This week, off world: Life's chemistry in meteorites, Russia's first lunar mission for 25 years and loads more...

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Luna 25: the first Russian spacecraft in 47 years heading to the moon - NASASpaceFlight.com

...and what is it all about?

Virgin Galactic launches its second private spaceflight:

A Bronze Age Arrowhead was Made Out of a Meteorite - Universe Today

Longshot targets $10/kg launch costs with Nazi uber-cannon on steroids (newatlas.com)

Amazing moon views captured by Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft during orbit insertion

Reading material:

Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars (phys.org)

How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare - Hindustan Times

NASA Is Helping Private Companies Build a Business on the Moon (businessinsider.com)

DNA And RNA Bases, "Missing" Building Blocks Of Life On Earth, Found On Meteorites | IFLScience

 

Satellite operators poised for $9 billion payday after clearing C-band spectrum | Ars Technica

Trans-Atlantic joint venture aims to build new “international” space station | Ars Technica

India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander arrives in lunar orbit - SpaceNews

NASA and Axiom Space sign-on for 4th private astronaut mission to space station (msn.com)

Some Metal Meteorites Have a Tiny Magnetic Field. But How? - Universe Today

Managing space debris: Isro de-orbits last stage of PSLV-C56 | India News - Times of India (indiatimes.com)

Busek lauds on-orbit performance of OneWeb's Hall-effect thrusters - SpaceNews