Space Mission

 Juice mission

• European Space Agency (ESA)
• Jupiter Icy  Moons Explorer mission in April 2023
• Moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

Russia’s Luna 25 mission

• Moon 
• July 2023

Ispace’s Hakuto R mission, Rashid Rover

• ispace
• Japanese Space Technology
• the Hakuto lander launched in December 2022, it is only expected to reach the Moon by April 2023

Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

The world's largest radio astronomy facility is currently under construction in Australia and South Africa. Scientists will use the exceptionally powerful Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to probe the mysteries of the universe.

Source: The Indian Express

An asteroid sample

• NASA OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, 
• Asteroid Bennu

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Sonification Project

• NASA
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Carina Nebula

Sonification

• Non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data

Hayabusa-2 mission

• was launched in December 2014
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) 
• To study the asteroid Ryugu
• Ryugu is also classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs). and was discovered in 1999.
• The Hayabusa mission-1 brought samples from the asteroid Itokawa in 2010.

Asteroids

• Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun, much smaller than planets
• called minor planets

NASA

• NASA’s OSIRIS-REX mission collected samples from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020, which will be brought to Earth in 2023.

Source: The Indian Express

Artemis(goddess of the moon) Mission: NASA

• NASA’s Artemis mission aims to put humans back on the moon
• Space Launch System (SLS), which will carry all the spacecraft part of Artemis missions.
• next generation of lunar exploration.

CAPSTONE

• Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment
• It will study a specific orbit where NASA plans to build a small space station for astronauts to stop at before and after going to the moon’s surface.
• about the size of a microwave oven
• Not Launched by Space-X or NASA

Halo orbit

• The orbits are those influenced by the gravity of two bodies

Space agencies

1. Canadian Space Agency
2. The European Space Agency
3. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

James Webb Space Telescope