SKTLs Newsletter #22 includes information about SpaceX’s launch today (4/1/2022), Blue Origin flight NS-20, JWST’s latest alignment, NASA’s new flight contracts, the planned coverage of the Ax-1 crewed mission to the ISS, what happened on this day in space in 1960, two space startups doing big things and fun facts about the Spiderweb Galaxy protocluster.

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He has little legs!”
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Space News

SpaceX’s Latest Launch
A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today carrying payloads for a variety of customers.

Blue Origin’s First Suborbital Flight Of 2022
Blue Origin launches its fourth crewed mission of New Shepard.

James Webb Space Telescope Update
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully aligned all but one of the instruments.

NASA Orders Additional Flights
NASA is adding to its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contracts with two of its rocket manufacturers.

First Audio Recorded On Mars 
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been recording sound on the red planet and the scientific findings are echoing around the world.

Axiom Mission 1 Briefings, Events, Broadcast
Planned coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

On This Day In Space! April 1, 1960
On this day in 1960, NASA launches TIROS-1.

SPACE STARTUP AND PRIVATE COMPANY NEWS

SPACE SIMULATION AND ANALYTICS
Slingshot wins multi million dollar contract. Slingshot Aerospace lands its first STRATFI and SpaceWERX contracts.

SPACE EXPERIMENTATION
Israeli startup’s sci-fi ‘headset’. The Brain.Space headset will be a scientific space newbie on the Axiom Ax-1 mission.

Fun facts about space… In a “Spiderweb” protocluster, objects that lie within a giant cosmic web are feasting and growing. The Spiderweb galaxy, officially known as J1140-2629 and about 10.6 billion light years from Earth, contains supermassive black holes containing hundreds of millions of times more mass than the Sun.

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