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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of April 23, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Nelson expects SpaceX to be ready for next Starship launch within months
- NASA’s Super Guppy delivers space shuttle module for reuse on Axiom Space’s commercial station
- China to establish organization to coordinate international Moon base
- Watch an astronaut test a ‘lunar wheelbarrow’ in Moon-like gravity for 1st time (exclusive video)
- NASA updates schedule for astronaut flights to Space Station through 2024
- Russia agrees to operate ISS through 2028
- FAA Starship investigation may take months
- NASA chief sees Russians and Americans together on Space Station through 2030
- NASA is about to lock these 4 researchers in a simulated Mars outpost for a year
- China to develop satellite constellation for deep space exploration
- Falcon Heavy delay affects Space Station manifest
- Watch NASA assemble the massive Artemis II rocket that will take humans back to the Moon (video)
- April 26 spacewalk under Russian program postponed until May
- EGS launch team applying first SLS launch lessons to future Artemis missions
- Swedish astronaut to fly to ISS on Axiom mission
Space Science
- One day astronauts will be breathing oxygen made from rocks
- NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft extends its interstellar science mission for 3 more years
- JWST sees a galaxy cluster coming together in the early universe
- China to hunt for Earth-like planets with formation-flying telescopes
- Japanese commercial lunar lander fails on landing
- Japan’s ispace says Moon lander unexpectedly accelerated and likely crashed
- This is our 1st detailed look at Mars’ most mysterious moon Deimos (photos)
- A private Moon lander will make history when it touches down on April 25. Here’s how to watch it live
- Here’s how NASA is planning to protect Earth from asteroids and comets
- The Universe sucks: The mysterious Great Attractor that’s pulling us in
- Severe geomagnetic storm
- China may include helicopter in Mars sample return mission
- ExoMars: Europe’s astrobiology missions to Mars
Opinion
- After SpaceX’s Starship launches, what happens next?
Thehill.com (4/23): In the aftermath of SpaceX’s short-lived Super Heavy/Starship test flight last Thursday, the company must rebound with back-to-back missions with increased frequency and demonstrate reuse to achieve the rocket’s promise of supporting a large range of Earth orbital and deep space missions. Those include commercial support for NASA’s Artemis program, whose goal is to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon in late 2025. SpaceX’s Starship is NASA’s current commercial partner selection for transporting astronauts between lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon.
Other News
- China plans full reusability for its super heavy Long March 9 rocket
- After nearly two years, Virgin Galactic’s space plane returns to the sky
- DoD weighing options to create ‘commercial space reserve’
- Yoon opens state visit with spotlight on space, mega deals
- Maxar eyes summer launch of WorldView Legion imaging satellites
- Space Force could benefit from commercial data to monitor satellites and debris
- FAA monitoring SpaceX’s clean-up after Starship launch
- Nelson supports continuing restrictions on NASA cooperation with China
- China building cyberweapons to hijack enemy satellites, says U.S. leak
- Indian rocket sends 2 Singaporean satellites to orbit in ‘textbook launch’
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- The U.S. House has scheduled five hearings this week on civil, commercial and national security space issues. They include a full House Space, Science and Technology Committee hearing on NASA’s 2024 budget request scheduled for Thursday at 1 p.m. EDT
- Japan’s commercial ispace is looking to Tuesday to carry out the first commercial spacecraft landing on the Moon. The Hakuto-R M1 lander will also deliver a United Arab Emirates (UAE) rover, Rashid. Backup dates for the livestreamed ispace touchdown are April 26, May 1 and May 3.
- NASA’s Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) is meeting on Monday and Tuesday at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and livestreaming the morning sessions.
- Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are slated for the second in a series of three spacewalks to upgrade the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module on Tuesday starting at 5:40 p.m. EDT.
- On Friday, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi is to join NASA’s Steve Bowen for an ISS spacewalk to continue an upgrade to the solar power system, starting at 9:15 a.m. EDT. The spacewalk will be the first for an Arab astronaut. Both spacewalks are to be broadcast by NASA TV and streamed over www.nasa.gov/nasalive.