Lagrange 101 - Blog Posts
ESA's Cosmic Vision science programme, CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite).
Mariner 10 (03/11/1973 - 24/03/1975)
January 2021 → October 2021
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"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to successfully collect a sample from an asteroid. On Oct. 20, 2020, the spacecraft briefly touched down on Bennu, an asteroid more than 200 million miles from Earth, and grabbed dust and rocks from a sample site called Nightingale."
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[04/10/1957] — Бип...бип...бип...
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. It was around the size of a beach ball, weighed 83.6 kg (183.9 pounds), and took about 98 minutes to orbit Earth on its elliptical path. This ushered in a new age of political, military, technological, and scientific developments, and although the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
ESA's Gaia observatory. 🌌
“Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy.”
"I've travelled 4.9 billion miles, executed 2.5 million commands, and sent 453,048 beautiful photographs back to those awaiting at home. Countless papers were published amidst my findings — with more yet to come."
"It'll be my birthday in a month, I'll be turning 20 years of age. But I'm afraid that'll have to wait."
"My last order has been given."
"My name is Cassini. I was born for you. And today, I'll face the end for you."
15/9/2017 — The Plunge: A mission's end. Four years ago on this very day, as it took one final image of the gas giant, the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn — the ringed queen of skies — becoming a part of the planet it had orbited since 2004.
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