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Saturday 3 July 2021

This week, in space: What's more powerful than a dinosaur? Virgin Orbit's first commercial launch, Branson to go on the 11th, Chinese solar power satellites and loads more....

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 Pick o' the podcasts:


186: What's more powerful than a dinosaur with Dr. Noviello — Spacepod (listentospacepod.com)









From the video store:


Virgin Orbit's 3rd flight to space:


SpaceX launches 88 satellites:


Earth from Space: Lake Mar Chiquita, Argentina - SpaceRef



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SpaceX's monster rocket rolls out



Reading material:


NASA Continues to Try and Rescue Failing Hubble - Universe Today


Astronomers Detected a Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger, and Then Another Just 10 Days Later - Universe Today


A Small Satellite With a Solar Sail Could Catch up With an Interstellar Object - Universe Today


China aims to build space based solar power station 


Space miners may use rockets to harvest the moon's water ice (video) | Space


Rogue Space and Orbital assembly to lease in-space construction vessel


Richard Branson to fly to space July 11th


Blue Origin to fly Mercury 13 woman on first crewed New Shepard flight - SpaceNews


OneWeb hits coverage goal with latest launch, sets sights on southern regions - SpaceNews


'Lakes' under Mars' south pole: A muddy picture? (phys.org)


Why does Mercury have such a big iron core? Magnetism! (phys.org)


Astrophysicists detect first black hole-neutron star mergers: Mix pair is 'elusive missing piece of the family picture of compact object mergers' -- ScienceDaily


The Goldilocks Supernova: The discovery of a new type of supernova illuminates a medieval mystery -- ScienceDaily



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