Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Solar System Missions Update 2020-04

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

So the Mars 2020 rover finally has a name: Say hello to Perseverance. On the other hand it is currently difficult to say if any of the 2020 launches to Mars and the Moon will happen on time. I've left them in the schedule as is for the time being. Very likely delayed will be the launches of the components for the Lunar Gateway station, which has been declared "off the critical path" for the 2024 Artemis-3 Moon landing. I guess that means it will happen after that, if ever :(.

Meanwhile, BepiColombo will do an Earth flyby on the 10th, and probably be quite happy to just go on to the inner Planets, and in the other direction Juno will celebrate its 26th Perijove at Jupiter, also on the 10th.

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

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