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The EscaPADE spacecraft (designated Blue and Gold) were launched at 20:55 UTC on 13 November 2025 from Cape Canaveral, FL. Their mission is to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars
The ispace Resilience lunar lander mission was scheduled to land on the Moon on 05 June 2025 at 19:17 UT (3:17 p.m. EDT, 4:17 a.m. 06 June JST) in Mare Frigoris. Ground controllers lost communication shortly before the landing. It is assummed the spacecraft crashed on the surface.
Cosmos 482, a failed Soviet Venus probe launched in 1972 but left stranded in an elliptical Earth orbit that has slowly been decaying, re-entered the atmosphere on 10 May at 6:24 UT. Because the probe was designed to withstand entry into the Venusa atmosphere, it may have survived re-entry, but it would have landed in the Indian Ocean