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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of July 18 – July 22:
Human Space Exploration:
- Crew Dragon mission delayed after booster damaged in transport
- Spacewalkers configure new Space Station robotic arm on rare Russian-European EVA
- NASA safety advisers warn ISS transition plans on “precarious trajectory”
- SLS Moon rocket booster test-fired in Utah
- Russian and European astronauts to conduct rare joint spacewalk
- Northrop Grumman to conduct FSB-2 SLS solid rocket booster test
- NASA sets late August and early September launch dates for Artemis I
- NASA authorization included in CHIPS Act
- Tianzhou 3 cargo ship undocks from China’s Tiangong space station
- Space flames and microgravity liquids: Astronauts mark 20 years with Space Station equipment
- International Moon Day 2022: History, significance and why it is celebrated
- China prepares for July 24 launch of second space station module
- Northrop Grumman taps Solstar for HALO module Wi-Fi
- Saudi Arabia signs Artemis Accords
- ‘Rebooting’ the Moon: NASA’s Artemis program aims for lunar sustainability
- Rogozin removed as head of Roscosmos as seat barter agreement signed
Space Science
- Jupiter’s huge moons prevent it from developing beautiful rings like Saturn
- Draper wins NASA contract for farside lunar lander mission
- As Webb begins observing exoplanets, scientists use Spitzer data & brown dwarfs to reveal how silicate clouds form
- 5 Jupiter mysteries Europe’s space agency hopes to solve with its juice mission
- Relativity to launch Impulse Space’s Mars Lander as early as 2024
- Most Americans think NASA’s $10 billion space telescope is a good investment, poll finds
- NASA hosts contest to design starshade that will help find Earth-like planets
- NASA delays launch of rover designed to search and drill for water on the Moon
- SpaceX cargo ship delivers dust storm instrument to International Space Station
- NASA commissions independent review of delayed Psyche mission to metal asteroid
Other News
- 77 launches conducted during first half of 2022 as access to orbit expanded
- Catch the Moon and Mars cozying up to each other on Thursday
- NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch Roman Space Telescope
- The great British lift-off
- Two spacecraft could work together to capture an asteroid and bring it close to Earth for mining
- L3Harris, Northrop Grumman to build 28 missile-tracking satellites for U.S. Space Development Agency
- UAE earmarks $820 million to fund ambitious space plans
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- The Beyond Earth Institute is to convene virtually on Thursday at 2 p.m. EDT for a webinar, “Artemis Base Camp: A Trailhead for Sustainable Lunar Development?”
- NASA’s Exploration Science Forum convenes Tuesday for two days in Boulder, Colorado.
- The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) began its eight-day, 44th Scientific Assembly in Athens, Greece on Saturday
- On Monday, the three-day American Astronautical Society’s John Glenn Memorial Symposium starts in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Dmitry Rogozin, who was dismissed Friday as head of Roscosmos, ordered an end to Russian support of the European robotic arm
- Spacewalk is planned on Thursday to continue the configuration of the European robotic arm launched last year as part of the Russian Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module