This week, off world: New Horizons mission looks for a new target, exploring Venus with a fleet of balloons 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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From the video store:

The Best Way to Learn About Venus Could Be With a Fleet of Balloons - Universe Today

Cargo Dragon CRS-27 docks with ISS - NASASpaceFlight.com

 

...and SpaceX launches another fleet of Starlink satellites  

Rocketlab launches 'stronger together' mission:

Don’t Drop your Tools in Space

Long March-2C launches Horus-2

Long March-3B launches Gaofen-13 02

Reading material:

The Latest from New Horizons (centauri-dreams.org)

Venus is ‘geologically active’, revolutionary new evidence suggests (msn.com)

Telescope on moon's far side will probe universe's 'Dark Ages' | Space

Nasa’s James Webb telescope captures image of star on verge of going supernova (msn.com)

What is the U.S. Space Force and what does it do? (msn.com)

Canadian military orders space surveillance micro satellite - SpaceNews

NASA study assesses costs and benefits of orbital debris removal - SpaceNews

Images: 10 incredible volcanoes in our solar system (msn.com)

U.S. Space Force budget hits $30 billion in 2024 proposal - SpaceNews

Space Force: We expect to see ‘interfering, blinding’ of satellites during conflict - SpaceNews

Firefly wins second NASA CLPS mission - SpaceNews

NanoAvionics to build three more NB-IoT satellites for OQ Technology - SpaceNews

Voyager Space acquires ZIN Technologies to support Starlab development - SpaceNews

LEO constellations are starting to disrupt GEO capacity contracts - SpaceNews

Getting real about space business models - SpaceNews