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Astrophysics
NASA's
SPHEREx
mission was successfully launched from Vandenberg launch facility at
03:10 UT 12 March.
JAXA's
XRISM
mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September 2023.
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...
Heliophysics
NASA's
PUNCH
mission, consisting of four spacecraft to make observations of the sun, was
successfully launched at 03:10 UT on 12 March.
The
Parker Solar Probe
made its 15th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU,
on 17 March 2023.
ESA's
Solar Orbiter
reached its 6th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.
Lunar and Planetary Science
The ispace
Resilience
lunar lander mission is scheduled to land on the Moon on 5 June 2025 at the earliest.
Cosmos 482,
a failed Soviet Venus probe launched in 1972 but left stranded in an elliptical Earth orbit that has slowly been decaying, reentered the atmosphere on May 10 at 6:24 UT. Because the probe was designed to withstand entry into the Venus atmosphere, it may have survived reentry, but it would have landed in the Indian Ocean.
The
Lucy
mission flew within about 960 km of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on 20 April 2025 with closest approach at 17:51 UT (1:51 p.m. EDT). For images from the flyby and more information, see
the Lucy news release.