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China sent Chang'e 6 on 3 May 2024, which conducted the first lunar sample return from Apollo Basin on the far side of the Moon. [38] This is China's second lunar sample return mission, the first was achieved by Chang'e 5 from the lunar near side four years earlier. [39]
Solar System space probes operational as of November 2024. This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit.It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points (for these, see List of objects at Lagrangian points).
Mission name Launch date Description Ref(s) Nova-C IM-2: February 2025 Lunar lander [1] Odin (Brokkr-2) February 2025 First commercial asteroid fly-by mission by AstroForge, rideshare of the IM-2 mission. The target is 2022 OB5. [2] [3] Lunar Trailblazer: February 2025 Lunar orbiter, a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission [4] EscaPADE: Spring 2025
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...
October 13, 2024 at 10:34 AM. By Will Dunham. ... Europa Clipper is the biggest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission, measuring about 100 feet (30.5 meters) long, about 58 feet ...
Second of three Cygnus spacecraft to be launched via Falcon 9. The ELaNa-52 mission, consisting of the CySat 1 and DORA cubesats, was launched on this flight. Emma, SaganSat 0, Sakura, Wisseed Sat, Binar-2, -3, -4 were deployed into orbit from the ISS on 29 August 2024. [42] CySat-1 and DORA were deployed into orbit from the ISS on 8 October ...
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.
The mission's name is a reference to the lightweight and fast clipper ships of the 19th century that routinely plied trade routes, since the spacecraft will pass by Europa at a rapid cadence, as frequently as every two weeks. The mission patch, which features a depiction of a sail ship, references the moniker. [22]