Hello, readers, and welcome back to the last This Week in Space of 2022. As the year draws down to a close, American aerospace — both public and private — has gone as quiet as a winter’s night. So, we’re consoling ourselves with a triple scoop of news from Mars. […]
Space
Janet Barth spent most of her career at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md.—which put her in the middle of some of NASA’s most exciting projects of the past 40 years. She joined the center as a co-op student and retired in 2014 as chief of its electrical […]
Comment on this story Remark TOKYO — When China efficiently towed a useless satellite into a “graveyard orbit” this year, it alarmed professionals in Japan who have been trying to place their country at the forefront of the world’s expanding market place in area-junk removing. Some interpreted the Chinese feat […]
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to This Week in Space. We’ve got the best of this week’s space news, as usual. But first, we’d like to start with a note in celebration of Veterans’ Day. It takes great courage to put yourself on the line for your country and your […]