Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of March 30, 2024:
Human Space Exploration:
- SpaceX moves Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of 4th Starship flight (photos)
- NASA’s Loral O’Hara to end 204-day mission, return to Earth tomorrow night;
Coalition Member in the News – Northrop Grumman; - NASA completes final test firing of engines at Stennis Space Center;
Coalition Member in the News – Aerojet Rocketdyne; - NASA picks three companies for Lunar Terrain Vehicle feasibility studies;
Coalition Members in the News – Axiom, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman; - NASA reveals target date for first crewed Starliner flight;
- Why China might beat the U.S. back to the Moon;
- Space budget experts warn FY 2025 may be even worse for NASA
Coalition Member in the News – Boeing;
Space Science
- Model of ever-expanding universe confirmed by dark energy probe;
- Ambitious new dark matter-hunting experiment delivers 1st results;
- What’s the earliest the Moon could have formed?;
- Thousands of strange white rocks found on Mars. Will they ever be brought to Earth?;
- Want to leave the solar system? Here’s a route to take;
- A ‘horned’ comet may be visible during the 2024 total solar eclipse;
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe makes 1st-of-its-kind observation within a coronal mass ejection;
- Have we already found alien life? Multiple pieces of evidence exist that we may someday recognize as the first proof we’re not alone;
- Where are all these rogue planets coming from?;
- James Webb Space Telescope joins the hunt for newborn exoplanets;
- NASA’s mini Moon rovers go for a test drive ahead of 2025 private lunar launch (photos);
- Future Mars plane could help solve Red Planet methane mystery (exclusive)
- Life on Enceladus? Europe eyes astrobiology mission to Saturn ocean moon
- Europe’s upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed map to aid its search for ancient Red Planet life (video)
- UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory to manage $300 million NASA mission
Other News
- Space experts foresee an “operational need” for nuclear power on the Moon
- Ed Dwight to finally get his flight to space;
- Where to watch the total solar eclipse online;
- With payload questions, it’s likely Vulcan will not launch again until fall;
Coalition Members in the News – Boeing, Northrop Grumman; - China launches first of a new series of Yaogan reconnaissance satellites;
- What time is it on the Moon? OSTP wants to know;
- Russia, China catching up to U.S. in space weaponry, new report finds;
- Pentagon unveils strategy to harness commercial space tech for national security;
- ULA now targeting Tuesday, April 9, for next Delta IV Heavy launch attempt from Cape Canaveral/a>;
- Russia has a plan to “restore” its dominant position in the global launch market;
- Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida;
- Senate bills seek to reform commercial space regulations;
- China appears to be trying to save stricken spacecraft from lunar limbo;
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Russia’s Soyuz MS-24 is preparing to depart the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at 11:55 p.m. EDT, with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Belarussian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, for a parachute-assisted touchdown in remote Kazakhstan on Saturday at 3:18 a.m. EDT.
- NASA is hosting a news briefing on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. EDT regarding the next chapter in the development of Lunar Terrain Vehicles as part of the Artemis Program. The news briefing is to follow a Wednesday 11:00 a.m. EDT.
- Lunar and Planetary Institute-hosted Lunar Surface Science Workshop entitled “Science Enabled by the Artemis Base Camp.” The base camp is part of the Artemis Program’s goal of establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon.
- The final launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket scheduled for launch last Thursday was delayed due to a problem with a ground system gaseous nitrogen pump and now awaits rescheduling.
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