Milky-Way.Kiwi Space News

• 2022 Is When SpinLaunch Aims To Begin Commercial Launch Operations
  In May this year the potentially disruptive company, SpinLaunch broke ground on its new facility in New Mexico at Spaceport America. They aim to compete in the launch market by getting satellites into Low Earth […]
• Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
  The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was set up in 1959 to govern the exploration and the use of space for the benefit of all humanity.
• Highlights from the last few days about space and what’s coming up
  Beresheet spacecraft entered lunar orbit and further speculation of the future of the SLS and commercial involvement in the Moon programme. The announcement that the Event Horizon Telescope may give us the first ever picture of the event horizon around the Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy
• NASA’s Exploration Mission 1 (EM1) and Who Might Launch it.
  The Vice President of the US announced that the administration wants the US to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024. For this to happen there needs to be a way of getting them there and the SLS will probably not be ready.
• What’s Happening in Space (and on Earth)
  There's a Rocket Lab Electron due to lift off on Wednesday, Beresheet is going to land on the Moon on the 11 April and SpaceX's Starhopper might make it's first tentative lift off with its one Raptor engine.
• The 21 March 2019 Supermoon, or the more common name, Perigee Syzygy of the Sun, Earth and Moon system.
  Tonight is the last Supermoon for 2019 so if you get a chance, go outside and have a look. But if you miss it, don't worry, it'll be back next year.