Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

Another item found on the Fediverse, decentralized social media. This is a new ESA mission to the asteroid Apophis.

Links

• European Space agancy
  • Mission page

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#ESA,#Space,#Mission,#Apophis,#Asteroid

“Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission made history on Feb. 22, with the first successful Moon landing*

This will be the first of several missions before the next Atemis mission to fly a crewed mission around the moon, before the Artemis III mission to land humans on the moon in a few years.

Exciting times ahead. You can read more about the IM-1 mission here

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#Space,#Moon,#Lander,#Mission,#IntuitiveMachines,#NASA

This week saw Japan become only the 5th country to land on the moon. This has been achieved using their SLIM mission, Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM).

At the time of writing this, the mission status is that they landed on the moon, but there are issues with the solar panels preventing power to the lander. However, landing on the moon is very difficult. So this success proved the technology worked.

More information will be available in due course, in the meantime there is a link to the mission website below.

Links

• SLIM Mission
  • Latest Information

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#Science,#Moon,#Japan,#SLIM,#Mission

Nasa’s Parker mission poised for solar ‘landing’ in 2024

This mission was launched in 2018. As this part of the mission draws to a close, a Fediverse post reminded me about it. This link to france24.com has some more information.

Lots of exciting things happening in 2024. this will be the first of many.

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#Solar,#Mission.#Parker

Image embedded from website below

The next generation of X-ray probe will launch in January 2024. This mission will help us discover more x-ray sources and much more.

• ESA X-ray Lobster-eye
• European Space Agency

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#ESA,#Space,#Science,#Mission,#Einstein,#X-ray,#Probe

NASAs JSL next mission is to an interesting and perhaps unique Asteroid. Due to launch on October 12. The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Launch now scheduled for the 13th October

• Psyche Mission

#NASA,#JPL,#Mission,#Psyche,#Asteroid,#Geology,

There doesn't seem to have been much in the news about this, but India's mission to the moon is past another critical stage.

This is really important for the country but hopefully also for humanity as with any luck we will actually start to collaborate on exploration.

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#India,#Moon,#Mission

With the 2024 Artemis 2 mission fast approaching, the mission teams are hard at work training for this important mission to fly humans around the moon and return safely to Earth. Read more here

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#NASA,#Moon,#Mission,#Atemis,#Artemis2,#2024

The EU Euclid mission to study nature of dark energy and dark matter. is due to launch this weekend.

Euclid is an ESA mission to map the geometry of the Universe and better understand the mysterious dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the energy budget of the cosmos. The mission will investigate the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution of cosmic structures by measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies and clusters of galaxies out to redshifts ~2, or equivalently to a look-back time of 10 billion years. In this way, Euclid will cover the entire period over which dark energy played a significant role in accelerating the expansion of the Universe. [1]

There is also a comprehensive launch kit available [2] in English and other languages from.

References

1. Euclid mission
2. Launch Kit
3. Science Forums

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#DarkEnergy,#DarkMatter,#EU,ESA,#Mission,Euclid

Due to the weather, yesterdays JUICE launch was scrubbed, they will attempt another launch today.

The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Friday April 14th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.

• Watch live on Youtube

Links

• Space.com article
  • European Space Agency
  • JUICE Mission
  • NASA
    • NASA Astrobiology

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#NASA,#ESA.#JupiterMoons,#JUICE,#Astrobiology,#Mission,#Launch