Webb Telescope fully focused for the job ahead 29 April 2022 Alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments.
	Space blocs: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth 28 April 2022 There’s a new trend of groups of countries working together in space, from regional space agencies to the Artemis Accords. Svetla Ben-Itzhak examines what it means for prospects of conflict in space.
	NASA Chief expects cooperation with Russia on ISS to continue 28 April 2022 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that he has full confidence Russia will extend its cooperation with the United States on the International Space Station (ISS) based on the continuing close cooperation and warm personal relations between crews from both countries and their control teams back on Earth.
	SpaceX’s Freedom Dragon capsule arrives at space station with Crew-4 astronauts 28 April 2022 For the second time in less than three weeks, SpaceX delivered an astronaut crew to the International Space Station.
	Inmarsat CEO issues warning over space sustainability with ’unmanaged expansion’ 28 April 2022 Rajeev Suri, Chief Executive Officer of Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, issued a stark warning Wednesday that unmanaged space sector expansion could exacerbate environmental damage, stifle innovation and undermine the long-term capability of satellites to help combat climate change.
	China opens Shenzhou-13 return capsule 27 April 2022 China opened the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship which carried three astronauts back to Earth on April 16, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
	Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to Earth 26 April 2022 The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departed the orbiting laboratory to head back to Earth. The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Space.
	China looking at sending robotic probe to far side of moon 26 April 2022 Chinese scientists and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust and rocks from the far side of the moon - an ambitious endeavour that will likely make it a world’s first, said a senior space agency official.
	A small ban of ASATs, a giant leap for space security? 26 April 2022 Vice President Harris announced last week that the United States would no longer perform tests of destructive direct-ascent ASAT weapons. Jeff Foust reports that while the ban has limited practical effects, it could be a step forward for multilateral efforts to develop norms of behavior in space.
	Experts issue call to regulate space debris as levels of junk mount 25 April 2022 Proliferating levels of debris are posing a threat to the space environment and should be regulated as more satellites are being launched into space, researchers say. Edinburgh University researchers said in a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy the debris is troublesome.
	How solar storms can destroy satellites with ease 23 April 2022 In February, most of a batch of newly launched Starlink satellites reentered after a solar storm. Piyush Mehta explains how an increasingly active Sun poses a range of threats to the ever-growing population of satellites in orbit.
	Make Uranus mission your priority, NASA told 22 April 2022 The US space agency NASA should prioritise a mission to Uranus, an influential panel of scientists says. The "ice giant" is the seventh planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun 19 times further out than Earth. It’s only ever been visited once before, in a brief flyby by the Voyager-2 probe in 1986. Researchers think an in-depth study of Uranus can help them better understand the many similarly sized objects now being discovered around other stars. The recommendation is made in a document published by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).

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