What's New in Lunar & Planetary Science
The Japanese Space Agency Resilience (Hakuto-M2) lunar lander and rover and the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander were launched successfully on 15 January 2025 at 06:11 UT (1:11 a.m. EST). For more, see the NASA press release and the ispace news release.
The European Space Agency Bepi-Colombo mission made its sixth Mercury flyby on 08 January.
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- First successful launch of a Titan booster, to ~300 km (~200 miles) altitude.
- 2004
- The Beagle 2 Mars lander was declared lost after over a month of silence following the landing.
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