ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Tuesday 26 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Tuesday 26 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
A small ban of ASATs, a giant leap for space security?Vice President Harris announced last week that the United States would no longer
perform tests of destructive direct-ascent ASAT weapons. Jeff Foust reports that while
the ban has limited practical effects, it could be a step forward for multilateral efforts to
develop norms of behavior in space.
Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to EarthThe crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departed the
orbiting laboratory to head back to Earth. The three businessmen and a former NASA
astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission
organized by startup company Axiom Space.
China looking at sending robotic probe to far side of moonChinese scientists and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust
and rocks from the far side of the moon - an ambitious endeavour that will likely make it
a world’s first, said a senior space agency official.
Experts issue call to regulate space debris as levels of junk mountProliferating levels of debris are posing a threat to the space environment and should be
regulated as more satellites are being launched into space, researchers say.
Edinburgh University researchers said in a study published in the journal Nature
Astronomy the debris is troublesome.
How solar storms can destroy satellites with easeIn February, most of a batch of newly launched Starlink satellites reentered after a solar
storm. Piyush Mehta explains how an increasingly active Sun poses a range of threats to
the ever-growing population of satellites in orbit.
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