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Space-weather sentinels, commercial lunar missions, and lots of planetary flybys are on tap this year. IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will be launched in 2025.NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Princeton University / Steve Gribben Get ready for another busy year in spaceflight 2025. Of course, 2024 was an amazing year, as NASA’s Europa […]
Lucy flies past Earth, in this artist’s conception.NASA An exciting mission is about to re-visit our fair planet this week on Thursday night/Friday morning, as NASA’s Lucy spacecraft passes Earth in a bid to pick up speed. The gravitational assist will have Lucy fly by around 11:15 p.m. EST on December 12th (4:15 Universal Time […]
An artist’s conception of the Proba 3 mission in space. ESA The rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse offers us a chance to see the elusive solar corona in person. But this moment is fleeting, making this region near the dazzling Sun poorly understood. Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has launched Proba 3, […]