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Monday 28 December 2020

In space over Christmas: SpaceX launches classified NRO mission, building your own rocket, commercial airlock opens on the ISS, and loads more...


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Pick o' the podcasts:


Main Engine Cut-Off: NASA VCLS 2, Relativity, Astra, and Firefly....

We Martians: Lunar Science's Next Giant Leap...





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Christmas message from the ISS:


SpaceX ends the year with a classified launch for the NRO:



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A recap of Starship SN8's (sort-of) successful test flight:


And at the other end of the spectrum: Building your own rocket:



Looking for New Year's boardgames? Here are a few intriguing suggestions... 


Reading material:

Point to point suborbital space travel...


Possibility of alien technology not yet ruled out for Proxima Centauri signal










Sunday 20 December 2020

This week in space: Chang'e 5 returns samples from the Moon, Russia launches a huge new rocket, dark matter theory may have a challenger and loads more...


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Pick o' the podcasts:

Main engine cut-off: The flight of starship SN8





From the video store:


Russia's new, gigantic, Angara A5 rocket launches:


SpaceX launches the SiriusXM satellite


Astra's tiny rocket makes it to space 

Large meteorites over the Popecatepetl volcano... 
...and over Norway


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Chang'e 5 sample return capsule recovered. 

The mind melting scale of voids and supervoids


Arianespace launches 36 more satellites for the OneWeb satellite internet constellation


Earth from space: Lapland


Sunday 13 December 2020

This week in space: Something happened with SpaceX I believe? Hayabusa 2's asteroid sample lands in Australia, VG aborts its first spaceflight attempt from New Mexico, and loads more...



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Pick o' the podcasts:


We Martians: H.A.L.O


Spacepod: Not Just a Telescope


Are We There Yet? The Big Business of Small Satellites




From the video store:


Well, that escalated quickly: Starship has a successful first flight... and stacks the landing (spectacularly)


Blast from the past: Watch ISS astronauts work outside the space station


Top secret NROL 44 intelligence satellite launches:



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Virgin Galactic aborts first spaceflight from New Mexico


Earth from Space: Kyiv, Ukraine



Reading material:


Starliner completes parachute tests


NASA to commercialize near-Earth communications








Sunday 6 December 2020

This week in space: Hayabusa 2 drops its sample return capsule off in Australia, Chang'e 5 captures samples of the Moon, satellite spotters track the mysterious NROL 101 satellite and loads more...



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Pick o' the podcasts:

Universe Today: What if our galaxy's central black hole became a quasar?


Main Engine Cut-Off: Delays, Delays...




From the video store:

China touches down on the Moon, drills for samples, and returns them to orbiting mothership - but suspends live broadcast of landing, causing confusion:


Landing...


...collecting samples...


...sealing samples...


...returning to space...


...docking with the mothership and sample transfer...


Arainespace and Roscosmos launch Falconeye 1 Earth observing satellite