This week: Drug manufacturing experiments using micro gravity, Starlink over southern England, and loads more...

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Mars Perseverance rover watches Ingenuity helicopter zoom above Red Planet in real time

Shenzhou 17 launches to the Tiangong space station, reaches it in just 7 hrs:

 

 

Starlink satellites over Folkestone | Watch (msn.com)

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on its second spaceflight in a day | Space

SpaceX fires up single Starship 26 engine in deorbit burn test at Starbase

Hera asteroid mission goes on trial

India's crew launch escape system test a success! See the liftoff & splashdown

22,000-foot volcano summit is home to Earth's highest-dwelling vertebrates, study confirms (msn.com)

Reading material:

Groundbreaking laser-communications experiment flying to ISS on SpaceX cargo mission next month | Space

In 1952, A Group of Three "Stars" Vanished. Astronomers Still Can't Find Them - Universe Today

A Russian Satellite Has Shifted Within 60 km of Another Spacecraft - Universe Today

Declassified spy satellite images reveal 400 Roman Empire forts | Space

Varda partners with Australian range for capsule landings - SpaceNews

Space Perspective unveils 'Space Spa' restroom for balloon tourist flights (images) | Space

Rocket company given £3.5m ahead of Shetland space launch (msn.com)

Space Force sets sights on small geostationary communications satellites - SpaceNews

This week, off world: Amazon begins launching its Kuiper satellites, Io up close and loads more....

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Psyche Mission Launches And On Its Way To Metal Asteroid | Watch (msn.com)

Osiris-Rex: Nasa reveals first look at 'beautiful' asteroid sample - BBC News

 

See Mars helicopter Ingenuity soar for 62nd time in full flight time-lapse

Virgin Galactic launches 1st Pakistani to space on 4th commercial spaceflight | Space

Atlas V rocket launches Amazon's 1st 2 internet satellites to orbit (video) | Space

Noctus Laberynthius

Atlas V Project Kuiper Protoflight Rocket Cam 

What Satellites Can See From Space Is Troubling

Reading material:

NASA Mission Had the Perfect View for the Recent Solar Eclipse - Universe Today

Blue Origin Reveals its Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle: Blue Ring - Universe Today

There are 14,000 Potentially Hazardous City-Killing Asteroids Left to Find - Universe Today

UK Start-ups in Space Sector Reach £200 Million Milestone, Boost Economy (msn.com)

Juno Completes its Closest Flyby of Io Yet - Universe Today

ESA - Satellites deliver 5G-quality connectivity

Russian ISS module experiences coolant leak - SpaceNews

More eyes in the sky: NRO building new satellites to deliver ‘10 times more signals and images’ - SpaceNews

Astrobotic resumes flights of Xodiac suborbital vehicle - SpaceNews

‘A bright future for the plant’: Giant solar space farm could be orbiting Earth by 2035 (msn.com)

If There Was Ever Life on Mars, this Ancient Mud Lake is the Perfect Place to Look - Universe Today

This week, off world: Using microgravity to forge unique materials, a radio telescope on the Moon's far side by 2025, and loads more...

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Supernovae Struck the Earth 3 Million and 7 Million Years Ago - Universe Today

SpaceX Starlink 111 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 5 October 2023

SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, nails landing 

Astronomers are Working to Put a Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon by 2025 - Universe Today

Reading material:

UK startup readies new satellite that will make semiconductors in space | Space

The BlueWalker 3 satellite is officially one of the brightest objects in the sky | Space

SpaceX wins Space Force contract for Starshield military satellites | Space

China to attempt lunar far side sample return in 2024 - SpaceNews

India's private space sector skyrockets (msn.com)

First-ever space debris fine issued after company fails to 'properly de-orbit satellite' | US News | Sky News

Could space-based solar farms soon be a reality? (msn.com)

China to send new modules and co-orbiting spacecraft to Tiangong space station - SpaceNews