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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of April 16, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Starship lifts off, but ends in a RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly)
- Why SpaceX’s Starship explosion is a low-key success
- SpaceX GO for 4/20 Starship launch attempt tomorrow
- SpaceX working ‘many issues’ ahead of Thursday Starship launch, Elon Musk says
- NASA releases architecture for human exploration of the Moon and Mars
- Axiom announces new government human spaceflight program
- Sierra Space and ILC Dover partner to build the space infrastructure of the future
- Russian cosmonauts complete almost 8-hour spacewalk
- Artemis II astronaut speaks to skepticism in space spending, workforce challenge
- SpaceX Dragon cargo ship departs Space Station and returns to Earth
Space Science
- Despite test flight failure, Starship poised to transform space science
- Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting rapidly and driving sea level rise, new satellite data finds
- NASA warns of near-term cost growth on Mars Sample Return
- Students set to land first robotic U.S. rover on the Moon before NASA
- Mars Sample Return in financial bind already
- New dark matter map created with ‘cosmic fossil’ shows Einstein was right (again)
- Lockheed Martin declares success demonstrating tech for in-orbit satellite servicing
- How to watch the Lyrids meteor shower between 15 and 29 April
- No asteroid impacts needed: Newborn Earth made its own water, study suggests
- Two years after its first flight, Ingenuity helicopter goes for 50 on Mars
- ESA’S JUICE mission launches for Jupiter
Opinion
- U.S. leadership of cislunar space hinges on foresight and planning
Other News
- Live coverage: SpaceX’s first full-scale Starship rocket set for Monday test flight
- New reports explain why security in space is fragile
- NASA starts consortium for ISAM technologies
- Dead NASA satellite crashes to Earth over the Sahara Desert
- Space investors see a return in industry growth capital
- Pentagon has ‘no credible evidence’ of aliens or UFOs that defy physics
- Kim says North Korea’s 1st spy satellite is ready for launch
- Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket is turning into a space policy disaster
- Starship realigns maiden launch attempt to Thursday
- Keeping watch on aggressor satellites a key challenge for U.S. Space Force
- Dead NASA satellite will crash to Earth this week
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- The SpaceX test flight of the Super Heavy with Starship rocket is slated for Monday during a 2 1/2-hour launch period that opens at 8 a.m. EDT, with a backup opportunity on Tuesday on the same schedule. On Sunday, SpaceX moved the first launch attempt to Monday at 9 a.m. EDT.
- This year’s Space Symposium runs Monday through Thursday in Colorado Springs with NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy delivering a keynote, “Our Next Steps to the Moon and Beyond” on Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. EDT, followed by a NASA Moon to Mars Implementation panel discussion on Wednesday at 4 p.m. EDT. Both of those Space Symposium events will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed on www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- The U.S. Senate and House will hold hearings on NASA’s $27.2 billion budget request for the 2024 fiscal year that begins October 1: on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. EDT, for the Senate appropriations subcommittee; and on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. EDT, for the House appropriations subcommittee. Both sessions will be webcast by the Senate and House subcommittees.
- The first of three upcoming Russian spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) is slated for Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. EDT, which NASA will air over NASA TV and stream over www.nasa.gov/nasalive. The excursions were postponed after the Soyuz MS-22 external coolant leak on December 14.