What's New in Lunar & Planetary Science
Operations of the JAXA Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) from the lunar surface were officially ended on 23 August, following numerous unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander after its final contact on 28 April. For more, see the JAXA Press Release.
NASA announced the award of the CP-22 CLPS mission to the lunar south pole to Intuitive Machines. For more, see the NASA press release.
The ESA Bepi-Colombo mission will make its fourth Mercury flyby on 05 September. The spacecraft will go into orbit around Mercury, after two more flybys, on 05 December 2025.
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- Luna 18 sample return mission crashes on the Moon.
- 1985
- ICE (ISEE 3) flies within 7800 km of Giacobini-Zinner, first-ever comet flyby.
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