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Astrophysics

The shuttle Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope at 08:57 EDT on 19 May 2009 after a successful servicing mission. More....

ESA's Planck and Herschel observatories were successfully launch from Kourou, French Guiana, at 13:12 UTC on Thursday 14 May 2009. They were released separately about 26 minutes after launch on a trajectory toward the Earth's L2 point. More....

NASA's GLAST satellite launched into orbit on 05 June 2008. More....

Heliophysics

NASA's IBEX mission, an Earth-orbiting mission designed to make observations of the solar wind's termination shock using energetic neutral atoms, was launched from a Pegasus XL rocket at 13:48 EDT on 19 October 2008. More...

Lunar and Planetary Science

Water on the Moon was detected in data sent back by the LCROSS spacecraft, it was announced at a NASA press conference on Friday. More.....

On 13 November at 07:45:40 UT (2:45 a.m. EST) the Rosetta spacecraft made its third and final Earth flyby at an altitude of 2481 km before its long journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For more information, see the ESA Press Release.