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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of August 13, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- NASA’s moon program mobile launcher rolls back to the launch pad for testing
- Artemis IV astronauts will be 1st crew to use NASA’s moon-orbiting Gateway in 2028
- No response for now from other states to join orbital station project
- Meet the SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts launching to the ISS on August 25
- Texas A&M to build new space institute near Johnson Space Center
- Boeing confident in achieving six flights to the ISS despite Starliner delay
- Spacecraft could shuttle astronauts and supplies to and from the Moon on a regular basis
Space Science
- Russia’s Luna-25 moon lander reaches lunar orbit
- You’re looking at the farthest confirmed galaxies found by JWST
- Astronomers scan 11,680 nearby stars for signals from advanced civilizations
- Intuitive Machines sets November for launch of IM-1 lunar lander
- NASA developing larger cubesat payload adapter for SLS
- Hyperbolic Comet Nishimura
- Mars keeps spinning faster every year, NASA InSight data says
- Russia’s Luna-25 moon lander snaps 1st photo of lunar surface
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to make closest flyby of Venus on August 21
- Asteroid struck by NASA’s DART probe to be radar-scanned with Hera mission
- China makes Chang’e 5 Moon samples open to international researchers
- Russian lunar probe activates scientific devices in its travel to Moon
- NASA tests major Mars mission while Russia heads back to Moon
Other News
- U.S. Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites
- China launches first geosynchronous orbit radar satellite
- Space Force pitch to private sector: ‘Help us with space protection’
- U.K. defense contractor BAE buying Ball’s aerospace division for $5.6 billion
- NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce
- Northrop Grumman to get sole-source contract for Space Force radar sites
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 74 – New Horizons’ future in the Kuiper Belt with Alan Stern
- Closing down an icon: will Arecibo Observatory ever do science again?
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- On Monday at 11 a.m. EDT, NASA and NOAA will host a news briefing on the latest climate data, amid record high temperatures across much of the U.S. and an alarming wildfire in Hawaii. The session will air on NASA TV and stream on www.nasa.gov/nasalive, with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as the host.
- At 12:10 p.m. EDT, U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas, chair of the House Science Space and Technology Committee will host a live session over the same two NASA outlets in which International Space Station (ISS) astronauts Steve Bowen and Frank Rubio answer pre-recorded questions from Oklahoma school students.