Monday, September 30, 2019

Solar System Missions Update 2019-10

Here's my map of all active and future Solar System Missions as of October 1st 2019.

The month Hayabusa will perform its last task at asteroid Ryugu, dropping off the Minerva II2 rover. In November or December it will depart for Earth to return the samples it collected earlier on.

Chandrayaan 2 is still in lunar orbit, sadly, the Vikram lander appears to not having survived its lunar touchdown. Still active on the lunar far side are Chang'e 4 and the Yutu 2 rover, presumably waking up for another lunar day of work.

Data, images and documentation are available on my space exploration history GitHub repository and the associated website.

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