The first of my Deep Space Updates for 2023 – The final launches of 2022, where China proved that it can just about keep up with SpaceX if you count the entire nation’s rocket fleet and ignore metrics such as ‘total mass to orbit’. There were a few other news stories, but the holiday season has slowed the usual reports of big events and I decided to talk about what we can expect in 2023…. but my camera battery was running out 🙂