2022

- Record number of launches and satellites
- JWST first images
- DART impact on Dimorphos
- Chinese space station initial assembly complete
- Axiom-1 tourist visit to space station
- Several new small launch vehicles
- SLS/Artemis finally gets of the pad 
- Robotic lunar missions ramping up ( CAPSTONE, S Korea's Danuri, Hakuto-R, Lunar Flashlight, SLS cubesats)
- Continued deployment of Starlink constellation for good and bad
- First methalox rocket to reach space (but failed to reach orbit; Zhuque-2, early Dec)

BUT delays
- Russian invasion of Ukraine disrupted world space industry
   - Euclid had to find new launcher
   - OneWeb (UK rival to Starlink) had to find new launcher
   - Challenge for US rockets which use Russian rocket engines, limited supply now running out
   - Challenge for Antares (Northrop Grumman) which uses Ukraine-built stage
- No Starship launch
- No crewed flight of Boeing Starliner
- No Blue Origin orbital (New Glenn) launch
- No Vulcan launch (replacement for ULA Atlas 5)
- Delays for suborbital tourism (Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin)
- SLS next flight is years away