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Thrilled to announce that Jennie King and I will be giving the Paul Sykes Annual Lecture at the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on March 19th at the SFU Burnaby Mountain Campus.
Our talk is titled Exploring Our Horizons: Working with NASA Data and we'll talk about @space-missions.com and more!
If you're a fan of Space Missions and you're in the Vancouver area, we have some exciting news coming soon!
the Sun with Venue, Earth and Juice orbiting with fading trails behind them.
We now show trails behind the bodies...
space-missions.com/mission/juice/
Glowing cyan interface reading LAST KNOWN LOCATION Julian Date: 2460910 ISO Date: 2025-08-22
New feature: when a probe is no longer tracked, going to its mission page will show the LAST KNOWN LOCATION
space-missions.com/mission/akat...
a display marked Location that shows little circles for Juice, Earth, Sun, Venus, Callisto, Jupiter, Europa, and Ganymede along with the Julian and ISO Data and the fact it's currently being tracked by the MLG dish in Argentina.
Big new feature!
We now show the location of craft and relevant bodies on the mission pages:
For example: space-missions.com/mission/juice/
a display marked Location that shows little circles for Juice, Earth, Sun, Venus, Callisto, Jupiter, Europa, and Ganymede along with the Julian and ISO Data and the fact it's currently being tracked by the MLG dish in Argentina.
Big new feature!
We now show the location of craft and relevant bodies on the mission pages:
For example: space-missions.com/mission/juice/
Artemis II is now included on Space Missions
space-missions.com/mission/arte...
Via #NASA - Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal: All SLS Stages in Replenish Mode www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
The best skywatching and stargazing events of 2026
Here is a complete list of astronomical events—from meteor showers to total eclipses to planetary conjunctions—that @philplait.bsky.social is most looking forward to observing this year. Remember to check your local timings for when exactly these events will take place! 🌠 bit.ly/45FnoL3
Comic strip Frame 1: NG-2 on the launch pad. Speech bubble from the payload: "Let's light this candle" Frame 2: Rocket assending. "Woohoo! We're on our way!" Frame 3: Second stage above the earth. Payload exposed showing two probes. One says "Mars here we come!" Frame 4: Second stage in space. Second probe says "Apparently we have to stop at L2 first." Frame 5: The two probes alone in space. "We're at L2! Now what?" "I guess we wait. Shouldn't be long!" Frame 6: Headed "One Year Later..." Same probes. The first just saying "..."
And NG-2 clock reset ~30 minutes
NG-2 Hold at T-0:00:20
The countdown to Mars in ON! Today our twin spacecraft for NASA and UCB's ESCAPADE mission are set to lift off from Cape Canaveral.
🚀 2:57 PM EST
🚀 19:57 UTC
Mission info: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/esc...
Launch webcast starts at T-20 mins: blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
NG-2 (and hence ESCAPADE) launch postponed due to solar activity.
ESCAPADE's launch is now NET November 12th
space-missions.com/mission/esca...
We've updated space-missions.com/mission/esca... with the next launch possibility.
Hold, and presumably scrub for today's NG-2 launch attempt.
Blue Origin Readies Second New Glenn Mission With Two Mars Cubesats Onboard spacepolicyonline.com/news/blue-or...
Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.
https://cnn.it/49FLkR0
Fun fact: the very first event we added to our site was the launch of Europa Clipper which happened one year ago today!
Now DSS25 (Goldstone) is!
Earlier today, DNS Madrid seemed to be communicating with Juno!
Sounds like there might be news later in the week
Hard to find out what’s happening with Juno. We had them down for mission end this month but haven’t heard confirmation.
Pic of asteroid Donaldjohanson with annotations for recognized names of its geologic features. Few annotations added by me. Names include: Afar Lobus (Lobe) Olduvai Lobus (Lobe) Windover Collum (Neck) Hadar Regio (Region) Minatogawa Regio (Region) Narmada (Crater) Mingo (Crater) Luzia Dorsum (Ridge) Cashel Saxum (Boulder) Kennewicks Saxum (Boulder) Boxgrove Saxum (Boulder) Credit: NASA Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
Asteroid Donaldjohanson just got some new names for its various surface features.
The names were proposed by the NASA Lucy mission team to the IAU based on various paleoanthropological sites and discoveries.
science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
#PlanetSci
Screenshot of part of a web page showing the planet Mars, with text that read: The Mars Report.
One-stop resource from NASA about yesterday's announcement of a potential biosignature on Mars: science.nasa.gov/mars/the-mar...
JUICE (hopefully) had its Venus Gravity Assist
space-missions.com/mission/juice/