A Year In Space.

Space travel is increasingly routine: humanity made a record 178 successful takeoffs into orbit in 2022. Other innovations turned their gaze back on our planet, like NASA's TEMPO, which monitors air quality in the U.S.; Nuview's LiDAR Satellite Constellation, planned to map Earth in 3D; and Pixxel's work to detect environmental threats with its Hyperspectral Imaging Satellites. That includes efforts to better understand space, like NASA's OSIRIS-REx, which gathered samples from an asteroid, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2, built to explore the moon. [Extracted from the article]

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