ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Tuesday 5 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Tuesday 5 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
Keep space dialogue going, astronautics federation saysRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed many space ties to the breaking point. Philippe
Cosyn describes how one organization wants to keep peaceful cooperation in space going
despite what’s happening on Earth.
What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About MarsA new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is
slower on the Red Planet than on Earth and that, mostly, a deep silence prevails. Listen
closely to sounds from Mars, recorded by NASA’s Perseverance: the rover’s mechanical
whine and click in a light Martian wind; the whir of rotors on Ingenuity, the Mars
helicopter; the crackling strike of a rock-zapping laser. An international team of scientists
has done just that, performing the first analysis.
Japan Conducts Tests on H3 Rocket’s LE-9 Engine to Address Instability IssuesThe LE-9 engine is considering multiple proposals in parallel as countermeasures to the
problems that occurred in the past tests, and this test is to verify to narrow down the
countermeasure proposals.
Russian space agency suspends ISS cooperation over sanctionsRussia has suspended cooperation with other nations involved with the International
Space Station over sanctions levied amid the war in Ukraine.
Successful launch shows new rocket factory’s solid stepsChina launched a Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Center in Northwest China, deploying three satellites into space, according to
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC). The rocket placed the Tianping
2A, 2B and 2C satellites into their planned orbit.
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