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Astrophysics

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed as of 1:17 p.m. EST, Saturday, 08 January 2022. More...

NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on 09 December 2021. More...

Heliophysics

Voyager 2 became the second spacecraft (the first was Voyager 1) to escape the heliosphere and enter insterstellar space. More...

The Parker Solar Probe made its first perihelion pass on 05 November 2018, coming within 25 million km of the Sun. The probe will orbit the Sun over the course of the next seven years, ultimately coming closer than 7 million km from the Sun's surface.

Lunar and Planetary Science

The NASA Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), also named Danuri, launched successfully on 04 August at 23:08 UT (7:08 p.m. ET) on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral. It will use a low-energy lunar transfer trajectory to reach the Moon and go into orbit on 16 December 2022.

The James Webb Space Telescope released its first science images and data on July 12. For more, see the NASA Press Release and the Webb First Images site.

The CAPSTONE lunar mission launched on 28 June at 09:55 UT (5:55 a.m. EDT). For more, see the NASA Press Release.