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Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter the week of February 5, 2023:
Human Space Exploration:
- Shenzhou-15 taikonauts complete their first spacewalk
- Starship another step closer to launch after successful engine test
- Russian Progress resupply ship launches on flight to Space Station
- NASA reports successful test of redesigned RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center
- Here’s why Europe is abandoning plans to fly aboard China’s space station
- NASA refining Artemis exploration architecture
- NASA awaiting Congressional approval for Moon to Mars Program Office
- Russia sets sights on creating own orbital station, says chief designer
- NASA practices Artemis II splashdown recovery mission
- Soyuz MS-22 spaceship with damaged radiator to return to Earth in March
- U.S.-led Moon exploration project cannot succeed without Japan, NASA says
- NASA flight software for SLS navigates through clean first launch
Space Science
- Watch green comet near Mars Saturday with free telescope live stream
- NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s New Glenn
- ESA successfully unfurls sail to drag spacecraft out of orbit
- Tiny NASA Moon probe can’t reach lunar orbit as planned
- Astronomers make a new map of all the matter (and dark matter) in the universe
- Intuitive Machines moves landing site of first mission to the lunar south pole
- The James Webb Space Telescope just found an asteroid by total accident, its smallest object yet
- Using Hubble, researchers measure the mass of a single white dwarf for the first time
- Jupiter now has the most moons in the solar system, beating Saturn thanks to 12 newfound satellites
- The James Webb may see the first stars to appear in the universe
Opinion
- Will the NASA-DARPA nuclear engine test cause environmental protests?
Other News
- Intuitive Machines to go public as company changes landing target to lunar South Pole
- Kelly: As rivals challenge U.S. in space, commercial industry needs to ‘step up’
- ISRO’s SLV-D2 mission completed, three satellites placed in orbit
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield meets King Charles III, pushes space sustainability
- Georgia Supreme Court deals blow to Camden’s spaceport plans
- Compact on norms of behavior for commercial space operations unveiled by Hague Institute
- Small launch industry warns of “bloodletting”
- Space industry undeterred by congestion and debris
- Mysterious Russian satellite breaks up in orbit, generating cloud of debris
- Senator Mark Kelly, Roy Bridges to enter Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Ukraine terminates agreement with Russia on cooperation in field of space exploration
- Russian Elektro-L weather satellite launched on Proton-M
- How astronaut diversity changed for the better in a single NASA class
- World View emphasizes remote sensing as it prepares to go public
- United States and India expand civil space cooperation
Major Space Related Activities for the Week
- NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) is scheduled to meet publicly on Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST.
- Russia’s Progress MS-22 resupply mission is planned for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday at 1:15 a.m. EST, with arrival at the seven-person orbital laboratory on Saturday at 3:53 a.m. EST.
- President Biden is to deliver his State of the Union address to members of the U.S. House and Senate on Tuesday evening, which will likely be televised by the major news networks.
- The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is to hold a hearing on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EST on the role of the Federal Communications Committee’s (FCC) role in future satellite communications and innovation.