Qua lanceringen werd het een stuk rustiger dan verwacht. Enkel China lanceerde een satelliet. Een aantal andere werden uitgesteld. Zoals bijvoorbeeld de eerstvolgende bevoorradingsvlucht naar het ISS. Daar vertrok de vorige “ruimtevrachtwagen”. De Cygnus zette ondertussen nog enkele cubesats uit. En het is nu officieel: BEAM blijft nog een hele tijd deel uitmaken van het ruimtestation.

Ook deze week weer enige artikelen in het kader van 50 jaar Apollo. Ondertussen nadert die andere maanrace, de Google Lunar X-Prize stilaan zijn ontknoping. Twee kandidaten lijken alsnog af te vallen door gebrek aan geld.

In het (inter)planetaire nieuws hebben we het o.a. over de recentste koerscorrectie van New Horizons en hoe Opportunity de Marswinter ook deze keer zonder kleerscheuren lijkt door te komen.

Afronden doen we met de “nieuwe” ruimtevaartindustrie. Niet alleen zijn er steeds meer toepassingen die ook commercieel beginnen door te breken, allerlei nieuwigheden beginnen steeds meer hun intrede te doen in de ruimtevaart, zoals bijvoorbeeld het Internet Of Things. Maar ook het etiket “Made In Space” wordt meer en meer realiteit, met allerlei nieuwe toepassingen die nu en in de nabije toekomst in het ISS uitgetest zullen worden.

China lanceert aardobservatiesatelliet.
NasaSpaceFlight: Long March 2D lofts latest Yaogan Weixing satellite – named LKW-1.
Spaceflight101: China’s Long March 2D Launches LKW-1 “Land Survey Satellite”.

Twee filmpjes.
CGTN: China launches land exploration satellite on Sunday.
SciNews: Long March-2D launches remote sensing satellite.

Het is nu officieel: BEAM blijft langer aan het ISS gekoppeld.
NASA: NASA Extends Expandable Habitat's Time on the International Space Station.
SpaceCom: Private Inflatable Habitat Will Stay at Space Station for at Least 3 More Years.

Nog een filmpje:
NASA Johnson: NASA Expands BEAM’s Mission.

Cygnus verlaat het ISS.
NASA: Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft at Sunrise.
NasaSpaceFlight: “Flawless” OA-8E Cygnus departs ISS for 12 days of free-flight activities.
Spaceflight101: Cygnus OA-8 Cargo Craft Departs ISS after Three-Week Stay for CubeSat Deployment & Re-Entry.
SpaceCom: Cygnus Spacecraft Departs the Space Station: Here's the Awesome Science It's Doing.
NanoRacks: NanoRacks Completes 4th External Cargo Ship Satellite Deployment Mission, Largest to Date.
NASA: JPL Deploys a CubeSat for Astronomy.

De filmpjes.
NASA: Space Station Crew Bids Farewell to U.S. Commercial Cargo Spaceship.
Space Videos: Orbital ATK Cygnus Leaves The ISS - Sped Up Video.
Volgend filmpje heeft het – naast de bosbranden – ook over het vertrek van de Cygnus-capsule.
Space To Ground: Space to Ground: California Wildfires: 12/08/2017

Volgende bevoorradingsvlucht uitgesteld.
SpaceCom: SpaceX Cargo Launch to Space Station Pushed to Dec. 12.
SpaceRef: NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 5 December 2017 - New Cargo Launch Date Set.

De statische motortest was in elk geval geslaagd. De beelden:
America Space: SpaceX CRS-13 Test Fire & Return of SLC-40 to Service.

CBS News: SpaceX to resume launches from rebuilt pad.
Space News: New and improved Florida pad ready to resume Falcon 9 launches.

Komt er ooit bier op Mars?
En de vlucht is ook van belang voor het latere bier op Mars.
SpaceCom: Budweiser's Space-Bound Barley Seeds to Advance First 'Bud on Mars'.
New Scientist: Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think.

