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Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]
C/2024 L5 (ATLAS) is a comet that was discovered on 14 June 2024 as A117uUD by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), South Africa, Sutherland. It will reach perihelion on 10 March 2025 at 3.432 AU (513.4 million km ) from the Sun. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Landing is expected on 2 March 2025. [3] The Hakuto-R Mission 2 will carry the RESILIENCE lunar lander and the TENACIOUS micro rover. [4] Landing is expected in Mare Frigoris around May-June 2025. [5] Blue Origin plans to launch their MK1 Lunar Lander as a "pathfinder" mission in 2025. [6]
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun. It is potentially the brightest comet of 2025, [ 6 ] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [ 5 ]
Cassini became the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it operated from 2004 to 2017. The spacecraft's journey to Saturn included flybys of Venus in April 1998 and June 1999, Earth in August 1999, the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter in December 2000. Cassini entered Saturn's orbit on 1 July 2004.
Heaviest payload launched by an Atlas until the launch of MUOS-1 in 2012. Largest comsat in the world at time of launch until the launch of TerreStar-1 in 2009 by Ariane 5 and then Telstar 19V on 21 July 2018 by Falcon 9. 15 4 April 2009 00:31 421 AV-016 Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 USA-204 (WGS-2) Military comsat GTO Success [82] 16 18 June 2009 21: ...
A number of car models won't ring in the new year.. The Ford Edge, Toyota Venza and Mini Clubman are just some of the vehicles that won't make it past model year 2024 in U.S. markets.
The second stage is powered by one Lightning 1 LOX / RP-1 engine, delivering 70.1 kN (15,800 lb f) of thrust with a specific impulse (I sp) of 322 seconds. [2] Lightning 1 was test-run for nearly 5 minutes on 15 March 2018 during a long duration test fire on Firefly's Test Stand 1 in Briggs, Texas .