Superlatives for the space class of 2022
Dec 22, 2022, 2:30 PM UTCIt was a good year for space. NASA finally got its long-anticipated Moon rocket off the ground, SpaceXin July, and JWST continued to bring us picture after picture of the wonders of the cosmos.
It took years to get this mission from concept to launch — far longer than expected. On its way to the launchpad, Artemis 1 had to deal with everything from scheduling issues to hydrogen leaks to hurricanes. Plural. There’s still a lot of work to be done before we have a fully functioning asteroid defense system. But not bad for first impact.SpaceX certainly had a benchmark year in 2022. The company beat its own annual record for most launches in a year, hitting 32 launches by July. At the time of writing this article, the company has completed 59 launches in the last 12 months.
There are concerns about this satellite in particular, however. As it unfolded, it became one of the brightest objects in the sky. Astronomers have been worried about the light-polluting effects of constellations of communications satellites disrupting scientific observations for some time now, and while bigger can be better, it comes with its own set of potential issues that will need to be managed.
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