The Space Show

2022.07.27 | Lunar-VISE, VIPER, JUICE, Draper SERIES-2 and a potpourri of other space items

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 July 2022: 

Space Show News:

  • Lunar-VISE (Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer): NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon.
  • VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) lunar rover: On 21 September 2021, NASA announced the landing site for its VIPER mission to the Moon’s south pole. On 19 July 2022, NASA reschedules CLPS delivery of VIPER to 2024 to reduce risk to the mission.
  • NASA has awarded Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts a contract to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Schrödinger Basin on the far side of the Moon in 2025: The commercial delivery is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative under Artemis.
  • The Australian Defence Force has started planning for two experimental Australian satellite missions: Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist,  Professor Tanya Monro, has announced that Airbus has been selected as the strategic partner for Defence’s Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot – a strategic research program established to develop future space capabilities for the Australian Defence Force (ADF).


    • Space Industry Association of Australia conference Q&A panel session moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy on Australian space industry workforce planning.

    Prof. Iver Cairns from CUAVA (the ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs, and their Applications at the University of Sydney) in conversation with the Space Association of Australia on the future of CUAVA and the multiple uses for cubesats.

    From the Vault: 1986 NASA feature on the “Orient Express”, the National Aero-Space Plane, designated the X-30.

    The magnetic objectives of the delayed Psyche mission.

    JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission overview and implications of the launch delay: a feature courtesy of the European Space Agency.


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    The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia