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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of August 20, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- NASA orders 24-hour delay of Crew Dragon launch to Space Station
- Russian Progress cargo craft docks to Space Station to replenish crew
- We could start a settlement on Mars with just 22 people, scientists say
- ‘He’s made a huge sacrifice’: U.S. astronauts praise Frank Rubio for staying a year in space
- SpaceX to launch next Starship test flight ‘soon,’ Elon Musk says (photos)
- Artemis III rocket hardware arrives in Florida for crewed moon mission
- Polaris Dawn mission likely to slip to 2024
- Russia launches cargo ship to the International Space Station
- SpaceX, NASA declare Crew-7 astronaut mission ‘go’ for launch
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts excited for upcoming mission to International Space Station
- With NASA’s mobile launcher on the move, here’s a road map to Artemis II
Space Science
- OSIRIS-REx science chief reveals NASA’s 1st asteroid sampling mission nearly didn’t make it (exclusive interview)
- NASA prepares for space research decadal survey
- India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon rover Pragyan rolls onto the lunar surface for 1st time
- Chandrayaan-3: India becomes fourth country to land on the moon
- New Horizons seeks help for Uranus and Neptune observations
- What time will India’s moon mission Chandrayaan-3 land August 23? Here’s how to watch live
- We still don’t know what dark matter is, but here’s what it’s not
- Looking past Luna 25’s lunar landing failure: What’s next?
- LUNA-25’S engines fired longer than planned
- Redwire and Sierra Space partner on commercial space station biotech research platform
- Flagship Chinese space telescope to orbit with space station
- JWST’s hunt for distant galaxies keeps turning up surprises
- Russia’s first robotic moon mission in nearly 50 years ends in failure
- NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite is ready to hunt for water on the moon
Other News
- Electron rocket uses previously-flown engine for launch radar-imaging satellite
- European Union nations join ASAT testing ban
- Another North Korean space launch fails
- Russia has declared a new space race, hoping to join forces with China. Here’s why that’s unlikely
- DARPA wants to build a ‘thriving commercial economy’ on the moon in 10 years
- LA company Squid3 Space develops camouflage for satellites
- ClearSpace-1 space debris cleanup target in orbit just got struck by space debris
- Axiom Space raises $350 million
- Space Development Agency awards contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman for 72 satellites
- U.S. government warns of foreign intelligence threats to the space industry
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Following the weekend loss of Russia’s Luna-25 moon landing mission, there’s likely to be enhanced attention focused on India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon lander/rover mission, which is on course to touchdown on Wednesday at 8:34 a.m. EDT. The mission launched on July 14 and entered lunar orbit on August 5. It was four years ago that the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-2 failed to land on the moon.
- Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission, which is part of the multinational XRISM mission, is set to launch on Friday, though a date for its moon landing has not been announced. XRISM is a Japanese, U.S. and European X-ray telescope.
- NASA’s SpaceX contracted Crew-7 mission is to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at 3:47 a.m. EDT Launch and docking activities will be televised on NASA TV and streamed on www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- Russia’s MS-24 Progress re-supply mission is scheduled to launch to the ISS on Tuesday at 9:08 p.m. EDT, with a docking on Thursday at 11:50 p.m. EDT. NASA’s providing live coverage of the liftoff and arrival. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, who has trained to launch on September 15 to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz capsule with two cosmonauts, will be conducting pre-flight interviews on Wednesday at 9 a.m. EDT. Again, NASA will air the event.