Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of January 1, 2024:
Human Space Exploration:
- Wearable solar-powered gadget automatically regulates body temperature;
- A commander’s lament on the loss of a historic SpaceX rocket;
- NASA’s most high-risk endeavor in decades and other boundary-pushing space missions planned for 2024;
- 12 space medicine findings from 2023 that could help astronauts reach Mars one day;
- Will Artemis II launch to the moon in 2024? NASA has a lot of work ahead;
- Japan astronaut likely to land on moon in U.S.-led program; Tokyo aiming for late 2020s;
- ISRO plans to launch India’s first international space station by 2028, says S. Somanath;
Space Science
- For Astrobotic, big risk (and bigger reward) ride on private Peregrine moon lander’s January 8 launch
- Japan delays MMX Mars moon sample-return mission to 2026
- NASA awards funds to study deep-space interferometer and other far-out ideas
- One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals
- ULA ready for inaugural Vulcan flight
- Near-Earth asteroids: Hunting and tracking upcoming encounters
- Watch a full Martian day, from dawn to dusk
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter sets new distance record on the Red Planet
- Ingenuity lessons being incorporated into Mars Sample Return
- Juno makes its first ultra-close flyby of the volcano-covered moon Io
- A spacecraft at Mars watched a dust storm lift tons of grains in a short time
- In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA
- NASA pushes ahead with Earth System Observatory despite uncertain budgets
- Two U.S. firms to launch spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other
- Japan spacecraft enters lunar orbit for moon landing on January 20
- 6 exciting space missions set to launch in 2024
- India launches X-ray astronomy satellite
- After 2 years in space, the James Webb Space Telescope has broken cosmology. Can it be fixed?
- Top astronomy events for 2024
- Quadrantid meteor shower 2024: The year’s 1st meteor shower blazes over North America on January 3
Other News
- Biden administration to consult with Navajo about human remains on the moon
- Space Force seeking a digital overhaul of its aging launch infrastructure
- Bumpy road ahead for the remainder of the 118th Congress
- Where will the most crowded places be for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024?
- DoD’s X-37B spaceplane flies again
- Spaceports need social scientists. Here’s why.
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine 1 is planned for launch early next Monday as the potential first private sector initiative to successfully carry out a commercial moon landing as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. The 2:18 a.m. EST, launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, atop the inaugural launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket will be televised and streamed by NASA beginning at 1:30 a.m. EST.
- NASA is also hosting live pre-launch science and launch readiness briefings regarding the Peregrine/Vulcan Centaur mission on Thursday at 11 a.m. EST, and Friday at 3 p.m. EST.
- The American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) winter meeting convenes in New Orleans next Sunday through Wednesday.
- The U.S. Senate and House remain in recess until January 8 and 9 respectively.