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Friday 13 September 2024

This week, off world: The first privately funded spacewalk, hurricane Francine seen from satellites and loads more...

 An appeal for a friend of mine, suffering a serious medical condition and financial problems all at once: 



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:


 






From the video store:


Polaris dawn launch:


...and apogee - the furthest humans have been from Earth's surface since the Apollo era....


... then the first spacewalk by privately funded astronauts...

...and then a Polaris Dawn astronaut plays 'Star Wars' song in music video beamed from space (video) | Space:


Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotted on another star:


Landspace completes 10-kilometer reusable rocket test, eyes 2025 orbital launch - SpaceNews


Soyuz MS-26 launch:


Falcon 9 launches BlueBird 1-5 and Falcon 9 first stage landing:


... and deployment:


ESA's Bepicolombo space probe passes Mercury:


SpaceX sends up more Starlinks! 


Satellites watch Hurricane Francine make landfall as a Category 2 storm in Louisiana (video) | Space



Starliner astronauts talk about being 'stranded' on the ISS:



Reading material:


New record! 19 people are orbiting Earth right now | Space


Astroscale and ClearSpace get funds to advance double satellite de-orbit mission  - SpaceNews


The invisible battle for space dominance - SpaceNews


U.S. space weather policy is alive and well but is insufficiently funded - SpaceNews








Saturday 7 September 2024

This week, off world: ESA's BepiColombo mission zooms past Mercury, a 1 meter asteroid goes boom on camera and loads more...

An appeal for a friend of mine, suffering a serious medical condition and financial problems all at once: 


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:









From the video store

BepiColombo’s fourth flyby of Mercury


SpaceX Starlink 189 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 31 August 2024

Blastoffs! SpaceX launches two Falcon 9 rockets in 65 minutes, nails landings

Cluster reentry explained: World's first targeted reentry


Mars' escaping water mystery 'unlocked' by Hubble and MAVEN

Tianwen-3 will return samples from Mars

Strange noise on Boeing Starliner spacecraft was just speaker feedback - Hear it here!

Meteor burns up over Earth in amazing footage from space station

Last flight of the Vega rocket:

Watch the moment an asteroid hits Earth

CFT Starliner returns to Earth uncrewed