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Friday 27 October 2023

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

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

...and here is (one) place you can donate to help children in Afghanistan, caught under the Taliban.



   


 Pick o' the podcasts:


 




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From the video store:


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



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



Friday 20 October 2023

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

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

...and here is (one) place you can donate to help children in Afghanistan, caught under the Taliban.



   


 Pick o' the podcasts:





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From the video store:


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