ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Thursday 14 April 2022
Astronautical News
ASTRONAUTICAL NEWS Thursday 14 April 2022
A daily roundup of space news
What is China doing at the lunar distant retrograde orbit?The orbiter from China’s Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission continues operations well
after it returned samples to Earth. Kristin Burke explores why that spacecraft may now
be operating in a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon.
Redirecting ESA programmes in response to geopolitical crisis ESA’s Director General has initiated a comprehensive review of all activities currently
undertaken in cooperation with Russia and Ukraine. The objective is to determine the
possible consequences of this new geopolitical context for ESA programmes and activities
and to create a more resilient and robust space infrastructure for Europe.
NASA and UAE to share Mars mission datasetsNASA’s MAVEN mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Probe mission are paving the
way toward greater scientific collaboration and data exchange between the two Mars
orbiters.
A megaconstellation megadealAmazon announced last week the biggest commercial launch deal ever, purchasing up to
83 launches over five years from three companies, a deal worth several billion dollars.
Jeff Foust reports on the details of the contracts and what it means for a launch industry
already suffering from a lack of supply.
’Magnetic anomalies’ may be protecting the moon’s ice from melting’Magnetic anomalies’ may be shielding ice in the moon’s pitch-black craters, new
research suggests.
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