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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of October 01, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Leading the way to the moon: An interview with Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman (part1)
- NASA tests new kind of Artemis moon-rocket engine in dramatic ‘hot fire’ test
- ‘Astronaut archaeology’ could improve space station design
- SpaceX warns government regulations slowing Starship, could let China get ahead
- Axiom Space refines training for next private astronaut mission
- After six decades, `Gagarin’s Start’ will meet its end as a launch pad
- Test Flight to Kick Off India’s Human Exploration Plans, Including a Man on the Moon by 2040
- Imagine what life would be like on a giant rotating space station
- Axiom Space’s 3rd private astronaut crew ready for ISS mission in 2024
- First flight test of Gaganyaan mission’s crew module on October 21
- Frank Rubio readjusting to life on Earth with ease
- NASA calls off spacewalk due to leak on International Space Station
- SLS working to overcome supply chain, weld issues to complete Artemis II Core Stage this year
- Russian space station module springs a coolant leak
Space Science
- Could Neptune’s largest moon swing a spacecraft into the planet’s orbit?
- Juno completes its closest flyby of Io yet
- Snake-like magnetic fields on the sun bring scientists closer to solving a major solar mystery
- Canada to launch new satellites to monitor climate change, gather military data
- Astronomers say new telescopes should take advantage of “Starship paradigm”
- Jupiter-like exoplanets reveal our solar system may not be so unique after all
- Mars was shaken by its strongest marsquake ever in 2022. Now we know what caused it
- Dwarf planet Ceres could be a great place to hunt for alien life
- Evidence for ‘Planet 9’ may actually show our theory of gravity is incomplete
- Future Mars astronauts may chomp on Earth’s tiniest flowering plant to survive
- The mysteries of the dark universe could be solved by the Rubin Observatory
- The black hole powered jet in galaxy M87 is making stars explode
- NASA considering budget cuts for Hubble and Chandra space telescopes
- Psyche mission launches as NASA’s first trip to a metal world
- Compare images of a galaxy seen by both Hubble and JWST
- NASA’s Psyche metal asteroid mission will have a big impact on astronomy
- NASA’s first look at a sample from asteroid Bennu reveals life’s building blocks
- NASA begins analysis of samples from one asteroid as it readies launch to another
- Could AI find alien life faster than humans, and would it tell us?
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is on the move! Here’s what it will do at ‘Jurabi Point.’
- How do astronomers know the age of the planets and stars?
- The sky is full of stars and exoplanets, too
- Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope is back on track after finding its guiding stars
- Why NASA will fire three rockets at the ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse
- Why NASA is sending a mission to a metal world
Other News
- U.S. Space Force seeks to work closer with allies in face of shared threats
- Key Ariane 6 test rescheduled for November
- Virgin Galactic to perform suborbital research flight in November
- China to launch Queqiao-2 moon relay satellite in early 2024
- Blue Origin Unveils Multi-Use Platform For Earth Orbit, Beyond
- Army exploring new options to tap commercial satellite networks
- University of California and NASA Ames unveil plans for $2 billion Berkeley Space Center
- Commercial lunar landers prepare for liftoff
- ‘Ring of fire’ eclipse brings cheers and shouts of joy as it moves across the Americas
- U.S. to pursue stronger collaboration with allies in military space programs
- DoD-funded space project advances non-GPS navigation
- Getting a new civil space traffic management system on track
- More eyes in the sky: NRO building new satellites to deliver ‘10 times more signals and images’
- Virgin Galactic performs fourth commercial suborbital flight
- KSC flyover: SLC-40 crew tower rising, Roberts Road expansion detailed
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- On Capitol Hill, the House and Senate continue to struggle to reach an agreement on a spending bill for the duration of the 2024 fiscal year.
- On Wednesday, the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on human commercial spaceflight, and potentially continue a discussion on a current prohibition for regulating the emerging private human space travel market. Witnesses include representatives from Virgin Galactic, SpaceX and Blue Origin. The 2:30 p.m. EDT, session is to be webcast.
- On Thursday, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen are to team for an International Space Station (ISS) spacewalk to install a new high-definition camera and gather samples from the exterior of the orbital lab that can be assessed for the possible presence of microorganisms.
- NASA’s Mars Exploration Program Analysis group meets Friday and is to speak with the chair of a second independent review board’s finding on the future development of the NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. The mission is a challenging effort to bring samples of Mars gathered by NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Earth for analysis to determine if they hold evidence for past biological activity on the Red Planet. Rising MSR costs could lead to Congressional cancellation of the mission.