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However, on 8 January 2021, NASA announced that the probe was granted a second mission extension through September 2025, which could include future flybys of Europa and Io. [6] [7] Lastly the Tianwen-1 orbiter released another deployable camera in Mars orbit on 31 December 2021, to image itself and Northern Mars Ice Cap from Mars orbit.
In October 2021, the Lucy spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 on a mission to study eight different asteroids, including two main-belt asteroids and six Jupiter trojans. [28] [29] The spacecraft conducted its first Earth gravity assist on 16 October 2022. [30]
Lucy was launched from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 16 October 2021, at 09:34 UTC [3] on the 401 variant of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. It gained one gravity assist from Earth a year later on 16 October 2022, [12] and after making a flyby of the asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh in 2023, [13] it will gain another gravity assist from Earth in 2024. [14]
The launch came two weeks after NASA accomplished a return to Earth of the largest sample of material ever collected from an asteroid's surface - the rocky near-Earth asteroid Bennu. NASA in 2021 ...
Nasa is about to set off to a distant, metal asteroid that could tell us how planets form. On Friday, the spacecraft – currently folded in the cargo bay of a SpaceX rocket – will leave from ...
A Los Angeles resident captured timelapse footage of a SpaceX rocket launching a NASA spacecraft towards an asteroid on November 23.The footage, by Stephen Saux, shows light streaking across the ...
Launch of a Sejjil missile at a simulated target in the Indian Ocean (2 of 3). 16 January [262] Sejil-2: Re-entry vehicle Suborbital Missile test: 16 January: Successful Launch of a Sejjil missile at a simulated target in the Indian Ocean (3 of 3). 16 January [262] Emad: Re-entry vehicle Suborbital Missile test: 16 January: Successful
NASA is due to launch a separate mission on Thursday to a more distant asteroid called Psyche, a metal-rich body believed to be the remnant core of a protoplanet and the largest known metallic ...