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NASA continued the mission of the Juno spacecraft at Jupiter by conducting a flyby of Europa on 29 September 2022. [ 1] In Mars exploration, the European Space Agency (ESA) had partnered with Roscosmos to launch the Rosalind Franklin rover using the Kazachok lander as part of ExoMars 2022. [ 2] In March 2022, the launch was cancelled in the ...
Called 2024 MK, the space rock will make its closest approach to Earth Saturday morning, passing by at about three-quarters the distance from Earth to the moon. A 7,579-foot (2,310-meter) asteroid ...
Space tourism. In the United States, Virgin Galactic conducted the first suborbital human spaceflight from New Mexico on 22 May 2021 with SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity. [ 14] Two astronauts were on board, Frederick Sturckow and David Mackay. The flight was also the first suborbital human spaceflight from Spaceport America.
The year 2023 saw rapid growth and significant technical achievements in spaceflight. For the third year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts (223) and successful orbital launches (211). The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches ...
The Perseid meteor shower peaked in the night skies of Sunday into Monday, giving astronomy fans one of the best shows of 2024 as they looked to the skies. Perseid meteor shower put on quite a ...
List of ISRO missions. This is a list of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) missions. ISRO has carried out 125 spacecraft missions, 92 launch missions[ 1] and planned several missions including [ 2] the Gaganyaan (crewed/robotic) and Interplanetary mission such as Lunar Polar Exploration Mission, Chandrayaan-4, Shukrayaan and Mangalyaan ...
The distance between Mars and the Earth will arrive at a new remarkable minimum, at 55,651,033.122 km. It will be a closer encounter of perihelitic opposition, slightly shorter (of 549 km) than the previous one of September 3, 2650. [74] 2732 October 24 At 07:38 UTC, Venus will occult Uranus. [42] 2733 June 15 Transit of Venus: 2741 June 13
Very Large Array. / 34.0787492°N 107.6177275°W / 34.0787492; -107.6177275. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array ( VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory in the southwestern United States. It lies in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, approximately 50 miles (80 ...