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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 31, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- 1st solar eruption to simultaneously impact Earth, Moon and Mars shows dangers of space radiation
- Starship Booster 9 and launch infrastructure moving into critical testing phase
- Northrop Grumman planning Cygnus upgrades
- New ISS experiment will help develop air conditioning for future space habitats
- Voyager Space and Airbus create commercial space station joint venture
- Antares launches Cygnus to ISS
- Boeing’s Mulholland urges vocal advocacy for ISS amid budget gloom
- Delayed Falcon Heavy launch pushes back Crew 7 mission
- Northrop Grumman prepares for final flight of Antares with Russian and Ukrainian components
- See Artemis II Moon astronauts train with U.S. Navy for Orion splashdown (photos, video)
- SpaceX tested ‘mega-steel pancake’ water deluge system for Starship
- Crew Dragon, Soyuz missions set for launches to ISS
- Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy
Space Science
- Asteroid collisions may be responsible for mysteriously magnetic meteorites on Earth
- Queen’s Brian May talks to Space.com about his role in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and new book on asteroid Bennu (video)
- James Webb Space Telescope unveils the gravitationally warped galaxies of ‘El Gordo’
- Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed
- Bright fireball rattles the Eastern USA
- Space weather forecasts to get a boost from new probe on the International Space Station
- NASA hears signal from Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistakenly cutting contact
- Europe turns its new $1.5 billion space telescope on, and happily it works
- Scientists successfully test algorithm for identifying potentially hazardous asteroids
- August’s Full Sturgeon Moon rises tomorrow, 1st of 2 Super Moons this month
- 3-D printed hearts on ISS could help astronauts travel to deep space
- NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
- ESA’s Aeolus assisted reentry is ‘pushing the limits’ of space tech and safety
Opinion
- Space debris will block space exploration unless we start acting sustainably
Scientificamerican.com (8/1): In an op-ed, University of Texas associate professor of aerospace engineering Moriba Jah urges a greater focus and commitment to clearing Earth orbit of debris. The population of trackable, fast-moving objects has now climbed to approximately 30,000, including no longer functioning satellites and rocket debris. “Our governing space bodies, such as NASA, ESA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, need to work with the private sector, research institutions, universities and others who are aligned with a vision for a sustainable circular space economy. They need to create a system that holds people accountable for proper stewardship of our orbital highways,” he writes.
Other News
- Rogers to launch investigation of U.S. Space Command’s basing decision
- U.S. intelligence agency selects vendors for space debris tracking project
- Planet lays off about 10% of workforce as satellite imagery company restructures
- Senate committee advances orbital debris removal bill
- House of Commons report urges rapid improvements in U.K. spaceport & launch licensing
- Nuclear space gets hot
- Biden to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado, reversing Trump decision
- Space Command stays in Colorado, infuriating Alabama delegation
- KBR wins Air Force Research Lab contract to study non-traditional orbits
- L3Harris closes Aerojet Rocketdyne deal
- Congress leaves for summer break with long to-do list when they return
- NASA Plus is the latest streaming competitor
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Northrop Grumman’s 19th NASA contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Tuesday at 8:31 p.m. EDT, with an 8,200 pound cargo of crew supplies, equipment and science experiments. With an on-time launch, the Cygnus resupply spacecraft named for the late NASA astronaut Laurel Clark will reach the ISS on Friday at 5:55 a.m. EDT. NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking over NASA TV and by streaming at www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- The ISS National Laboratory’s annual ISS Research and Development Conference (IISRDC), which is organized by the American Astronautical Society, gets underway in Seattle on Monday and continues through Thursday.
- NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) will hold a telecon on Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. EDT, summarizing its latest quarterly discussions with NASA.
- The National Space Council’s Users’ Advisory Group (UAG) meets on Friday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. EDT in an accessible virtual session. Except for pro forma sessions, the U.S. Senate and House are on break until September 5 and September 12 respectively.