ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Saturday 23 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Saturday 23 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
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.
US pledges to end anti-satellite missile testsThe United States announced a commitment to stop testing anti-satellite missiles that
generate dangerous debris in space, a measure described as "an important step" by the
head of NASA.
Chinese satellite obtains global gravity field dataChina’s Tianqin-1 satellite has acquired the global gravity field data during its in-orbit
operation, according to Sun Yat-sen University in south China’s Guangdong Province.
Make Uranus mission your priority, NASA toldThe US space agency NASA should prioritise a mission to Uranus, an influential panel of
scientists says. The "ice giant" is the seventh planet in our Solar System, orbiting the
Sun 19 times further out than Earth. It’s only ever been visited once before, in a brief
flyby by the Voyager-2 probe in 1986. Researchers think an in-depth study of Uranus can
help them better understand the many similarly sized objects now being discovered
around other stars. The recommendation is made in a document published by the US
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).
Investing in these innovations will get us to Mars and beyondThe further exploration of the solar system, including human missions to Mars, requires
more than just new launch vehicles. Dylan Taylor discusses some other enabling
technologies for missions to Mars and beyond.
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