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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]
Event 2026 August 12 Total solar eclipse near lunar perigee 2027 February 6 Annular solar eclipse: 2027 August 2 Total solar eclipse: 2027 August 7 Asteroid (137108) 1999 AN 10 will pass within 388,960 km (0.0026 AU) of Earth. 2028 January 12 Partial lunar eclipse: 2028 January 26 Small annular solar eclipse: 2028 July 22
2024 XA 1, formerly designated as C0WEPC5, is a small meteoroid that fell over eastern Siberia near the city of Olekminsk on 3 December 2024, 16:15 GMT, around 1,000 kilometers east of the Tunguska event impact location. [4] [5] It is the eleventh impact event ever that was successfully predicted, and the fourth in 2024.
From planetary meet-ups to the first total lunar eclipse in three years, here are the top astronomy events to look for throughout 2025: Stellar views of Mars will greet stargazers in January as ...
Asteroid Perigee Date in 2024 2009 JV 1: 0.0571 AU (19.21 LD) January 5 2021 BL 3: 0.0441 AU (17.16 LD) January 23 [1]: 2017 BG 92: 0.0301 AU (11.71 LD) January 25 2011 CQ 1: 0.0289 AU (11.26 LD)
Space Norway / United States Space Force / Inmarsat / ViaSat: Highly elliptical Communications: In orbit: Operational ASBM-2 (GX-10B / EPS-R 2) Space Norway / United States Space Force / Inmarsat / ViaSat: Highly elliptical Communications: In orbit: Operational 12 August 10:37 [57] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 10-7 Kennedy LC-39A: SpaceX ...
Near-Earth object detection Infrared astronomy Near-Earth Object Mission in the InfraRed (NEOMIR). 2030 (TBD) [17] Ariane 64: Kourou ELA-4: Arianespace: Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) ESA: Areocentric: Mars sample-return Orbiter component of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return. It will collect the sample return canister delivered into orbit by the Mars ...
Astronomical events are celestial body events such as eclipses, novae or planetary collisions studied by the scientific discipline of astronomy, whereas "astronomy events" refers to social events such as academic meetings, conferences and other such newsworthy occasions relating to astronomy.