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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of January 8, 2024:
Human Space Exploration:
- Astronauts ready for first, all-European mission to the International Space Station;
- China won’t beat U.S. Artemis astronauts to the moon, NASA chief says;
- SpaceX targeting February for Starship’s 3rd flight test;
- Coalition for Deep Space Exploration urges continued strong support for NASA’s Artemis program;
- NASA delays next Artemis missions to 2025 and 2026;
- NASA expected to announce ‘months-long delay’ for crewed Artemis moon mission;
- New Vulcan rocket blasts off on maiden flight carrying privately built robotic moon lander;
- NASA adds funding to Blue Origin and Voyager Space commercial space station agreements;
- UAE will build airlock for Artemis Gateway lunar space station;
Space Science
- NASA finally unlocks asteroid sample trapped behind stuck fasteners;
- Astrobotic gets payloads working on ailing Peregrine lander;
- NASA’s troubled Mars Sample mission has scientists seeing red;
- SETI scientists begin huge new hunt for intelligent aliens;
- Private Peregrine moon lander failure won’t stop NASA’s ambitious commercial lunar program;
- The youngest planetary disks ever seen;
- How giant impacts shaped the formation of the solar system’s planets;
- Private Peregrine moon lander won’t make lunar landing due to uncontrollable fuel leak;
- 1,500 new Type 1A supernova found as part of the Dark Energy Survey;
- China launches “lobster eye” Einstein probe to unveil mysteries of X-ray universe;
- First Vulcan rocket launches commercial moon lander with a boost from Blue Origin;
- America’s first lunar lander in a half-century won’t reach the moon;
- Peregrine lander suffers anomaly after launch;
- NASA discusses moon-bound science as ULA’s Vulcan rocket gets go ahead for January 8 launch;
- Milestone moon lander mission targets an otherworldly frontier for DNA data storage;
- Mexico’s 1st moon mission will send 5 tiny robots aloft on Peregrine lunar lander January 8;
- A starring role for NASA in Biden’s push to end cancer;
- Aditya-L1: India’s solar mission reaches sun’s orbit;
Other News
- Space Force to award multiple contracts for ‘Digital Spaceport’ up to $1.9 million each;
- After its impressive first flight, here’s what’s next for the Vulcan rocket;
- Whiting takes helm of U.S. Space Command;
- Ovzon 3 successfully deploys solar arrays in geostationary orbit;
- NASA set to unveil experimental X-59 aircraft aimed at commercial supersonic travel;
- What does space smell like?
- Floating ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may be honeycomb-shaped snow;
- See the moon meet up with Mercury, Venus and Mars in the early morning sky on January 9;
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- On Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. EST, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will lead an agency news briefing on the status of the Artemis human lunar exploration program. The briefing will be aired on NASA TV and streamed over www.nasa.gov/nasalive. There are questions regarding the late 2024 and late 2025 prospects for the launch of the Artemis II and III missions that will send astronauts around the moon and back to the lunar surface as well as uncertainties over fiscal year 2024 and 2025 budgets for federal agencies including NASA.
- The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Director General Josef Ashenbacher is to host an annual agency news briefing on Thursday at 4 a.m. EST.
- Meanwhile, the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) Winter Meeting got underway on Sunday in New Orleans and continues through Thursday.
- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) annual Science Technology forum convenes Monday in Orlando and continues through Friday.
- The U.S. Senate resumes legislative activities on Monday and the House on Tuesday, with budget continuing resolution deadlines approaching on January 19 and February 2.