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Friday, 23 October 2020

This week in space: Lunar water discovery, NASA mission snags a chunk of asteroid, Axiom Space finalises it's first private mission and loads more...


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Pick o' the podcasts:


NASA spacecast:


Off Nominal:


Universe Today: Any Updates from Venus?


Main Engine Cut-Off: Lunar politics



From the video store:


Hot-fire of ESA's booster for it's new Ariane  6 rocket


OSIRIS-REx tags the surface of the asteroid Bennu... ...nets a significant chunk...


...and here's the messy aftermath:


NASA Weekly ISS Space to Ground Report for 16 October, 2020


SpaceX launches even more Starlink satellites 


Reading material:

'Exciting discovery' about the Moon to be announced Monday (it probably relates to lunar ice somehow)


EDIT: yes it does! Here's the Space.com story, and here's the original paper


Axiom Space finalises it's first private ISS mission...


...as the crew vote!


Lockheed Martin looks to launch missions from the Shetland isles



NASA awards contracts for lunar technologies and ice prospecting payload

Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Smaller, Closer Than First Thought


Astrobotic CubeRover Prepared For Regolith Testing

A Spacecraft Could Get to Titan in Only 2 Years Using a Direct Fusion Drive










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Friday, 16 October 2020

This week in space: A record breaking trip to the ISS, the Artemis accords governing lunar exploration signed, future light sails may fly past the Sun for a boost, and loads more....


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 Pick o' the podcasts

Main Engine Cut-Off: SpaceX and L3 Harris to build missile warning satellites

We Martians: The Mars Underground




From the video store


Infrared map of Enceladus shows geologic activity in both hemisphere's


A Soyuz spacecraft makes a record breakingly fast trip to the International Space Station


Virgin Orbit aims for a second test flight by the end of this year:


Blue origin's News Shephard rocket flies a test mission for NASA Moon landing tech


China launches Gaofen-13 Earth observation satellite


Earth from Space: Laguna San Rafael National Park, Chile



Reading material:

8 nations sign the 'Artemis accords' to govern new lunar exploration...


...while China's Chang'e mission begins it's 23rd lunar day


Russia plans to launch it's own re-useable rocket in 2026


Satellite servicing company Astroscale recieve $51 million funding


The Moon's far side is the prefect spot to do SETI


Best design for a light-sail may be one that skims the Sun


'Planet' unveils 50cm resolution rapid-revisit satellite imagery


NASA selects first human-tended sub-orbital research payload


OrbitalSidekick wins $16 million U.S. Airforce contract




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Friday, 9 October 2020

This week in space: What a Biden administration might mean for NASA, ESA's new engine gets test fired, and the Moon's getting surveyed to heck...


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Pick o' the podcasts:


Main Engine cutoff: Catching up on the news


Universe Today: Could we drill for life on Mars?


Planetary Radio: What would a Biden administration mean for NASA?



From the video store:

Watch the test firing of ESA's new engine for the Ariane 6


Bepicolumbo mission to Mercury gets ready to fly past Venus


SatFire IV experiment continues to use microgravity to better understand fires


Another 60 Starlink satellites go up, another booster lands safely - SpaceX official feed...


...and NASAspaceflight.com's view from the press area.


See the power of adaptive optics with this image of the Carina nebula's 'Western Wall'.


Our world at night, seen from the International Space Station



Reading material:


The S.S. Kalpana Chawla reaches the International Space Station (and is caught by a satellite watcher doing so)

  



A fleet of cubesats prepares to search the Moon for ices...


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Saturday, 3 October 2020

This week in space: Venus' phosphine mystery deepens, ice covered lake system found on Mars, flying paramedics and loads more...


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Pick o' the podcasts


Weekly space hangout



From the video store


More subsurface lakes found on Mars


Earth sized rogue planet found


Jetpacks for paramedics


NASA's OSIRIS-REX mission prepares to land on asteroid Bennu and collect a sample


...and observes weathering, driven by the Sun's heat there: 


A chunk of space rock skips off Earth's atmosphere


Tarawa, Kiribati, from space


...and New York city


The S.S. Kalpana Chawla launches on a resupply mission to the international space station




Reading material:

A system of Martian lakes, protected by ice, may have been found


Phosphine was detected (but not recognised) on Venus in 1978


Russia launches 3 communication satellites and 18 smallsats


Space Force and NASA show interest in nuclear thermal rockets


First responders using Starlink satellites


Hayabusa 2 mission will visit another asteroid after it drops it's samples to Earth


Radio space telescope to be stationed over the far side of the Moon


Asteroid Vesta was bombarded with giant rocks earlier than the rest of the solar system


Luna radiation may pose long term health risk for moonwalkers


Kepler communications launches its own satellites


Possible evidence of cosmic strings found?


UK Space Agency hosts major event



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