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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of September 04:
Human Space Exploration:
- Hurricane Ian: Kennedy Space Center, Space Force bases OK; launches delayed
- You can watch 3 Russian cosmonauts return to Earth from International Space Station today
- Crew-5 launch preparations continue amid hurricane threat
- As Hurricane Ian closes in, NASA weighs options for Artemis I Moon rocket launch
- SpaceX’s Crew-5 astronaut mission on course for October 3 liftoff, weather permitting
- Hurricane Ian prompts NASA to move Artemis Moon rocket back to its hangar
- NASA updates exploration objectives
- NASA calls off Artemis I Moon rocket launch on September 27 due to Tropical Storm Ian
Space Science
- Ingenuity Mars helicopter notches 33rd Red Planet flight
- Mysterious Europa Gets an Extreme Closeup From NASA’s Juno Probe
- Hubble and JWST both saw the aftermath of NASA’s DART asteroid mission
- NASA and SpaceX are studying a Hubble telescope boost, adding 15 to 20 years of life
- Evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid impact found on the moon
- Juno flies past Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in 1st spacecraft visit since 2000
- In photos: The aftermath of NASA’s satellite crash with asteroid
- Moon’s best friend: Robot dogs could be future lunar explorers
- TESS finds a super-Earth and two mini-Neptunes in a single system
- NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission
- When will we know how much DART changed the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos?
- NASA’s DART mission successfully slams into an asteroid
- Asteroid Ryugu definitely from the outer solar system, says new analysis
- See Jupiter at its best in the night sky as it nears closest point to Earth since 1963
- NASA’s Juno to skim the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
- DART asteroid crash: What time will NASA probe hit Dimorphos on September 26?
Opinion
- It’s time for Congress to order the nuclear option
Other News
- Majority of tracked Russian ASAT debris has deorbited
- U.S. agency adopts new space junk rules to reduce exploration risks
- Shift to remote work draws mixed reactions
- NRO signs agreements with six commercial providers of space-based RF data
- Hurricane Ian Disrupts NASA, Commercial Launches From Florida
- China seeks new partners for lunar and deep space exploration
- Lawmakers press Air Force for final decision on U.S. Space Command
- First Mexican woman in space reflects on her lifelong dream of reaching the stars
- China launches three new satellites into space
- Chinese companies are planning to offer space tourism flights by 2025
- NASA and ESA sign lunar cooperation statement
- Sierra Space weighs public offering to help fund space station, president says
- Last Vandenberg Delta IV flies, launches classified NRO payload
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Saturday marks the start of the federal government’s 2023 fiscal year. So far, Congress has not come together on a 2023 budget nor a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown this weekend.
- As their six-month mission ends, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is to assume command of the ISS until NASA’s Crew-5 mission with her and NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins returns to Earth in October.
- Three Russian members of the Expedition 67 International Space Station (ISS) crew are to return to Earth early Thursday aboard the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft with a parachute-assisted landing in remote Kazakhstan.
- Tropical storm Ian, now a strengthening hurricane moving toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico, has prevented NASA from making a third attempt to launch the Artemis I.
- Monday night, NASA will be sharing the outcome of the first-ever demonstration of a “Kinetic Impact” strategy for diverting an asteroid on a course to strike Earth.