The heads of the world's major space agencies presented their big plans for the coming years at a major congress in Paris.
At the International Astronautical Congress in Paris, officials from NASA, the European Space Agency, CSA, JAXA, and ISRO spoke.
The first major milestone is moving quickly. "This weekend, at 15,000 miles an hour, a spacecraft is going to ram a small asteroid that revolves around a larger asteroid," Bill Nelson said. We're going to see if we can move that trajectory so that we can find the killer asteroids by the time we get to Earth.
The DART asteroid mission is NASA's first planetary defense vehicle.
The heads of agencies were absent from the event. The vice administrator of the China National Space Administration dropped out of the panel because of a scheduling conflict. The country's plans for the moon are expected to be updated later during the congress.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia is not present at IAC. According to the Russian news agency, its delegates were given visas. Nelson stated that the United States and Russia are still cooperating in space despite the condemnation of the invasion. They are partners in the space station program.
Nelson said that despite the political troubles on terra firma you still see that professional relationship working in the civilian space arena.
The current economic and political situation makes it difficult for the European Space Agency to get the funding it needs for the upcoming ministerial meeting.
The first Ariane 6 launch is expected next year, as well as the launch of the Jupiter ICy moons Explorer in the second quarter of 2020.
The European Space Agency is looking to pick a few from 23,000 applicants to be its next astronauts.
Canada suffers 7,500 wildfires each year, burning over 2.5 million hectares of forests. The WildFireSat mission is being developed to increase our ability to monitor fires.
Satellites are watching the devastating fires of 2021.
She said that space technology can generate infinite solutions to many of the challenges we face because it combines a broad range of artificial intelligence.
Campbell highlighted that the country is working on Canadarm3 as part of the lunar gateway project and will send an astronauts on the Artemis 2 crewed lunar flyby mission in the coming months The winning proposal for a lunar south pole rover will be announced in the coming weeks, she said.
The MMX sample return mission to Mars is one of many exploration projects that Japan is working on. JAXA and its industry partners are close to getting the new H3 rocket ready for its test flight, which is expected to take place before the end of the Japanese fiscal year.
The development of the Gaganyaan crew capsule and its escape system is proving more difficult than expected, according to the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
According to S. Somanth, India is seeing a great increase in space startups, including several companies that are building small satellites India.
The annual congress of space agencies, astronauts, scientists, researchers, industry and press takes place in Paris every year.
The International Astronautical Federation president said that this year's edition has attracted a record 8,700 people from 130 countries.
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