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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 3 – July 9:

Human Space Exploration:

  • Trash bag jettisoned from space station in waste-management first
  • NASA rebukes Russia for using ISS for political purposes
  • China Focus: Shenzhou-14 taikonauts conduct in-orbit science experiments, prepare for space walks
  • UPDATE:CAPSTONE communications restored
  • CAPSTONE suffers communications problem

 

Space Science

  • NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE probe aces 1st engine burn en route to the moon
  • Even the Webb telescope’s engineering test images manage to wow
  • James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will watch smashing worlds in high definition
  • How NASA will launch Mars samples off the Red Planet
  • Rare, elliptical craters reveal new clues about strange Saturn moons Tethys and Dione
  • We’ve seen a helicopter on Mars. Next, sailplanes?
  • NASA Mars Pathfinder: 25 years after the first rover landed on the red planet
  • NASA to unveil first James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images next week: How to watch

 

Other News

  • Russian military launches GLONASS-K navigation satellite from Plesetsk
  • ESA studies options for Vega C upper stage engine ahead of first launch
  • US military’s mysterious X-37B space plane sets new spaceflight record
  • China’s first spaceport for commercial launches starts construction in Wenchang, Hainan
  • World’s rockets on pace for record year of launch activity
  • Virgin Galactic selects Aurora Flight Sciences to build new motherships
  • Russian cosmonauts spread anti-Ukraine propaganda from space station
  • L3Harris makes strategic investment in Mynaric