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Astrophysics

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite launched into orbit on 14 December 2009. More....

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....

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

The Rosetta spacecraft flies by asteroid 21 Lutetia on 10 July at 15:45 UT (spacecraft time), 16:10 UT (ground received time). The spacecraft will come within 3170 km of the asteroid. For more, see the ESA press release.

The Japanese Hayabusa sample return capsule from asteroid Itokawa re-entered Earth's atmosphere at 13:51 UT (10:51 p.m. JST) on June 13 and its landing location confirmed at the Woomera Prohibited Area in Australia an hour later.