During the week Lazy, hazy summer days? Not in the space business and certainly not THIS week. With Artemis I fast approaching, it’s busy, busy, busy at NASA and the rest of the space community hasn’t slowed down. This edition of What’s Happening covers two more days than usual, until Monday, August 29, because that’s the scheduled release date for Artemis I. There’s a lot going on this week leading up to it, and it seemed logical to keep them all together. The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I unmanned flight test waiting at Launch Complex-39B for liftoff, currently scheduled for August 29, 2022. The orange section is the base stage (Boeing). Two white Solid Rocket boosters are on the sides (Northrop Grumman). The white Intermediate Cryogenic Upper Stage (Boeing/United Launch Alliance) and the white Orion spacecraft (Lockheed Martin) with the Launch Abort System are at the top. Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky Keep in mind that the launch well could slip for any number of reasons. August 29 is the first of three launch opportunities in this window. Backup dates are September 2nd and 5th. After that they have to wait a few weeks before the next window opens. As of this morning (Sunday August 21), however, here is the plan. All NASA updates will be broadcast on NASA TV, NASA Live and the NASA app. The ESA briefing on Tuesday will be on ESA TV (ESA provides the Orion Service Unit).
Monday, August 22: NASA post-Launch Readiness Review (LRR) briefing, 7:00 p.m. ET Tuesday 23 August: ESA briefing on its role on Artemis, 5:00am. ET (11:00 CEST) Friday, August 26: NASA briefing on industry’s role in advancing human space exploration, 10:00 a.m. ET Saturday, August 27: NASA briefing after Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting, 11:00 a.m. ET Saturday, August 27: NASA briefing on Moon-to-Mars exploration plans, 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday, August 28: NASA briefing with countdown update, 9:00 a.m. ET Monday August 29: 12:00 am (midnight): refueling coverage begins 6:30 am ET: full launch coverage begins in English on NASA TV and continues through launch, interlunar injection and spacecraft separation 7:30 am ET: full launch coverage begins in Spanish on NASA’s Spanish-language social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) and continues 15 minutes after launch 8:33 – 10:33 am ET: two-hour launch window Post-launch event times may vary depending on when the launch occurs 12:00 p.m. ET: post-release update 4:00 p.m. ET: coverage of Orion’s first orbital burn 5:30 p.m. ET: coverage of the first views of Earth by Orion
If all goes well, NASA hopes to send four crew members around the Moon on Artemis II in 2024 and return humans to the lunar surface in late 2025, the first human landing on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. That’s a long way off, but NASA is already in the process of selecting sites to land two Artemis III astronauts, one of whom will be the first woman to walk on the Moon. On Friday, NASA revealed 13 regions, each with at least 10 individual landing sites, on the Moon’s South Pole that are candidate sites. This week (Tuesday-Thursday), NASA’s Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) will meet at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD to discuss these sites and other topics. According to the agenda, there is an Artemis Update session on Tuesday afternoon that includes an update on Starship from SpaceX’s Nick Cummings. Lots of other good sessions too. It’s a hybrid meeting, so there’s a virtual option for those who can’t be there in person. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will participate in a pre-launch briefing tomorrow (Monday). Artemis isn’t the only thing on NASA’s mind. It’s almost time for another crew exchange on the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will launch on Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 with two Russian cosmonauts on September 21. Rubio will hold a mock press conference ahead of the launch tomorrow morning (Monday). His flight is the first under the crew exchange agreement signed by the United States and Russia last month. Shortly after the launch of Soyuz MS-22, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will be the first Russian woman to launch on an American spacecraft – Crew Dragon – since the shuttle era as a member of Crew-5. Crew-5’s pre-launch updates should be coming soon. And that’s not all. On Thursday, NASA and Boeing will provide an update on Boeing’s Starliner commercial crew program, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon competitor. Boeing finally successfully completed the Starliner’s unmanned flight test, OFT-2, in May. Next comes