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Saturday 28 November 2020

This week in space: Chinese probe enters lunar orbit, the Universe is set out (a bit) like a brain, a new era begins ofr the ISS and loads more



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Pick o' the podcasts:


Main Engine Cutoff: A New Era for the ISS


Weekly Space Hangout





From the video store:


China launches the first sample return mission to the Moon for decades -  and it's just entered Lunar orbit


Space-Junk clean up mission will test using a net to capture debris



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SpaceX test fires it's SN8 prototype super rocket


Watch the 'cosmic web' of the universe form in simulation



Reading material:


Rocket labs recovers a first stage booster for the first time


How is the Universe like a brain?


3D rocket printing company Relativity Space raises $500 million to accelerate it's plans


Brown Dwarf spotted with radio telescope



One of life's building blocks can form in deep space, no star or planet needed



Martian dust storms devastated the planet, removed it's water


Europa's geysers might be from near-surface lakes



First large sunspot of the new sunspot cycle



Greening the Earth may mitigate surface warming



Growing radish plants in orbit



A hint of new physics in the early universe?



Defects in a mitochondria may explain health problems during space travel



Fabric on the ISS' hull listens for space dust strikes



Sunday 22 November 2020

This week in space: Yes, there is phosphine on Venus (maybe not as much though), Space Station Guys photographing the ISS from the ground, massive fireball over Australia and loads more...

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


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Pick o' the podcasts:



Deep Space Update: Vega & Starship Failures, Operation Stellar Lancer and Baby Yoda on the ISS



Planetary Radio:

 



From the video store:


RocketLabs launch 30 satellites in one go, recovers their 1st stage booster


SpaceX launches crew to the ISS


(and seen from the ground in one long shot)


...and they dock in record time:


Sentinel 6 satellite launches to monitor sea levels


Why rocket exhausts look the way they do:


Starship Test Destroys Raptor Engine, But Burst Disc Saves Rest Of Vehicle


Australian ship catches massive fireball entering our atmosphere


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