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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of June 4, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Private space station: How Axiom Space plans to build its orbital outpost
- Virgin Galactic sets late June date for first commercial SpaceShipTwo flight
- ISS finishes initial iROSA upgrade with two EVAs this month
- SpaceX aims to launch Starship again in 6 to 8 weeks, Elon Musk says
- Watch 2 NASA astronauts spacewalk outside Space Station on June 15 in this free livestream
- 3 predictions for the future of space exploration including your own trips
- Mars 2033: can we do this?
- State Department framework seeks to coordinate its space policy activities
- Astronauts install new roll-out solar array outside International Space Station
Space Science
- Instrument searching for dark energy releases first data
- Satellites keep photobombing space images. Astronomers need a fix
- Phosphorus, essential element needed for life, detected in ocean on Saturn’s moon
- Japan’s Astroscale has a new robot tug to clean up space junk. Here’s how it works (video)
- Gravimeter for ESA’s Hera mission is ready to launch to Dimorphos asteroid
- Stephen Hawking’s most famous prediction could mean that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate, new study says
- “Lensed” supernova could shed light on fundamental forces shaping Universe
- China wants to launch a Moon-orbiting telescope array as soon as 2026
- Let there be dark
- Will Artemis astronauts look for life on the Moon?
Other News
- How science fiction sparked our flights to the final frontier
- Final launch of Europe’s powerful Ariane 5 rocket delayed indefinitely
- More countries encouraged to commit to halt destructive ASAT tests
- China begins constructing commercial launch pad for solid rockets
- Deloitte calls on companies to draft long-term space strategies
- China is trying to stop its boosters from randomly crashing into villages
- Space Force eager to harness satellite-servicing technologies
- Forget space tourism. This company wants to make drug manufacturing the next big extraterrestrial business
- Extent of House-proposed spending cuts begins to sink in
- Space Force chooses SpaceX, ULA for 12 military launches in 2025
- Space Force prepares for orbital combat with Red Skies training exercises
- House FAA bill would give agency new space traffic management role
- U.S. defense companies find roadblocks in selling space technologies to allies
- China breaks its rideshare record with 26-satellite launch (video)
- U.S. leadership in space is key to solving Earth’s ‘greatest planetary challenges’: Former NASA astronaut
- Lucas introduces bill to make NOAA an independent agency
- U.S. Space Force in talks with allies about how to jointly protect space assets
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Lots will be going on this week in the U.S. House and Senate, as they continue efforts to implement the Fiscal Responsibility Act, including budgetary restrictions as they work to implement a fiscal year 2024 budget. Congressional activities also include reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- Congressional activities also include reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- On Thursday, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg are scheduled to conduct a six-to-seven-hour spacewalk to install the sixth in a series of Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs) to upgrade the International Space Station’s (ISS) solar power generation system. NASA plans to provide live coverage beginning at 7:45 a.m. EDT, on NASA TV and by streaming at www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- Meanwhile, the Secure World Foundation is hosting its 5th Summit for Space Sustainability in New York City and online on Tuesday and Wednesday.