Seradata’s recommended space stories – October 2024

by | Oct 31, 2024 | History, International Space Station, Military space, Satellites

We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to.
Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of October (space orders can be found in another post):

Major science missions

Europa-Clipper mission is finally on its way to the Jupiter-Europa system after a Falcon Heavy launch

Falcon 9 sends Hera asteroid strike analysis mission on its way

 

Anomalies and failures

Falcon 9 upper-stage fault during deorbit worries some

ACS3 Solar sail falls into uncontrollable spin

 

Human space

Crew Dragon returns four crew back to Earth, but one becomes ill after landing

First USSF ‘guardian’ astronaut in space flew into orbit in late September

NASA understands there is a heatshield charring/gouging issue with Orion…even if it won’t give out details

China is on schedule to land humans on the Moon in time for 2030

Ars Technica notes what should be done for the US to keep up with the Chinese

Michael Bloomberg slates Artemis as a waste of time

China’s Deep Blue Aerospace plans for human suborbital spaceflight in 2027

NASA may not want continuous human LEO presence after all

No surprises that after mishap NASA delays first fully operational Starliner mission

Boeing to take further US$250 million charge on accounts for troubled CST-100 Starliner 

Space Technology

Using a Starfighter as the first stage of a cubesat launcher

Inversion gets launch and re-entry licence from FAA for its Ray reusable cargo spacecraft

Vast plans to launch Haven-1, its first small single module space station, next year – but it has also just released the design for Haven-2, a larger, multi-module station

International Space

Administrator Nelson says that Elon Musk’s contacts with Putin are “concerning”

Dominican Republic signs Artemis Accords

 

 

Military Space

X-37B spaceplane to use aerobraking to change orbital parameters

France and Germany to join US-led Operation Olympic Defender alliance

US relaxes some space technology export controls

 

Companies/Money:

Airbus Defence and Space plans to make 2,500 space lay-offs

PLD has plans for bigger rockets and crewed spacecraft

mPower gets solar power modules contract from Airbus

Ororatech gets funding for its wildfire detection constellation

Anduril and Impulse Space to collaborate on AI-driven satellite mobility

Astra is still in the rocket launcher game as it receives US$44 million investment from the US military

HALO development contract awarded to Apex for bus design

Russia learns how to get around western space tech via substitution for Express AMU-4 comsat

Elon Musk to sue panel planning to limit SpaceX launches in California

 

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured images of the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS comet from the International Space Station. Courtesy: Matthew Dominick/NASA

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