This Week in Spaceflight: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Flies Again and the First Arab Spacewalk

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This Week in Spaceflight: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Flies Again and the First Arab Spacewalk
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History could be made this week, as Japan's ispace seeks to become the first private mission to land successfully on the Moon.

Earth-observing cubesat. This will be the second Falcon Heavy mission of 2023 and the sixth overall. Falcon Heavies are essentially three Falcon 9s strapped together, with the two side boosters typically attempting vertical landings after each launch. For this mission, however, the two side boosters will not be recovered, as Falcon Heavy’s payload is heavier than usual.The coming week will feature two spacewalks, one on Tuesday and the other on Friday.

For the first spacewalk, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin will use Europe’s new robotic arm and Canadarm2 to transfer an airlock to the Nauka module.The Friday spacewalk will feature United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, who will become the first Arab to participate in a spacewalk.

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