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The CNSA (China)
Chang'e-6
lunar sample return mission is scheduled to launch on May 3 at 7:50 UT (3:50 a.m. EDT)
on a Long March 5 booster from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.
The
Voyager 1
spacecraft successfully started transmitting engineering data on 20 April for the first
time since November 14, 2023. A software fix circumvented a chip failure that had
prevented useful data from being sent.
For more, see the
JPL news release.
Communications were reestablished with the Japanese
SLIM
lunar lander on March 26 after it survived its second lunar night.
- 1848
- Asteroid 9 Metis discovered by Andrew Graham.
- 1983
- Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to reach a distance from the Sun greater than Pluto.
- 1990
- Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope from space shuttle Discovery.
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