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India’s current space activities

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Want to know a bit more about space activities in India? Listen to Chris Alvarez interviewing me for an episode on spacewalksmoneytalks.com. In a wide-ranging discussion, we speak about India’s private space sector, International collaboration, Anti-satellite test, Human Spaceflight and India’s plans for science missions to explore the Sun, Venus and return to Mars.

Chris also provides a handy timeline in text. So you can jump quickly to topics of interest.

ISS over Manchester

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A brief silver lining during the nation-wide Covid-19 lock-down. A few days of cloud-free sunny weather coinciding with a flyby of the International Space Station over northern England.

For more ISS passes, other spacecraft and in your location see – https://www.heavens-above.com/

  • Earthshine
  • Orion
  • ISS
  • ISS rising over Orion
  • ISS passing throgh the zenith and in to Earth’s shadow
26 March 2020

For the next few days for the UK it looks like this. For other spacecraft and for your area – wherever that may be in the world, check out https://www.heavens-above.com/

Online Course – The New Space Age

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A new online introductory (yes – for beginners) course from the Workers’ Educational Association supported by the Royal Astronomical Society. Enrolment requirements include:

  • You have been resident in the UK, EU or EEA for the last 3 years
  • You are aged 19 years or older on 1st September 2019
  • Starts at 19:00 on Tuesday 10th March 2020. Cost is £20 or free if eligible
International Space Station
Credit ESA

Over six weekly ninety-minute sessions online, the course will look at space programmes and missions being conducted by many countries and companies right now.  Starting 10th March 2020. The six sessions will cover

  1. From the Space Race to the New Space Age. How has human space exploration evolved since the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
  2. Services from space. All those satellites in space, what impact do they have on the quality of lives of people on Earth?
  3. The Private Space Sector. It has been emerging for many years. Has it finally arrived?
  4. Environmental control in space.  Can the international community apply the lessons of climate change on Earth to the space environment around Earth and beyond?
  5. Militarisation of space. Humans on Earth have always fought on the land, sea and the air. Is war in space inevitable?
  6. Humans in Space.  In this decade, will humans walk on the Moon again? Will this decade deliver, finally the promise of space tourism?
More info and Signup Here
























		
			
	
	
					

























	
	
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