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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of March 12, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Rolls-Royce secures funds to develop nuclear reactor for Moon base
- Cargo Dragon CRS-27 docks with ISS
- Space policy experts caution NASA increase merely keeps pace with inflation
- 1st Native American woman astronaut wants the world to ‘share in that joy’ after SpaceX Crew-5 flight
- Axiom Space reveals prototype spacesuit for Artemis astronauts on the Moon
- Axiom Space to reveal Artemis III moonwalking spacesuits on March 15. Here’s how to watch it live
- NASA planning to spend up to $1 billion on Space Station deorbit module
- Crew Dragon splashes down to close out 157-day mission
- Russia looking into possibility of manufacturing defect on leaky spacecraft
Space Science
- New Horizons Pluto probe notches 3 new discoveries in outer solar system
- Scientists discover signs of ‘modern’ glacier on Mars that hints at buried water ice
- Firefly wins second NASA CLPS mission
- Active volcano on Venus shows it’s a living planet
- Scientists hail DART success 6 months after historic asteroid crash
- JWST sees so many galaxies, and it’s just getting started
- NASA, SpaceX Dragon to deliver heart studies, more to Space Station
- Extremely rare far side CME
- Radio telescope on Moon’s far side will peer into universe’s ‘Dark Ages’
- NASA requests funding for ExoMars while warning MSR costs may grow
- If daylight saving time seems tricky, try figuring out the time on the Moon
- Here is how it sounds when you turn NASA spacecraft data into music
Other News
- Electron launches two Capella Space radar satellites
- Virgin Orbit pauses operations
- China launches classified Shiyan-19 test satellite from the Gobi Desert
- FAA requests more funding, staff for Commercial Space Transportation
- U.S. Space Force budget hits $30 billion in 2024 proposal
- Expert issues dire warning about cyber threats to military, commercial satellites
- NASA study assesses costs and benefits of orbital debris removal
- Space sector reacts to collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
- SpaceX, NASA targeting March 14 for next cargo launch to Space Station
- Russia launches Proton-M carrier rocket with Luch relay satellite
- China launches new remote sensing satellite
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- On Monday, the White House will release additional details for the 2024 fiscal year budget proposal presented to Congress last Thursday. NASA’s top line is $27.2 billion, a 7.1 percent increase over the 2023 appropriation. NASA has scheduled a 1 p.m. EDT, news media briefing on the spending plan hosted by Bob Cabana, NASA’s associate administrator, and Margaret Vo Schaus, the agency’s chief financial officer. Audio of the briefing will be livestreamed on www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- Meanwhile, NASA is planning to launch its next SpaceX resupply mission to the seven-person International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. EDT. A briefing on the science payloads aboard the resupply mission will be aired ahead of the launch at 11 a.m. EDT, over NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- The annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference got underway on Sunday in the Woodlands, Texas, and continues through Thursday with virtual participation.
- The South by Southwest (SXSW) gathering is underway in Austin, Texas, with a keynote session featuring the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) planned for Tuesday at 2 p.m. EDT.
- The Satellite conference, which got underway in Washington D.C. on Sunday, continues through Thursday. On Wednesday, NASA and Axiom Space plan to unveil the new lunar space suit developed by Axiom at a Space Center Houston (SCH) event. The event will be broadcast by NASA TV starting at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
- With a successful launch Tuesday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), SpaceX’s 27th commercial resupply mission is to arrive at the ISS on Thursday at 7:52 a.m. EST. The U.S. House and Senate are to be in session beginning Tuesday.