Known asteroids, moon, space tourism, more space news in 2023. It is estimated that in the year 2023, there will be a lot of press on the moon, asteroids, and new rockets around the world.
Elon Musk’s rocket was in space once again on its second test flight, but it burst into flames again at the end of the flight. In its moon landing effort, India was able to achieve a higher success rate than Russia, which crashed. The first asteroid sample was also returned by NASA in addition to the first asteroid sample.
As 2023 comes to a close, here are a few cosmic highs and lows we can look forward to. This number is expected to rise even further in 2024.
Moonmania is sweeping the nation
Russian, Indian, and a private Japanese company all have plans to land in the area in 2023, and the news was all over the place. The only nation to achieve this was India, becoming the fourth nation to ever do so, making history as the first to do so. The Chinese and Japanese Space Agencies, as well as two American corporations, hope to land the spacecraft in January with the help of the Chinese space agency.
A new rocket has been launched
Two unsuccessful launches from South Texas in 2023 caused the Starship rocket, SpaceX’s largest and most powerful rocket ever built, to explode and tear apart in the Gulf of Mexico. There was a span of ninety three miles (150 kilometers) between the first and second test flight, which was twice as long. As part of the spacecraft’s preparation before it is loaded with satellites and crew, SpaceX plans to complete a circumnavigation of the earth before adding satellites and crew.
Asteroid autumn
According to NASA, it has been dubbed “asteroid autumn” because of its appearance. During the month of September, Osiris-Rex delivered a considerable amount of debris that had been collected by the asteroid Bennu. Psyche’s mission to find the eponymous metal-rich asteroid was launched almost three weeks after the launch of the Psyche spacecraft.
Tourism in space
In 2023, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company began offering passengers brief flights into space as part of a space tourism program. Five customers from New Mexico have been launched by the company in less than five months. It is anticipated that just a small number of passengers are expected to be carried on more frequent flights before the business folds by mid-2024 in order to build a rocketship that can carry more passengers.
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