Monthly Space News 2022/12: Artemis 1 orbit & Oberth effect; Moon/Mars 3D printing; NEO surveyor,…



This month’s Space News covers the Artemis 1 moon mission, its Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO), and its use of the Oberth effect and gravity assist (“slingshot”); delay in a separate lunar launch; newly-funded research on Moon/Mars construction using 3D printing by autonomous robots; progress on the Mars Dune Alpha/CHAPEA Mars base analog with its 3D printing; NEO Surveyor (space telescope to detect killer asteroids) is now a full project, the Chinese space station crew overlap with 6 onboard at once; and the 14 recent launches to space.

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