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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
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) aka "The Green Comet" is making its closest approach to the Earth today. The moon is bright tonight, making it difficult to find the comet with the naked eye.
Mission: lunar orbiter serving as communications satellite for Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7 Chang'e 8 and International Lunar Research Station on lunar far-side mission; Launched: 20 March 2024; Destination: Moon (in lunar orbit) Arrival: 2024 (planned) Institution: CNSA; Tiandu-1. Mission: Testing technologies for a future lunar Satellite constellation.
Comet C/2023 A3 Tschinshan-ATLAS will be at its closest point to Earth, 44 million miles, on Saturday, and should be visible to the naked eye in the western sky just after sunset.
Comet C/2023 A3 will be visible in the sky over the next few days for more than an hour shortly after sunset each night. For those in New Jersey, the sun sets around 6:25 p.m., so the best viewing ...
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
Missions to Halley's Comet (7 P) R. Rosetta mission (15 P) Pages in category "Missions to comets" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
🪨 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 ...