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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 11 – July 16:
Human Space Exploration:
- NASA division proposing program to send scientists to ISS
- NASA and Roscosmos nearing completion of seat barter agreement
- NASA’s CAPSTONE cubesat performs 2nd engine burn en-route to the Moon
- Starship booster test ends in fiery anomaly
- Japanese startup to demo robotic arm onboard ISS in 2023
- Artemis 1 launch team overcomes obstacles to complete WDR test objectives
Space Science
- NASA temporarily grounding Mars helicopter Ingenuity to wait for dust to clear
- Jupiter, too! New James Webb photos show giant planet’s rings, moons and more
- Far beyond Pluto: What’s next for NASA’s New Horizons probe?
- Deep space signal may be a loud radio ‘heartbeat’ from a neutron star ‘on steroids’
- Perseverance is searching for the perfect landing spot for the upcoming Mars Sample Return mission
- NASA sees JWST success helping win agency support and funding
- NASA unveils new “first light” images from Webb
- World’s most sensitive dark matter detector delivers 1st results
- Webb telescope peers deeper into the universe than ever before
- What time will the huge comet K2 make its closest approach to Earth?
- Dramatic sampling shows asteroid Bennu is nothing like scientists expected
- Surprising dust strike on Webb telescope has scientists on alert
- NASA teases list of first celestial objects imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Opinion
- A turning point in space exploration
- Space and America’s future
Other News
- China prepares for July 24 launch of second space station module
- Liftoff! Pacific Northwest National Lab’s microbe study could blaze a trail for future farmers on Mars
- SpaceX launches 25th Dragon cargo mission, heads for Saturday ISS docking
- House of Representatives passes 2023 defense authorization bill
- Air Force completes draft environmental review of U.S. Space Command candidate locations
- Europe’s upgraded Vega space launcher makes inaugural flight
- NASA mission to monitor dust in Earth’s atmosphere will blast off with SpaceX this week
- Office of Space Commerce to start developing architecture for traffic management
- China to target near-Earth object 2020 PN1 for asteroid deflection mission
- Russia threatens ISS European robotic arm after ExoMars termination
- European Space Agency cuts ties with Russia on Mars rover mission
- Uncontrolled rockets pose unnecessary risk, study finds
- Department of Homeland Security publishes space policy
- Space industry warned to prepare for impact from lurking recession
- China deploys deorbiting ‘drag sail’ to aid fight against space junk
- Northrop Grumman gets $22 million Space Force contract to build small-satellite carrier bus
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- On Wednesday, the European Space Agency plans to debut the launch of its Vega-C rocket with a science payload from French Guiana at 7:13 a.m. EDT
- NASA Advisory Science Committee (ASC) will meet on Tuesday through Wednesday.
- NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies unveiling of the first scientific imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope.