Here's my map of all active and planned Solar System Missions and their destinations as of June 1st 2024.
The Japanese SLIM lander has not woken up on the lastest sunrise, but JAXA hasn't given up yet. Neither have they done that with the Akatsuki Venus mission, which seems to have problems since April.
The Chinese Chang'e 6 lunar farside sample return mission touches down on the Moon this month, and if everything works return the sample probe at the end of June. The Chang'e 5 bus has left the lunar NRO orbit to a heliocentric one, heading to only CNSA knows, so I put it on 'somewhere beyond the Earth/Moon system'.
NASA's Juno has it's 62th perijove at Jupiter. Parker Solar Probe performs the 20th perihelions at a distance of 0.0528 AU. In other NASA news, the Starliner spacecraft may perform the first crewed mission to the ISS this Month.
Data, images and documentation are available on my space exploration history GitHub repository and the associated website.
Nice graphical representation for all missions at a glance. One small note: China's Chang'e 8 LSR mission is scheduled for launch in 2028.
ReplyDeleteWhoops CE-8 South Pole mission, not LSR mission. That would be Chang'e 6.
DeleteChina's crewed lunar mission, cir 2030
ReplyDeleteTianwen 3 MSR to Earth, 2032