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Saturday 18 June 2022

This week, off world: Games of cat and mouse in space, fire in microgravity and loads more...

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From the video store:




Perseverance rover's ongoing adventures on Mars: 


Astra launch fails on first TROPICS flight for NASA - NASASpaceFlight.com 



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Record breaking 13th flight for SpaceX booster:


...followed by the launch of a RADAR imaging satellite...


... and Globalstar satellite, for 3 launches and landing in 36 hours...


Earth from Space - Glacier Bay, Alaska - SpaceRef



Reading material:


NASA Space Station Update 16 June, 2022 - Debris Avoidance Maneuver Takes Place on Station - SpaceRef


This is What the Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Look Like - Universe Today


Fire Acts Strangely in Microgravity. Astronauts Have Lit More Than 1,500 Fires on the Space Station to Figure Out Why - Universe Today


Stratolaunch's Roc carrier plane aces 7th test flight | Space


Impulse Space raises an additional $10 million for orbital transfer vehicles - SpaceNews


Astronomers renew concerns about Starlink satellite brightness - SpaceNews


Speedcast plotting major satellite capacity expansion - SpaceNews


NASA assigns two astronauts to Starliner test flight - SpaceNews


Quadsat gets ESA funding for ready-to-fly antenna testing kits - SpaceNews


Foust Forward | This time is different. Maybe. - SpaceNews



Saturday 4 June 2022

This week, off world: Interstellar travel via rogue planets, a new kind of solar sail, Blue Origin launches another 6 space tourists and loads more...

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From the video store:



Progress MS-20 docks to the International Space Station - NASASpaceFlight.com


Meteosat looking over Antarctica:


Barchan dunes of Mars:


What does a nuclear explosion sound like?


The solar system through an amateur telescope:

 

Earth from Space - Puglia, Italy - SpaceRef

 

 

Reading material:


 Chang Zheng 2C launches GeeSAT autonomous driving navigation satellites - NASASpaceFlight.com



NASA to reexamine space-based solar power - SpaceNews





KARI names KPLO as it begins communication testing - NASASpaceFlight.com








Momentus attempting to fix anomalies with first Vigoride tug - SpaceNews