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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

A new asteroid has been added to the itinerary of the Lucy mission. It will fly within 450 km of asteroid 1999 V57 on 01 November 2023. For more information, see the 25 January NASA press release.

The InSight Mars Lander mission has been declared over after ground controllers failed to communicate with the lander on two separate attempts. For more, see the 21 December NASA press release.

The Hakuto-R M1 lunar landing mission and the Lunar Flashlight Moon orbiting cubesat successfully launched together on 11 December at 07:38 UT (2:38 a.m. EST).