Saturday, July 31, 2021

Solar System Missions Update 2021-08

Here's my map of all active and future Solar System Missions as of August 1st 2021.

The inner Solar System is where it's at this month, with an almost simultaneous encounter at Venus of ESAs Solar Orbiter on the 9th and Bepi Colombo on the 10th, along with JAXAs Akatsuki already in Venus orbit. [Flyby dates corrected]

Parker Solar Probe has its 9th perihelium on the 9th at a distance of 0.074 AU, or a bit more than 11 million kilometers.

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

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