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by?Jeff Foust?—?December 11, 2022
WASHINGTON — Fifty years to the day after the last Apollo moon mission touched down on the lunar surface, NASA’s plans to return to the moon took a major step forward with the successful splashdown of the Orion spacecraft to end the Artemis 1 mission.
The Orion spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Baja California at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Dec. 11, ending the 25.5-day Artemis 1 uncrewed test flight. The splashdown took place near recovery forces led by the USS Portland, which will haul the capsule onto the ship to transport back to the port of San Diego, California.
“This has been an extraordinarily successful mission,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at a briefing about three hours after splashdown. “It is the beginning of the new beginning, and that is to explore the heavens.”
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by?Shelli Brunswick?—?December 7, 2022
Some of the most important science in the field of astronomy has been possible because of Chile, from studying black holes to?tracking the debris trail left after NASA’s DART spacecraft?when it slammed into the asteroid Didymos.
By some estimates, Chile holds half or more of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, which owes largely to the favorable Atacama Desert skies in the country’s northern region.
But Chile’s future in space is not just relegated to looking up (through observatories often run by foreign space organizations). While its astronomy sector is mature, there is a fast-moving effort to strategically build other components of the country’s space ecosystem.
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by?Jeff Foust?—?December 13, 2022
WASHINGTON — Two African countries became the first from the continent to join the Artemis Accords as the United States works to bring more emerging space nations into the agreement.
During the Space Forum portion of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit here Dec. 13, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that Rwanda and Nigeria would sign the Accords, making them the latest nations to sign the document that outlines best practices for safe and sustainable space exploration based on the Outer Space Treaty and other agreements.
“I’m so proud of Rwanda and Nigeria that they will be the 22nd and 23rd signatories of the Artemis Accords and first two African nations to sign,” he said.
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by?Jeff Foust?—?December 13, 2022
WASHINGTON — The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling for a halt to one type of anti-satellite (ASAT) testing, a largely symbolic move intended to support broader space sustainability initiatives.
The resolution, introduced by the United States and several other nations, was approved by the U.N. General Assembly Dec. 7 among dozens of other resolutions on arms control and related topics with little discussion or debate. A total of 155 nations voted in favor of the resolution, with 9 voting against it and 9 others abstaining.
The resolution calls on countries to halt destructive testing of direct-ascent ASAT weapons, citing concern that such creates large amounts of debris that threaten the safety of other satellites. An example is the November 2021 ASAT test by Russia that destroyed the Cosmos 1408 satellite, creating nearly 1,800 tracked pieces of debris and likely many more objects too small to be tracked.?About a third of the tracked debris from that test was still in orbit?nearly a year later.
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