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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of March 5, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Biden requests another big increase for NASA, wants space tug to deorbit ISS
- NASA to reveal Artemis II Moon astronauts on April 3
- Want Artemis to succeed? Virtual reality can help
- Latest astronaut from UAE getting used to space
- No major issues found with Artemis I mission
- NASA targets November 2024 for Artemis II launch to send humans to orbit Moon
- NASA shifts focus of suborbital crew program
- Orbital outpost avoids collision with space debris
- Cosmonauts on ISS finish installing customized seats on Soyuz MS-23
- Watch NASA test fire new and improved Artemis Moon rocket engine (video)
- NASA and Roscosmos planning to add mission to seat barter agreement
- What will ethical space exploration look like?/li>
Space Science
- NASA scientists push for a treaty to tackle risky ‘space junk’
- NASA tracks a newly-discovered asteroid that has a ‘small chance’ of hitting Earth in 2046
- Japanese lunar lander company iSpace to go public
- China’s rover used radar to look deep beneath the surface of Mars. What did it find?
- The big reveal: What’s ahead in returning samples from Mars?
- JPL making progress on Psyche independent review recommendations
- NASA’s IBEX spacecraft bounces back from glitch to study edge of solar system
- Asteroids may have picked up building blocks of life from interstellar clouds
- Lonestar raises $5 million for lunar data centers
- The universe may have started with a Dark Big Bang
- Machine learning joins the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Other News
- ‘Space resilience’ highlighted in Biden’s proposed defense budget
- Alabama, Colorado face off on U.S. Senate floor in Space Command feud
- JAXA: Failed H3 rocket had anomaly in power system
- Boeing sees Space Launch System rocket fit for Pentagon missions
- Starfish Space raises $14M to advance development of satellite servicing vehicles
- U.S. intelligence report: China’s commercial space sector to become global competitor by 2030
- U.S. Space Force game plan: Compete with China, prevent shooting war in orbit
- Relativity Space scrubs first Terran-1 launch, awaits new NET date
- H-3 failure could deal setback for Japan’s entire space policy
- UFOs and UAPs explained: This is how NASA classifies unidentified aerial objects
- Japan’s new H3 rocket fails
- Nozzle erosion blamed for Vega C launch failure
- NASA proposes final extension of ISS cargo contracts
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- The Biden White House is expected to submit its budget proposal for the 2024 federal fiscal year, which begins on October 1, to Congress on Thursday.
- NASA’s Crew-5 mission flyers, NASA’s Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada; Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, are expected to depart the International Space Station (ISS) this week, potentially on Thursday, for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the ocean waters off the Florida Peninsula to end a mission that began with an October 5 launch.
- SpaceX’s 27th NASA-contracted resupply mission launch to the ISS is planned to lift off no earlier than Friday. But like the return of Crew-5 it’s dependent on the weather outlook and scheduling issues.
- The American Astronautical Society’s (AAS) annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday in Laurel, Maryland. The 2023 International IEEE Aerospace Conference began Saturday and continues through this week in Big Sky, Montana.
- Japan is planning to make a second attempt to launch its new H3 rocket from Tanegashima Monday evening, US time.
- Relativity Space is planning the initial launch of its Terran-1 3-D printed rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, with live stream viewing available.