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What do you know about ESA's PLATO space telescope mission?

European Space Agency's (ESA) PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a space telescope mission that is developing under ESA's Cosmic Vision program. The spacecraft is targeting to launch in 2026 and it will explore for 4 years.

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What do you know about NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout Spacecraft?

Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) is a NASA's planned CubeSat solar sail spacecraft mission to encountering near-Earth asteroids (NEA). This is developing under NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Program.

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Read about: ESA's Athena the X-ray observatory mission

Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics aka Athena is an X-ray telescope designing by European Space Agency (ESA) as a part of its Cosmic Vision program. The telescope will send to the Halo orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system (L2). It will also be the location for the ESA's Euclid space telescope.

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What do you know about NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission?

The Opportunity (Oppy) was a robotic rover part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission launched in 2003. It was land on Mars in 2004 and searched for signs of past life in the Red Planet for like 15 years. After a Mars-wide dust storm in June 2018, the Opportunity rover lost its communications with Earth.

The Opportunity has worked on Mars longer than any other robot. The mission planned for only 90 days and to travel 1000 meters, but it worked for nearly 15 years and traveled more than 45 kilometres. The Opportunity mission is considered one of NASA's most successful missions.

In 2014, The Oppy became the rover that traveled the longest off-world distance by passing the previous record of USSR's Lunokhod 2 which traveled 39 km on the Moon.

After over 1000 recovery commands transmitted before February 13, 2019. NASA officials held a press conference on February 13 to declare an official end to the mission and declare the Opportunity mission is complete.

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Learn about Japan's Martian Moons Exploration Mission

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission is a project to explore the two moons of Mars. The robotic space probe planned to launch in 2024 and it will arrive at Mars in 2025.

The spacecraft will explore the two moons of mars the Phobos and the Deimos for like 3 years, before sending the samples collected by this spacecraft back to Earth from the Sample Return Capsule.

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What do you know about NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Earth observation satellite?

NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) aka NISAR Mission is an Earth-observing joint mission between NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar. On September 30, 2014, NASA and ISRO signed for this joint mission to and launch the NISAR spacecraft.

The Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) using advanced radar imaging technology to find causes and consequences of land surface changes. This satellite will be the first radar imaging satellite that uses dual frequencies.

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What do you know about ESA's Euclid Space Telescope?

Euclid is a European Space Agency's (ESA) mission to map the geometry of the dark universe with a near-infrared space telescope that is under development by ESA.

The Euclid mission named after a Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria will launch in 2022. It will launch from a Soyuz rocket family or an Ariane Group's launch vehicle.

The spacecraft is designing to have a launch mass of 2100 kg and to last it at least for 6 years. It will send to the Halo orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system (L2).

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Read about: United Launch Alliance's Atlas V Launch Vehicle

United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system (a launch vehicle that can launch only one time). The Atlas V is the fifth major version and the newest member of the Atlas family. Its First Flight was in August 2002. Also, the Mars 2020 mission launched on an Atlas V launch vehicle.

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Read about: NASA Artemis program Humanity's Return to the Moon

The Artemis is NASA's crewed spaceflight program with the mission of "Humanity's Return to the Moon." From this mission, NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.

Astronauts will send to NASA's Orion spacecraft from NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle. It will be the primary launch vehicle in this mission. After that astronauts will dock to the Gateway and transfer to a human landing system for land on the Moon.

NASA will collaborate with some of its commercial and international partners such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Australian Space Agency to establish sustainable missions by 2028.

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Read about: NASA's Psyche a Mission to Metal World

The Psyche is the first mission to explore a metal world. It is a NASA's planned orbiter mission to asteroid 16 Psyche which is orbiting the Sun between planet Mars and planet Jupiter. The spacecraft is planned to launch in 2022 onboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle and it will arrive at 16 Psyche in 2026.

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What do you know about United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur?

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur is a next-generation heavy-lift launch vehicle. The rocket is under development since 2014 and it will launch its first test flight in 2021.

The first test flight of the Vulcan Centaur will launch with the Astrobotic's Peregrine lander to the Moon which is a payload delivery module. The Vulcan Centaur will replace the Delta IV Heavy.

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Read about: India's Third Moon Mission Chandrayaan-3

India's third moon mission Chandrayaan-3 will launch next year (2021). The lunar exploration mission will conduct by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Chandrayaan-3 mission will contain a lunar lander and a rover, this mission will not have an orbiter like the past Chandrayaan-2 mission.

Chandrayaan-3 will launch to its designated orbit by India's most powerful three-stage launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III which also used to launch the Chandrayaan-2.

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Read about: USA Heavy Lifter United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy

Delta IV Heavy is a United Launch Alliance's expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle. This launch vehicle successfully launched the humanity’s first visit to a star NASA's Parker Solar Probe in 2018.

The Delta IV Heavy rocket able to carry up to 28,370 kg to the low earth orbit. The rocket is the largest in the Delta IV family also it was the world's highest payload carrier before SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.

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NASA SpaceX planned Crew Dragon Splashdown on August 2, 2020

A new era of human spaceflight begun as American astronauts once again launched on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley flew on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket on May 30, 2020.

On August 2, 2020, NASA and SpaceX planned for the homecoming of these two astronauts, after two months in ISS. The Crew Dragon Splashdown will be the first crewed water landing in 45 years.

However, the schedule will be changed if the weather at Crew Dragon splashdown location is not good.

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NASA successfully launched the Perseverance rover to Mars

Today, 30th of July 2020 NASA successfully launched the Mars 2020 mission which includes the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone. The Mars 2020 mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

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Read about: Soviet Space Shuttle Buran

The Buran was a Soviet space shuttle that was a part of the Buran program. It was the Soviet Union's complement to NASA's space shuttle program, also using a spaceplane multiple times helps to reduce the cost of space exploration.

The Buran spacecraft flew in space only one time. That was an uncrewed spaceflight that launched in 1988 on Soviet Energia rocket. The Energia was a partially recoverable super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The spacecraft was destroyed after the hangar roof fell in at its storage facility in 2002.

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Read about: ESA-JAXA BepiColombo Space Mission

BepiColombo is a joint space mission between the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, to Mercury to orbit and to study the planet from unique vantage points. The BepiColombo mission based on two Spacecrafts, Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).

The BepiColombo was launched in October 2018 from an Ariane 5 launch vehicle and It is planned to begin orbiting Mercury in 2025, both orbiters are expected to operate for about one year. A transfer module called Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) also launched in this mission.

Before this ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission, NASA's Mariner 10 Space probe and NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft reached planet Mercury successfully.

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