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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of January 22, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Continued vigilance urged as 20th anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy nears
- ESA is no longer planning to send astronauts to China’s Tiangong space station
- SpaceX completes fueling test, will now work toward massive engine firing test
- NASA’s fatal Challenger launch still echoes through the agency today
- NASA and DARPA to partner on nuclear thermal propulsion demonstration
- NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts may stay on Space Station for a full year after Soyuz leak
- Astronauts complete spacewalk to prep for new ISS solar arrays
Space Science
- Rubble-pile asteroids are ‘giant space cushions’ that live forever
- NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission adds 10th space rock target
- We didn’t die from 2023 BU, but why did we only find out about the asteroid on Saturday?
- NEO Surveyor launch delayed despite funding boost
- Astronomers pin down the age of the most distant galaxy: Seen 367 million years after the Big Bang
- A huge asteroid is going to fly by Earth. It’s one of the closest approaches ever, NASA says
- Hunga Tonga undersea volcano eruption likely to make ozone hole larger in coming years
- Study shows how cells could help Artemis astronauts exercise
- James Webb Space Telescope suffers 2nd instrument glitch
- JWST sees frozen water, ammonia, methane and other ices in a protostellar nebula
- Perseverance Mars rover’s samples will be curated at new NASA office in Houston
- InSight’s importance: Seismic measurements, new terrain highlight ground-breaking mission
- NASA to cooperate on Israeli astrophysics mission
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
- Why the Hubble telescope is still in the game even as JWST wows
Other News
- SpaceX and astronomers come to agreement on reducing Starlink astronomy impact
- Japan begins busy year with classified IGS-Radar 7 launch
- Democrat threatens to hold up Pentagon nominees over Space Command HQ decision
- Astrobotic completes Peregrine testing
- Europe grappling with space access challenges
- Buckle up, it could get bumpy: The space economy’s vaunted resilience will be tested in 2023
- Rocket Lab launches 1st Electron booster from U.S. soil in twilight liftoff
- ESA seeks global adoption of “zero debris” policy
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- Leadership from NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will join to host a “Fireside Chat ” on Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST regarding their collaboration on expanding “Advanced Propulsion Technologies,” advances needed to enable human exploration expeditions to Mars and other deep space destinations. The presentation will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed on www.nasa.gov/nasalive.
- Thursday, January 26, will mark NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance, a tribute to the 17 NASA astronauts who lost their lives pioneering the human exploration of space: the Apollo 1 crew on January 27,1967; the shuttle Challenger crew on January 28, 1986; and the shuttle Columbia crew on February 3, 2023. The lineup of NASA hosted remembrances includes a ceremony on Thursday at 10 a.m. EST, that will be broadcast from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on the launch site’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
- NASA’s next crew launch to the International Space Station (ISS) is planned for a February 26 liftoff on a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission. NASA is hosting news briefings with mission managers and the astronauts on Wednesday at Noon and 2 p.m. EST. They too will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed.