ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Sunday 3 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Sunday 3 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
SpaceX launches Transporter-4 rideshare mission from FloridaSpaceX launched its 12th rocket of the year. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off
from Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying dozens of
small satellites into space as part of the company’s fourth dedicated rideshare mission.
Rocket Lab launches 112th satellite to orbitRocket Lab USA, a leading launch and space systems company, has successfully deployed
two satellites to orbit for real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky, bringing the
total number of satellites deployed by Rocket Lab to 112.
Perseverance rover’s Mars samples now won’t make it to Earth until 2033 at bestThe NASA-ESA campaign to haul Mars samples back to Earth will require two Red Planet
landers instead of one. The change will delay the arrival of samples here by two years,
to no earlier than 2033.
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.
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