the Crewed Flight Test (CFT). They had hoped to launch it before the end of this year, but NASA officials have hinted that it will likely be moved to early 2023. Hopefully, they will announce the date at Thursday’s briefing. Nicholas Maubert, CNES representative and Space Counselor of the French Embassy in Washington, will be the guest speaker at the Space Foundation’s ‘Start Here for Space’ on Tuesday. Lots and lots of other events this week, too. On Tuesday, the Space Foundation will hold the next in its Start Here for Space series highlighting international collaboration. Every Tuesday this month and in September, the Space Foundation is holding half-hour webinars with Washington space agency representatives to talk about what their agencies are doing and working with the United States. This week’s guest is Nicholas Maubert from the French space agency CNES. Previous episodes (archived on the Space Foundation website) were with Sylvie Espinasse from ESA, Masami Onoda from JAXA and Jill Smyth from CSA. Here comes Krunal Joshi from ISRO and Marc Johemich from DLR. They are really good introductions to what these countries are doing in space. To pick just two more of this week’s other great events, we’ll move into the national security space. On Wednesday, the Space Policy Institute and the Aerospace Corporation are teaming up to present a hybrid seminar on “After the KE-ASAT Moratorium: What’s Next?” Experts will discuss Vice President Kamala Harris’ announcement in April that the United States will not conduct anti-satellite direct ascent (ASAT) tests that generate debris as Russia did last November. The United States is inviting other countries to make the same pledge. Harris chairs the White House National Space Council and his executive secretary, Chirag Parikh, will kick things off, followed by two top committees on a “whole-of-government approach to space rules of conduct” and the “role of the private sector in interval rules of conduct”. The in-person meeting will take place at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a virtual option is available. Breaking Defense reporter Theresa Hitchens will moderate an INSA webinar on the Intelligence Community’s use of commercial GEOINT on Thursday. Then on Thursday, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) will have a webinar with the heads of commercial programs at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), Pete Muend and Dave Gauthier, discussing the implementation of the Intelligence Community’s commercial GEOINT strategy. Moderated by Breaking Defense’s Theresa Hitchens, this “fireside chat” should be quite enlightening on how the defense and intelligence communities are exploiting the commercial potential in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). These and other facts we know about as of Sunday morning are shown below. Check back throughout the week for more we learn later and add to our Calendar or changes to. We’ll also mention that China’s astronauts on Tiangong-3 are expected to spacewalk sometime soon, but as usual China hasn’t specified when. If we hear anything definitive, we’ll add it to the Calendar. Monday, August 22 Monday-Tuesday August 22-23 Tuesday, August 23 Tuesday-Thursday August 23-25 Wednesday, August 24
NOAA Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES), virtual, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. ET After the KE-ASAT Moratorium, what’s next? (Space Policy Institute/Aerospace Corp), George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington, DC/virtual, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. ET NASA Space Weather Council, public participation is virtual only, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ET State of the Space Industrial Base (Atlantic Council), virtual, 2:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Wednesday-Thursday August 24-25 Wednesday-Friday August 24-26 Thursday, August 25 Friday, August 26 Saturday, August 27 Sunday, August 28 Monday, August 29
Launch of Artemis I, KSC, 8:33 AM. ET 12:00 am (midnight): refueling coverage begins 6:30 am ET: full launch coverage begins in English on NASA TV and continues through launch, interlunar injection and spacecraft separation 7:30 am ET: full launch coverage begins in Spanish on NASA’s Spanish-language social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) and continues 15 minutes after launch 8:33 – 10:33 am ET: two-hour launch window Post-launch event times may vary depending on when the launch occurs 12:00 p.m. ET: post-release update 4:00 p.m. ET: coverage of Orion’s first orbital burn 5:30 p.m. ET: coverage of the first views of Earth by Orion
Last Updated: August 21, 2022 10:12 am ET
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