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Astrophysics

JAXA's XRISM mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...

Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...

Heliophysics

The Parker Solar Probe made its 15^th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.

ESA's Solar Orbiter reached its 6^th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.

The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.

Lunar and Planetary Science

The European Space Agency Hera mission to the Didymos / Dimorphos asteroid system to visit the impact site of the DART mission launched on October 7 at 14:52 UT (10:52 a.m. EDT). It has successfully left Earth orbit with a nominal 2nd stage burn.

Due to Hurricane Milton, launch of the NASA Europa Clipper mission to explore Jupiter's 4th largest moon has been delayed from its original October 10 date to later in October.

Launch of the EscaPADE dual spacecraft mission to Mars has been postponed from its original window opening October 13 to no earlier than spring of 2025. For more information, see the NASA EscaPADE blog.