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Weekly Links
Not as much news as usual this week. To tide you over, don’t forget to check out all the tweets from the crew of the ISS from time to time! Here is a direct link to a feed of all of their tweets.
Down to Earth
Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman has purchased Orbital ATK in an enormous $9.2 billion deal.
Australia announced at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide that they will be establishing their space agency.
https://twitter.com/exploreplanets/status/912108822663020544
In Orbit
Two orbital rocket launches since last week:
On September 22nd, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched carrying a new GLONASS navigation satellite.
On September 24th, a ULA Atlas V rocket launched from California carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Around the Solar System
Check out this amazing image of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno probe.
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex asteroid explorer conducted a close flyby of Earth to set up its orbital transit out to the asteroid belt, where it should reach its target next year.