Twee filmpjes.
NowThis News: Budweiser Wants To Brew Beer On Mars | NowThis.
Mashable Daily: Budweiser Is One Step Closer to Bringing Beer to Mars.

Meer ISS-nieuwtjes.
ESA: VITA Mission Wrap-Up.

SpaceRef: Astronomy CubeSat Deployed From ISS.

Science At NASA: ScienceCasts: An Out of This World Research Lab (filmpje).

SpaceCom: Just Like Home: Space Station Has Same Microbes As Your House.
Cosmos: The International Space Station is swarming with bacteria.

Kennislink: Zonder handen werken in de ruimte.

Slecht weer zorgt voor uitstel Electron-lancering.
SpaceCom: Rocket Lab's Electron Launch Delayed as Bad Weather Looms.
Een persmap van de lancering kan je hier downloaden. 

Blue Origin gaat deze week opnieuw lanceren.
Space News: Blue Origin preparing to resume test flights from West Texas.
Parabolic Arc: Blue Origin Plans New Shepard Flight Next Week.

SLS/Orion.
NasaSpaceFlight: NASA evaluates EM-2 launch options for Deep Space Gateway PPE.
NasaSpaceFlight: Protecting SLS from Fire and Ice – TPS foam application proceeding at MAF.

Parabolic Arc: Space Florida Announces Partnership with NASA for Orion Testing.
ESA Orion Blog: European Service Module Structure.
ESA Orion Blog: Orion’ European Service Module “Wall” Panels.
ESA Orion Blog: Orion European Service Module-2 Structure Complete.

Nog wat raket- en lanceernieuwtjes.
Florida Today: Launch delay ends United Launch Alliance's 2017 schedule.

NASA: NOAA’s GOES-S Arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for Launch Processing.
Lockheed Martin: On the Tarmac: Shipping the Lockheed Martin GOES-S Satellite to KSC (filmpje).

Parabolic Arc: Vector Selects Construction Team, Begins First Orbital Vehicle Production.
TucsonCom: Small-satellite launch company moving ahead with Tucson plant, HQ.

Space News: Relativity Space aims to 3D print entire launch vehicles.

Parabolic Arc: ULA Selects L3 Technologies for Vulcan Centaur Avionics.

Albuquerque Business First: Virgin Galactic to relocate dozens of Mojave employees to Spaceport.

GovUK: Transport Minister visits Reaction Engines to see space sector technology.

Space News: Russia looks past Soyuz-2 failure to Soyuz-5.

SpaceNewsFeed: Spaceflight prepares to launch eleven spacecraft on India’s PSLV-C40.

Asian Review: New engine could make or break Japan's rocket program.

Over de recentste Noordkoreaanse raketlancering.
SatTrackCam: The Curious Incident of the ICBM that Launched by Night.

Problemen voor een aantal Google Lunar X-Prize kandidaten.
Parabolic Arc: Code Red! SpaceIL Needs $20 Million Stat to Save Satellite Program.
Parabolic Arc: Team Indus Tries to Crowd Fund $35 Million to Win Moon Race.
Space News: Google Lunar X Prize teams make last-ditch fundraising appeals.

Een terublik op Apollo.
NASA: 50 Years Ago: The Lunar Landing Training Vehicle.

EurekAlert!: UT Dallas researchers develop techniques to analyze thousands of hours of Apollo mission audio.
Collect Space: PTScientists 'Mission to the Moon' to take care not to harm Apollo 17 landing site.
Room: Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy.

NASA: The Historic Apollo Mission Control Center Will Be Restored.

Branden in Californië gezien vanuit de ruimte.
NASA: New Satellite Imagery Shows Columns of Smoke from California Wildfires.
BBC: California wildfires: Flames seen from space.
ESA: California in flames.

Het (inter)planetaire nieuws.

Zon:
NASA Goddard: Lasers Fired At NASA's Parker Solar Probe (filmpje).
NASA Goddard: Seeing the Sun in 1,000 different colors with NASA’s TSIS-1.

Mercurius:
ESA: Mercury transfer module in space simulator.

