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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of January 16:
Human Space Exploration:
- Instead of building structures on Mars, we could grow them with the help of bacteria
- Artemis I Moon mannequins unpacked from Orion spacecraft
- Space Station activities move ahead amid Soyuz shuffle
- It looks like NASA will finally have an astronaut live in space for a full year
- Report calls on NASA to improve coordination of Artemis international partnerships
- Hal Rogers, Ken Calvert to chair key House Appropriations space subcommittees
- Soyuz MS-23 to take food to ISS as crew stay extended
- NASA and Roscosmos implement more Soyuz MS-22 contingency plans
Space Science
- Newfound alien planet has nuclear fusion going in its core
- NASA faces “difficult choices” for current and future Earth science missions
- A “disconnection event’ in Comet ZTF
- Could next-generation telescopes see that Earth has life
- NASA scales back project to send scientists to ISS
- Could humans use black holes to time travel?
- China to launch relay satellite next year to support Moon landing missions
- James Webb Space Telescope uncovers starbirth clues at ‘cosmic noon’ for 33,000 young stars
- UV radiation pulse played a role in a mass extinction event, fossilized pollen reveals
- Small laser device can help detect signs of life on other planets
- After the James Webb Space Telescope, what’s the next big thing for astronomers?
Opinion
- Despite tech reset, the space economy is here to stay.
Recently volatile as is much of the global economy, the space economy and its promise of new technologies continues to hold promise for growth, according to Karthee Madasamy, managing partner at MFV Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm. “…space technology’s potential with advancements already transforming our daily lives positions it in a stratosphere well above other tech markets disrupting industries down here on Earth,” according to Madasamy, whose optimism includes a bright future for in space manufacturing.
Other News
- Chinese startups conduct hot fire tests for mini version of SpaceX’s Starship
- FY2024 budget battles heating up already
- Watch Venus and Saturn begin joining up in the night sky this week
- Oman is building the Middle East’s first spaceport
- U.S. delivers first of two space sensors to be hosted on Japanese satellites
- Space Force: Still expecting hundreds of Florida launches in the coming years
- Circumpolar Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) is here!
- South Korea reached major space milestones in 2022
- Study: Space industry deploying more satellites that deliver sharper images
- China launches 14 new satellites
- Chinese companies to build commercial spaceport on the Horn of Africa
- Sweden opens Mainland Europe’s first satellite launch spaceport
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- The NASA Advisory Council is set to meet virtually on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- On Wednesday, the Beyond Earth Institute is hosting the “Artificial Gravity: From Cinema to Reality” webinar.
- Also Wednesday, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is hosting a townhall from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST. Acting Associate Administrator Sandra Connelly, who replaced recently retired Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, will host.
- On Friday, NASA astronaut Nichole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kochi Wakata are to team for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to continue efforts to upgrade the seven-person orbital science laboratory’s solar power generation system.
- NASA will host a news briefing previewing the spacewalk on Tuesday at 2 p.m. EST, which will be aired on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- Looking ahead just a bit, NASA’s Annual Day of Remembrance is planned for January 26 this year, an observance of the 1967 Apollo 1, 1986 shuttle Challenger and 2003 shuttle Columbia tragedies, which claimed the lives of 17 astronauts.