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Discovery 8 – Deep Impact (primary); EPOXI (extended), launched January 2005, completed. Discovery 9 – Dawn, launched September 2007, completed – Vesta in 2011-2012, and Ceres in 2015-2018. Discovery 13 – Lucy, launched October 2021, operational – Will fly by one main-belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
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 ...
Chinese Mars sample-return mission. Delivery of the Mengzhou next-generation crewed spacecraft for China's first crewed lunar landing. Delivery of the Lanyue crewed lunar lander for China's first crewed lunar landing. Maiden flight of Taiwan 's first orbital launch vehicle, Siraya (西拉雅).
List of Artemis missions. The Artemis program is a human spaceflight program by the United States. The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972; mid-term objectives include establishing an international expedition team, and a sustainable human presence on the Moon.
Vigoride-6 carries ARCA Dynamics' SMPOD03 cubesat deployer and Momentus Space's Tappe Spring Solar Array as hosted payloads. The ELaNa 40 mission, consisting of the CIRBE cubesat, and the ELaNa 47 mission, consisting of the two LLITED cubesats, were launched on this flight. [106] 16 April 01:36:29 [139] Long March 4B: 4B-Y51 Jiuquan SLS-2: CASC ...
Return to flight of Ceres-1 after a failed launch attempt on 21 September 2023. Last launch of Zhuque-2, Future launches will happen on upgraded Zhuque-2E. 500th launch of Long March series rockets. Third flight of the reusable experimental spacecraft. Previously manifested as a LauncherOne payload.
In June 2023, Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development, said that launch would "probably" be no earlier than 2026. [29] [30] Later in December 2023, the GAO reported the mission was unlikely to occur before 2027. [8] In January 2024, NASA officially delayed Artemis III to no earlier than September 2026. [4]
e. The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1. It is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The program's stated long-term goal is ...