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Friday 24 February 2023

This week, off world: Spacecraft track a massive solar storm, the ISS tracks tropical cyclone Freddy, and loads more...

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 ...and where you can donate to support victims of the recent quake in Syria and Turkey (dec.org.uk) 




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These Rocks Did Something We Were Not Expecting | 1st Year Perseverance Supercut


Sun blasts powerful X2-class solar flare, spacecraft sees it


See the eye of tropical cyclone Freddy in amazing view from space station



Phoenix 1B Hybrid Sounding Rocket Campaign - 2021


China launches high-capacity communications satellite after 39-day pause - SpaceNews


Zaragoza, Spain: Earth From Space


Introducing the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem:




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Northern Territory, Australia As Seen By Sentinel-2 - SpaceRef


Blue Origin makes solar cells from simulated moon dirt with 'alchemist' | Space


The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist | Space


Astronomers Find a Group of Water-rich Asteroids - Universe Today


Astronomers target dark side of the Moon in search for alien life (msn.com)
















Friday 17 February 2023

This week, off world: Are ion engines the future of space exploration & industry? Plus the Sun roars out flares and CME storms and loads more...

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 ...and where you can donate to support victims of the recent quake in Syria and Turkey (dec.org.uk) 



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SpaceX Starlink 73 launch & Falcon 9 first stage landing


Ion Thrusters Are the Future. How Far Away Are They?


See an X1-class solar flare in this close-up view from NASA's IRIS mission


NASA launches pair of suborbital sounding rockets to the mesosphere


Studying forest biomass from space



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Europe approves multi-orbit connectivity constellation plan - SpaceNews



Intuitive Machines rings Nasdaq bell on path to private moon landing | Space


First Global Image From NOAA-21’s CrIS Instrument - SpaceRef


Chelyabinsk meteor explosion was a planetary defense wakeup call | Space






















Saturday 11 February 2023

This week, off world: 'Strange' Russian satellite explodes in a cloud of hazardous debris, Taikonauts spacewalk, epic test of SpaceX's Starship rocket and loads more...

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims... 

 ...and where you can donate to support victims of the recent quake in Syria and Turkey (dec.org.uk) 




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Shenzhou-15 astronauts complete first spacewalk


ISRO Scripts History: Launch Vehicle SSLV D2 Successfully Places 3 Small Satellites In Orbit (msn.com)


Juice’s odyssey of exploration

Curiosity discovers evidence of water on ancient Mars with ripples and landslide debris


SpaceX launches Hispasat's Amazonas Nexus satellite - NASASpaceFlight.com


Proton-M launches Elektro-L No.4


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SLS RS-25 Engine Test, 8 February 2023


Progress MS-22 launch

Why the US military made GPS free to use:


SpaceX's huge Starship booster conducts epic 31-engine burn | Space



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Maxar receives $192 million contract to supply imagery to U.S. allies - SpaceNews


NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR)


Exotrail raises $58 million to expand space logistics services - SpaceNews








Saturday 4 February 2023

This week, off world: Exploring the 4 billion year old dark of the moon's poles, how to build a satellite, and loads more...

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Exploring the Moon's permanently shadowed regions with "ShadowCam"


SpaceX launches 53 Starlinks on 200th Falcon 9 rocket flight | Space



A lesson in how to build a satellite:



See Comet 96P/Macholz's stunning sun flyby in multiple spacecraft views 


Boom! Sierra Space blows up inflatable habitat...and building housing it!


Mars helicopter Ingenuity flies for the 41st time



SpaceX launches first flight of cross-country Starlink doubleheader - NASASpaceFlight.com

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Exotic_atoms - because the periodic table was just too dang cramped....



Reading material:


Kolkata, India As Seen From Space By Copernicus Sentinel-2 - SpaceRef



Cubesat launched by SpaceX will test water-based propulsion | Space


Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night, A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon - Universe Today