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On 15 January, Blue Ghost Mission 1 by Firefly Aerospace and Hakuto-R Mission 2 by ispace launched together on a Falcon 9. Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander will carry NASA-sponsored experiments and commercial payloads as a part of Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to Mare Crisium. [2] Landing is expected on 2 March 2025. [3]
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. It was launched on October 14, 2024. [ 15 ] The spacecraft used a gravity assist from Mars on March 1, 2025, [ 10 ] and then it will later use another gravity assist from Earth on December 3, 2026 ...
In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, researchers at George Mason University are heading a project to construct and eventually launch a small satellite into space. Once in orbit, the contraption ...
Vast, a space company based in Long Beach, California, announced in 2023 plans to launch its space station, called Haven-1. The mission will be quickly followed by Vast-1, the first human ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to find a new docking port for a SpaceX Dragon in order to make way for an uncrewed NASA vehicle on a resupply mission.. The Dragon ...
Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, [1] to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.34 light-years away. It was founded in 2016 by Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark ...
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [4] [5] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [6]
NASA recently spotted the vibrant colors that make up the "cosmic wreath," a swarm of stars and dust on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way ...