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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of May 28, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Parachute and wiring issues to delay Starliner crewed test flight
- Space Force: Poor weather for weekend SpaceX cargo launch to International Space Station
- Boeing faces ’emerging issues’ ahead of Starliner capsule’s 1st crewed flight in July, NASA says
- Axiom-2 home safe and sound
- New record! 17 people are in Earth orbit right now
- Spain signs Artemis Accords
- NASA: Starliner will launch only when ready
- First components of Mobile Launcher 2 arrive at KSC
- Ship 25 confirmed as push for Summer replay of Starship test flight
- Shenzhou-16 astronauts arrive at China’s space station
- China to realize manned lunar landing by 2030
Space Science
- For the first time, you can see Mars as it is right now
- Soaring rhetoric: NASA mission will carry Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s words to Jupiter
- NASA’s Kepler telescope discovered 2 mini-Neptune exoplanets just before dying
- Japan has a wild idea to launch a satellite made of wood in 2024
- NASA UFO team calls for higher quality data in first public meeting
- Scientists may be able to put Mars-bound astronauts into ‘suspended animation’ using sound waves, mouse study suggests
- A new place to search for habitable planets: “The Soot Line.”
- Software problem blamed for ispace lunar lander crash
- James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn’s moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space
- UAE to land a probe on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter in 2034
Other News
- House passes bill to cut spending, suspend debt limit
- Space Force exploring options to build weather monitoring constellation
- U.S. Space Command takes over responsibility for protecting homeland from missile strikes
- Florida Space Coast selected as home of U.S. Space Force training command
- North Korea’s Chollima-1 rocket fails to reach orbit, debris recovered by South Korea
- Northrop Grumman’s deep-space radar passes critical design review
- North Korea spy satellite launch fails as rocket falls into the sea
- Japan warns it will destroy any North Korean missile that enters its territory after Pyongyang signals satellite launch imminent
- Top Republican launches investigation into delayed Spacecom relocation
- Swiss company selects Arianespace to launch first space debris removal mission
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Axiom Space’s second, four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is slated to undock on Tuesday at 11:05 a.m. EDT, and splashdown in the waters off the coast of the Florida peninsula at 11:09 p.m. EDT, if weather conditions permit. NASA is televising and streaming the undocking via NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/nasalive. Axiom Space will provide splashdown coverage through its website. www.axiomspace.com.
- Also, this week, a crew exchange aboard China’s space station is underway.
- Also on Thursday, the next Lunar Surface Science Workshop is to get underway at 11 a.m. EDT with lots of updates on Artemis missions and their science activities.
- NASA is hosting a presentation on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) on Wednesday beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT, that is to be followed by a 3 p.m. news briefing on the same topic, with both available over NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- NASA is hosting a news conference on Thursday at 12 p.m. EDT, on a pair of spacewalks planned for June 9 and 15 for the installation of two Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs) aboard the ISS. The IROSAs are to arrive aboard a SpaceX resupply mission planned for launch in early June. Four of six planned iROSAs were installed earlier as part of an ISS solar power system upgrade to support a seven-person crew and as much scientific research and technology development as possible.
- Meanwhile, the members of Congress and the White House will continue their debate over a contentious debt limit bill that could have budget impacts on civil agencies including NASA and NOAA.