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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:
- Black astronauts celebrate ISS, Artemis II moon missions while reflecting on history
- NASA Deep Space Network reaches “critical point” as demand grows
- Virgin Galactic to launch next space tourist flight on September 8
- How Crew-7 astronauts will study the effects of spaceflight on the human body
- SpaceX completes successful hot fire test of its massive Starship rocket
- Crew-7 docks with Space Station
Space Science
- Amateur astronomers capture Jupiter suffering spectacular cosmic collision
- Crashed Russian mission left a crater on the moon, NASA images show
- “Asteroid Autumn” begins next month with OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return
- NASA gears up for return of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
- Non-gas giant has 73 times Earth’s mass, bewildering its discoverers
- Ingenuity, the tiny Mars helicopter that could, will keep flying
- Rubble-pile asteroid Bennu has layers
- NASA conducts crucial drop test ahead of September 24 arrival of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
- Did the Tonga undersea volcano eruption cause this year’s extreme heat?
- TransAstra claims NASA contract for debris capture bag
- Chandrayaan-3 moon rover reveals surprising composition of lunar south pole soil
- A rare super blue moon arrives this week. Here’s how to see it
- Landslides on Mars suggest water once surrounded Olympus Mons, tallest volcano in the solar system
- NASA confirms multi-year delay in next New Frontiers competition
- Launch of new X-ray space telescope and lunar lander from Japan delayed
- See stunning footage captured by India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander
Other News
- A satellite deployed a drag sail and removed itself from orbit five years early
- India’s accomplishments in space are getting more impressive
- Old Soviet satellite breaks apart in orbit after space debris collision
- ESA postpones Ariane 6 hot-fire test again
- Hurricane Idalia delays rocket launch schedule as KSC, CCSFS prepare for storm
- Virgin Galactic’s president explains how VSS Unity is now flying frequently
- Biden’s decision to keep Space Command in Colorado to be investigated
- ULA delays NROL-107 launch, last Atlas NRO mission
- Spaceport America added $138 million to New Mexico’s economy last year, new report says
- ESA’s Space Rider likely to launch third quarter of 2025, program manager says
- Big constellations no longer necessarily mean small satellites
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- NASA and SpaceX will be assessing weather conditions ahead of the Crew-6 mission’s return to Earth with International Space Station (ISS) mission astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg, of NASA, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Sultan Alneyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. They are to splash down in the waters off the Florida peninsula no earlier than Saturday to end a six-month mission.
- The U.S. Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Silentbarker space domain awareness mission satellite is planned for launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday at 8:34 a.m. EDT.
- NASA will host a news briefing planned for Wednesday at 5 p.m. EDT, regarding the September 24 arrival of samples from the asteroid Bennu. An OSIRIS-REx sample canister with the materials is to descend to Earth in Utah. The briefing will air on NASA TV and stream on www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- The National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the NASA Mission Critical Workforce, Infrastructure and Technology meets at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Wednesday and Thursday with some sessions available via streaming.