Space News from Planet Earth #02 – 20 June 2022

A bi-monthly newscast edited by Cole Armagost

Our selection of news relevant for Civilian Space Development

  1. China’s moon sample-return mission finds water evidence twice over, by Andrew Jones space.com – June 14 2022
  2. SpaceX’s Starship will be ready for 1st orbital flight in July, Elon Musk says, by Mike Wall space.com – June 14 2022
  3. First tower segment for SpaceX’s Starship launch site moves to pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, by Stephen Clark spaceflightnow.com — June 16, 2022
  4. Sierra Space to start astronaut training program, by Jeff Foust spacenews.com — June 14, 2022
  5. D-Orbit charts ambitious course for space logistics business, by Debra Werner spacenews.com — June 15, 2022
  6. SLS test launch— June 20, 2022

Space Renaissance & Partners, Events and Activities

  1. The Space Renaissance Art & Science Festival will be held in Berlin, from 7 to 9 of July 2022. The 3 days conference will host several artists and experts of space matters and programs from Europe, US and other Countries. And, of course, a large representation of the German space community.
  2. The Space Renaissance Academy has kicked-off the SRI Ambassadors High Level Training Course. The Calendar of the lectures in 2022 is now published on the SR Academy website https://academy.spacerenaissance.space , where it is also possible to register to attend the lectures. Registration is free for SRI members, while we ask for a free donation by non members. The first lecture, to be given June 26th, is “Utopian thinkers and Space Philosophy”.
  3. SRI has kicked-off its internship programme. Already 3 conventions were signed with universities, to allow our interns to get credits by this activity. They are already helping in the frame of the SR Academy, to build our lectures, and to search world wide literature for adding references to our works (papers, presentations, projects). The Statement of Work for the available internship roles is published on the SRI website spacerenaissance.space, where it is also possible to apply for the open positions.
  4. SRI and ACES World Wide are working to organize a special workshop at UN session of September 2022, on the theme of space safety and space science & exploration sustainability. More info to come.

Read the whole newscast here (pdf format).

Adriano Autino

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