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Astrophysics

JAXA's XRISM mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...

Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...

Heliophysics

The Parker Solar Probe made its 15^th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.

ESA's Solar Orbiter reached its 6^th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.

The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.

Lunar and Planetary Science

The CNSA (China) Chang'e-6 lunar sample return mission is scheduled to launch on May 3 at 7:50 UT (3:50 a.m. EDT) on a Long March 5 booster from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully started transmitting engineering data on 20 April for the first time since November 14, 2023. A software fix circumvented a chip failure that had prevented useful data from being sent. For more, see the JPL news release.

Communications were reestablished with the Japanese SLIM lunar lander on March 26 after it survived its second lunar night.