture struggle to move stricken ship


Skysat constellation complete


US military eyes role in international competition for lunar resources


Friday 14 August 2020

This week in space: Winners and losers of US DOD launch contracts, International Space Station launches a teeny space telescope, Australia from space, and loads more...


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Main engine cutoff: SpaceX and United Launch Alliance win US Department of Defense contracts


The Daily Space: All things Ceres


Space Scoop: When stars wobble



From the video store


Flinders ranges, Australia, from space:


Japanese company ispace aims to land a private mission on the moon in 2022


NASA space probe's dress rehearsal for asteroid landing



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Dreamchaser space plane gets a name: Tenacity


Lava tubes on the Moon are big enough to hold cities


Dwarf planet Ceres does host a salty, near surface, ocean


New Russian extension for ISS is shipped


Space junk clean-up tech to be tested


A wave of space sector acquisitions


NASA's Martian mole is finally under the red sand:



Galapagos from space


The star Betelgeuse just sneezed


NASA satellites track hurricane Elida...


...and the damaged core of Beirut


Miniature space telescope launched from ISS


Friday 7 August 2020

This week in space: A huge week for SpaceX, Mars may have been cold-and-wet not warm-and-wet, mushy hail on Jupiter and loads more...



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Saturday 1 August 2020

The week in space news: An interview with Richard Garriott, lunar water mysteries, a second satellite servicing mission is set to launch, and lots about Mars...



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Off Nominal: Well Within The Kill Zone:


Planetary Radio: Hope leads the way to Mars:


From the video store:

Test fire of SpaceX's new super-heavy lift rocket:

What we know about Russia's in-space anti-satellite weapon 

Ride along with a Soyuz spacecraft as it docks with the ISS

NASA launches Perseverance rover to Mars:


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