ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Wednesday 30 March 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Wednesday 30 March 2022
A daily roundup of space news
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.
Next China moon mission will need precision landing to target ice at south poleThe mission is planned to launch around 2024.
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).
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