ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Wednesday 6 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Wednesday 6 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
Amazon signs on launch partners for space internetAmazon announced deals for scores of launches to deploy a "constellation" of satellites in
low orbit around the Earth to provide internet service to people below. Amazon said that
its contracts with Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are the
largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history.
UAE working with Blue Origin to establish spaceportIbrahim Al Qasim, deputy director general of the UAE Space Agency has said that an
agreement signed in 2019 with Virgin Galactic to bring space tourism flights to Al Ain
Airport is no longer in effect, without explaining further. Instead, the country is now
working with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to set up spaceports.
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.
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