What You Missed Last Week

Sep 17, 2023

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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of September 10, 2023:

Human Space Exploration:

  • Watch NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, two Russians launch to ISS today
  • RS-25 engine installation into the Artemis II SLS Core Stage begins
  • U.S. could advance SpaceX license as soon as October after rocket exploded in April
  • What would it take to build a self-sustaining astronaut ecosystem on Mars?/li>
  • ‘It’s been an incredible challenge:’ NASA astronaut tells all on setting new record for longest U.S. spaceflight (video)
  • India, NASA to cooperate on human spaceflight and planetary defense
  • Axiom Space names crew for third private astronaut mission to ISS
  • NASA’s “severely underfunded” biological and physical sciences research program needs tenfold increase
  • Mining in space: How Colorado students and engineers are helping NASA plan for lunar colonization
  • NASA’S Frank Rubio breaks U.S. spaceflight duration record
  • FAA closes Starship mishap investigation, directs 63 corrective actions for SpaceX

 

Space Science

  • Hubble Space Telescope discovers 11-billion-year-old galaxy hidden in a quasar’s glare
  • Get ready for the annular solar eclipse
  • NASA UFO report finds no evidence of ‘extraterrestrial origin’ for UAP sightings
  • Costly Mars Sample Return is squeezing smaller NASA missions
  • Key issues for the Japanese government regarding exploration and development of space resources
  • Astronomers may have discovered the closest black holes to Earth
  • How to see a newly discovered green comet this week, before it vanishes for 400 years
  • JWST might have imaged a hycean world for the first time, with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a deep planet-wide water ocean
  • India’s lunar lander finds 1st evidence of a moonquake in decades
  • DART had a surprising impact on its target
  • How NASA has prepared to scoop up an asteroid sample landing in the desert

 

Other News

  • China’s military sets up new base for space domain awareness
  • DoD submits congressionally mandated space policy report
  • Space Force to release guidelines for the use of commercial satellite services
  • Vladimir Putin meets North Korea’s Kim Jong-un at Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport for 5-hour summit
  • A year after New Shepard’s accident, Blue Origin may return to flight next month
  • Space Force to create “integrated” units responsible for acquisition, maintenance and operations
  • ITU emphasizes importance of space sustainability
  • Satellites to go flat with DiskSat
  • China launches new remote sensing satellite
  • Virgin Galactic launches third suborbital “space tourist” flight
  • ULA’s Atlas V launches National Reconnaissance Office mission

 

Major Space Related Activities for the Week

  • The U.S. House returns to action in Washington this week, with time continuing to run out for full Congressional and White House approval on a budget for the 2024 fiscal year that begins October 1.
  • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Aerospace Summit takes place in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, with aviation the focus on the first day and space on the second.
  • U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee that oversees NASA, will speak before the Washington Space Business Roundtable luncheon on Wednesday.
  • The eagerly awaited National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s decadal survey of biological and physical sciences priorities in space research, “Thriving in Space,” is to be released on Tuesday.
  • Russia’s launch of the Soyuz MS-24 with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub from Kazakhstan is planned for Friday at 11:44 a.m. EDT, with a docking to the International Space Station (ISS) two orbits later at 2:56 p.m. EDT. Live coverage of the launch begins at 10:45 a.m. EDT, and of the docking at 2 p.m. EDT, over NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/nasalive. Their mission is the next set step in an ISS crew exchange that is to end a 371-day mission by NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin on September 27.