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Chandrayaan programme. ← Chandrayaan-1. Chandrayaan-3 →. Chandrayaan-2 ( pronunciation ⓘ; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after Chandrayaan-1.
Retrieved 7 December2019. ^McDowell, Jonathan [@planet4589](6 December 2019). "The Kosmos-2542 satellite, in a 368 x 857 km x 97 deg orbit, deployed a subsatellite today (likely codenamed Kosmos-2543). The Russian Defense Ministry says it's an inspector satellite; the mission appears to repeat Kosmos-2519/2521.
21 September 2018: First operational rover on an asteroid (162173 Ryugu). Japan (JAXA) Hayabusa2: 1 December 2018: First recorded sounds from Mars. USA (NASA) InSight: 1 January 2019: First flyby of a classical Kuiper belt object (486958 Arrokoth). First flyby of a contact binary. First spacecraft to make two different flybys in the Kuiper belt.
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
Unix time. 1546300800 – 1577836799. 2019 ( MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.
This requirement has been satisfied by the Falcon Heavy test flight in February 2018, Arabsat-6A in April 2019, and the STP-2 launch in June 2019. Falcon Heavy has been certified for two Phase 1A reference orbits and as of 2019, "it's not certified for all of our most stressing national security space orbits," Thompson said. [43]
The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. [6] [8]
The NASA InSightseismology probe was launched in May 2018 and landed on Mars in November. The Parker Solar Probewas launched to explore the Sunin August 2018, and reached its first perihelion in November, traveling faster than any prior spacecraft. On 20 October the ESAand JAXAlaunched BepiColomboto Mercury, on a 10-year mission featuring ...