Venus:
The Planetary Society: The case for Venus.

Aarde:
NASA: NASA’s CATS Concludes Successful Mission on Space Station.
DLR: Sentinel-5P - a quantum leap in atmospheric observation.
ESA: Sentinel 5P ziet luchtvervuiling boven België.
Space News: UrtheCast, Beijing Space View Technology forge imagery distribution pact.
Parabolic Arc: Earth-i Constellation to Provide Full-Color Video From Space.
BBC: US firm picks UK for weather satellites.
NASA: NASA CubeSat to Test Miniaturized Weather Satellite Technology.
NASA: NASA, University of Maryland Join Forces on Food Security.
DLR: Assistance from space: satellite data for digital agriculture.

Maan:
ESA: VITA mission 'Timelapse a Day' edition – Moonrise.
The Planetary Society: South Korea's first lunar mission planned for 2020.
Russian Space Web: Luna-Glob's stop and go.
Spaceflight Insider: New Russian lunar orbiter contracted to be built.

Mars:
EurekAlert!: Mars' atmosphere well protected from the solar wind.
PhysOrg: Clay minerals on Mars may have formed in primordial steam bath.
NASA: NASA Mars Rover Team's Tilted Winter Strategy Works.
NASA JPL: Engineering for Mars: Building the Mars 2020 Mission (360 video).
Newsweek: UFO hunters say they found a cannonball on Mars – Only problem is it’s tiny and definitely not a cannonball.

Jupiter:
Astronomy: Evidence for plate tectonics mounts on Europa.

Pluto:
New Horizons Website: New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt.

Bennu:
NASA: NASA Selects Participating Scientists for Mission to Asteroid Bennu.

Psyche:
NASA JPL: NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid.
Cosmos: Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA.

Rosetta:
Astronomy: Organic molecules make up half of Comet 67P.

Voyager:
New Scientist: Interstellar probe Voyager 1 is alive and well.

Nieuws van wetenschappelijke satellieten.
ESA: Green light for continued operations of ESA science missions.

ESA: Herschel data links mysterious quasar winds to furious starburts.

NASA: How Hardy Is Webb? A Q&A About the Toughness of NASA’s Webb Telescope.
NASA Watch: Hearing on NASA Space Telescopes.
Space News: Independent review to examine JWST launch plans.

Space Newsfeed: First results from Microscope satellite confirm Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity with unprecedented precision.

Plantjes in de ruimte.
NTRS: Food Production for Space Exploration (met link naar een interessante presentatie over plantjes in het ISS).
EuroNews: Dutch lab gives birth to ‘Martian’ worms.
ESA: Astroplant introduction (filmpje).

Om af te ronden: De nieuwe ruimtevaartindustrie.
Space News: 5 Commercial Markets for Space.
Space News: 5 Markets | Made In Space turns to On-orbit Metal Manufacturing.
Space News: 5 Markets | The Climate Corporation offers satellite and aerial imagery to help farmers manage crops.
Space News: 5 Markets | Iridium satellites help utilities keep tabs on high-voltage power lines.
Space News: 5 Markets | Puerto Rico turns to inflatable satellite antennas for communications.
Space News: 5 Markets | KVH turns to Intelsat EpicNG to speed up maritime broadband service.

Space News: Investor interest in space companies remains strong despite no big deals.
Space News: Tethers Unlimited expands to fulfill additive manufacturing orders.
Space News: UK aims to become space startup haven to achieve growth target.
Space News: Industry sees new opportunities for space manufacturing.
Space News: Fleet details 100 nanosat constellation for Internet of Things connectivity.

Via Satellite: From Looking to Listening: NewSpace Changes Course.

CBS InSights: 7 Small-Satellite Startups Bringing Space Down To Earth.
Via Satellite: Six New Entrants to the Satellite Industry in 2017.

The Space Review: Establishing a European NewSpace industry.
Space News: Luxembourg to invest in Spire.

Parabolic Arc: Loft Orbital Solutions Raises $3.2 Million.

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