ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Friday 1 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Friday 1 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
GS Yuasa Lithium Power completes PDR of scalable spacecraft batteryGS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP) has announced the successful completion of the
Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for a new scalable small form factor battery design.
With PDR complete the battery design will now move into the critical design phase.
The launch market squeezeFor all the talk of a glut of small launch vehicles, supply of larger launch vehicles is now
very constrained, thanks in part to the withdrawal of the Soyuz from the commercial
market. Jeff Foust reports on what companies and organizations are doing to cope,
including, in one case, turning to a competitor for help launching its satellites.
A record broken: Hubble finds the most distant star ever seenThe Hubble Space Telescope had found the most distant star ever seen
Russian, US ISS record-holders return to earthA record-breaking US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts reached Earth, with
tensions between Moscow and the West soaring, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.
Biden proposes $26 billion NASA budget for 2023 to fund exploration, Earth scienceArtemis and climate change are among the priorities for the Biden administration in its
2023 NASA budget request.
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