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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]
Sample return mission. 2030 (TBD) [15] Ariane 62: Kourou ELA-4: Arianespace: NEOMIR: ESA: Sun–Earth L 1: Near-Earth object detection Infrared astronomy Near-Earth Object Mission in the InfraRed (NEOMIR). 2030 (TBD) [17] Ariane 64: Kourou ELA-4: Arianespace: Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) ESA: Areocentric: Mars sample-return Orbiter component of ...
BlueBird Block 2 Mission 2. 2025 (TBD) [131] Falcon 9 Block 5: Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: BlueBird × 4 AST SpaceMobile: Low Earth: Communications BlueBird Block 2 Mission 3. 2025 (TBD) [132] New Glenn: Cape Canaveral LC-36: Blue Origin: BlueBird × 8 AST SpaceMobile: Low Earth: Communications BlueBird Block 2 Mission 4. 2025 (TBD) [133 ...
China's space exploration shows no signs of slowing in 2025. This spring, the country plans to launch a mission to collect samples of an asteroid — its first such expedition.
Mission name Launch date Description Ref(s) Venus Life Finder: January 2025 Private Venus atmospheric probe by Rocket Lab [1] AstroForge's Odin (Brokkr-2) January 2025 First commercial asteroid fly-by mission, rideshare of the IM-2 mission [2] Lunar Trailblazer: January 2025 Lunar orbiter, a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission [3] Nova-C IM-2 ...
It will use solar electric propulsion to explore the co-orbital near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The spacecraft will rendezvous with Kamoʻoalewa and conduct remote sensing observations in orbit, before landing on the asteroid to collect a sample of 100 g (3.5 oz) of regolith .
The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP; Chinese: 中国探月工程; pinyin: Zhōngguó Tànyuè Gōngchéng), also known as the Chang'e Project (Chinese: 嫦娥工程; pinyin: Cháng'é Gōngchéng) after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang'e, is an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The space program of the People's Republic of China is about the activities in outer space conducted and directed by the People's Republic of China.The roots of the Chinese space program trace back to the 1950s, when, with the help of the newly allied Soviet Union, China began development of its first ballistic missile and rocket programs in response to the perceived American (and, later ...