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Mission Spacecraft Launch date Carrier rocket Operator Mission Type Outcome 1 Argo: Argo: c. 2020s N/A: NASA: Flyby Cancelled Cancelled due to shortage of plutonium-238 required for the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG). [37] Proposed to have used a Jupiter gravity assist to propel it toward Saturn. 2 BRUIE: Buoyant Rover for Under ...
Flyby provisionally scheduled at time of spacecraft's failure Rosetta: 2 March 2004: ESA: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Orbiter Successful Entered orbit around 67P at 09:06 UTC on 6 August 2014. On 30 September 2016 mission ended in an attempt to slow land on the comet's surface near a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit called Deir el-Medina. Ariane 5G+ Philae
Lunar orbiter, a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission [3] Nova-C IM-2: February 2025 Lunar lander [4] EscaPADE: Spring 2025 Two Mars orbiters [5] Tianwen-2: May 2025 Asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa sample return, comet 311P/PanSTARRS orbiter [6] Artemis II: April 2026 4-person lunar flyby [7] [8] Martian Moons eXploration: 2026 Martian moon ...
🪨 Asteroids 🪨. NASA keeps a handy list of the five closest asteroids predicted to fly by Earth, including 2022 YH3, a whopping 290-foot rocky mass that whipped by our planet on January 14 ...
The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and a rendezvous with an asteroid. To the moon, an asteroid and beyond: The ...
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is set to take off today (14 April) after it was delayed yesterday (13 April) due to lightning warnings. Led by the European Space Agency, the mission will ...
The craft are further grouped by mission status – "en-route", "mission in progress" or "mission complete" – based on their primary mission. For example, though Voyager 1 is still contactable en-route to the Oort Cloud and has exited the Solar System , it is listed as "mission complete" because its primary task of studying Jupiter and Saturn ...
The best time to see the comet will be as it makes its closest approach to Earth around Oct. 12. Oct. 13-14 : Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will lose some of its brightness but will move farther from ...