Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Solar System Missions Update 2020-07

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

Parker Solar Probe is headed for its third Venus flyby on the 11th which will further lower its perihelion to 0.095 AU. Meanwhile, Juno has the 28th perijove on the 25th.

But the big ticket item happens on Earth, where the fleet of Mars missions are in full mating season right now (to their lauchers, get it?) for launches in July or early August. The current expected launch dates are the 14th for Al Amal, the 22nd for Perseverance and the 23rd for Tianwen-1

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

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