Weekly space news - 20/Nov/2022

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India’s first non-ISRO rocket launched

Skyroot Aerospace launched India’s first non-ISRO rocket this week on Saturday 18/Nov/2022. The rocket was 6m in length, successfully splashed down in the Bay of Bengal after 5 minutes of flight time and reached an altitude of 90km.

Artemis 1 finally launched

After 4 delays NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket was finally launched last Wednesday.

Uganda launches its first satellite

Uganda successfully launched its first sattelite (PearlAfricaSat-1) to the International space Station this week. It will soon be deployed into low earth orbit.

South Africa to help NASA track moon mission

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is building a deep space ground station to help track NASA’s Artemis missions to the moon. The ground station will go online by 2025.

A new experiment aboard the ISS might be able to find a cure for age-related muscle loss

The University of Florida researchers will send an experiment to the ISS on 21/Nov/2022 which could find a cure for age-related muscle loss. The zero-gravity-like conditions of ISS could help researchers study the effect of microgravity on muscle loss. The micro-gravity environment will quicken the muscle changes which is why the researchers are doing this experiment in space.