Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Solar System Missions Update 2020-01

Here's my map of all active and future Solar System Missions as of January 1st 2020.

The Year starts with the fourth perihelion for the Parker Solar Probe, now after last month' Venus flyby at 0.13 AU distance.

This year is a Mars launch opportunity, with as much as four missions: NASA JPL's 2020 Rover, ESA's Exomars Rosalind Franklin rover and Russian Kazachok lander, the Chinese Huoxing Orbiter/Lander/Rover and the Emirates' Mars Hope orbiter, all planned to use the July to August launch window. Further missions to take off this year are Solar Orbiter in February, the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter in July, and the Chinese Chang'E 5 lunar sample return mission in december.

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

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