ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Tuesday 29 March 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Tuesday 29 March 2022
A daily roundup of space news
NASA finalizes plans for its next cosmic mapmakerNASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission will be able to scan the entire sky every six months
and create a map of the cosmos unlike any before. Scheduled to launch no later than
April 2025, it will probe what happened within the first second after the big bang, how
galaxies form and evolve, and the prevalence of molecules critical to the formation of life,
like water, locked away as ice in our galaxy.
China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo craft leaves space station core moduleChina’s cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 separated from the core module of the country’s
space station, announced the China Manned Space Agency.
French Startup Gama Raises $2.2 Million to Develop Solar SailsGama, a French aerospace company, has raised 2 million euros [USD $2.2 million] with
the French Public Investment Bank (BPI).
Turning astronaut waste into fuel on MarsTo survive on Mars will mean maximising use of all available resources. A team from
Spanish technological centre Tekniker is working on a system that uses sunlight to
produce fuel from astronaut wastewater.
Financing space-derived data as commodities When the major assets of space companies are spacecraft that cannot easily be
repossessed in the event of default, it can be difficult to secure some kinds of financing.
Lucien and Paul Rapp propose one solution that treats the data those spacecraft generate
as commodities.
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