Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Solar System Missions update 2023-02

Here's my map of all active and planned Solar System Missions and their destinations as of February 1st 2023

The next events will be Hakuto-R1's orbital insertion into Moon orbit in March, followed by landing on the Moon near Atlas Crater in April. Also in April will be the launches of the japanese SLIM lunar lander, and ESAs JUICE mission to Jupiter.

The Lucy asteroid explorer gained a new destination and will fly by main belt asteroid 1999 VD57 already in November this year. Tianwen-2 meanwhile has a change in ultimate destination to comet 311P/PanSTARRS

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

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