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To study Mars, specifically how the solar wind interacts with the planet’s weak magnetic field. It uses 2 small satellites to build a 3-dimensional picture of Mars’ space environment. Ev ✝️ Evolution and dynamics of Mars magnetoshphere ND atmospheric loss

NASA

New Glenn Blue Origin

 

2nd interplanetary spaceflight mission using aero braking. Designed to study Venus from orbit, not to land.

ISRO

LVM3

March, 2028

To study lunar volatile materials of the South Pole. ISRO will build the lander X while JAXA will provide the 250 kg rover

JAXA ISRO

H3

Expected in 2028-29

extract lunar sample through robotic arm, ascent from lunar surface and bring back the collected lunar sample to the Earth. ✝️ Landing site : MM4 ( Mons Mouton Region)

ISRO

LVM3

Expected in 2028

India’s first human spaceflight mission, launching crew of 3 members to an orbit of 400 km for a 3 days mission and bring them back safely to earth

ISRO

LVM33-stage

Expected in 2027

2 - meter aperture T. India's 3rd ground based solar observatory

 

Merak

Budget 2026 2027

13.7 meter mirror T. Will research exoplanet, universe origin. Infrared wavelength.

 

Hanle

 

first crewed mission marking the first time humans will journey to the vicinity of the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972

NASA CSA

(SLS) Block 1 rocket

April 2025

(codenamed ‘Anvesha’) is an advanced hyperspectral Earth observation and surveillance satellite developed primarily by the (DRDO)❌

ISRO

PSLV-C62

January 12, 2026

Weighing 2392 kg, a global, microwave imaging mission, with capability to acquire fully polarimetric and interferometric data. o It is world's 1st EOS to integrate both L-band and S-band (SAR) on a single platform.. this EOS will be launched to study environmental changes and benefit humanity. Operates in SSO mapping entire globe in 12 days

(NASA’s L-band and ISRO’s S-band)

GSLV-F16

July 30, 2025 Mission Life: 5 years

4th private astronaut mission, to the International Space Station (ISS), of private US Company Axiom Space in collab with NASA and SpaceX

Axiom Space

Falcon 9

June, 2025

Chinese mission aims to survey and sample asteroid Kamo'oalewa, then travel to the asteroid ( 2016H03) belt to study comet 311P/PANSTARRS.

CNSA

Long March 3B Rocket

June, 2025

101st mission aimed to place the Earth Observation Satellite into a Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO) . However, the mission failed ❌ due to an anomaly during the third stage of the PSLV rocket, preventing the satellite from reaching its intended orbit.

ISRO

PSLV -C61

May 18, 2025

Mission designed to provide detailed 3D maps of the worlds tropical forests using a P-band radar. Placed in SSO at an altitude of 666 km

ESA

Vega C rocket

April 29, 2025,

first human spaceflight directly over Earth's North and South Poles, studying the space environment and the effects of microgravity on the human body

NASA

Falcon 9 rocket.

April 1, 2025

A first-of-its-kind mission using 4 identical satellites to measure the corona and solar wind in 3D

NASA

Falcon 9

March 6, 2025

(SmallSat) mission launched on designed to map water and hydroxyl on the Moon's surface, particularly in sunlit regions and permanently shadowed regions (PSRs). Instruments: It carried the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) and the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM)

NASA

Falcon 9

February 26, 2025,

Successful 100th launch of ISRO, mission is part of India's NavIC 2nd satellite in the NVS series, replacing aging IRNSS satellites GTO ❌

ISRO

GSLV-F15

Jan 29, 2025

Demonstrate docking and undocking of two satellites in orbit SDX01 (Chaser) and SDX02 (Target) POEM - 4 Technology Demonstration & Microgravity Research

ISRO

PSLV - C60

Dec 30, 2024

world’s first precision formation-flying mission, designed to study the Sun’s atmosphere with unprecedented clarity.

ESA

PSLV- C59

Dec 05, 2024

India's first collaboration with SpaceX, this communication satellite has a mission life of 14 years and a loft off mass of 4700 KG. Ka-band satellite designed to enhance broadband services and in flight connectivity.

ISRO

Falcon - 9

November 2024

Chinese lunar mission that aims to collect samples from the moon and bring them back to earth.

CNSA

Long March-5

May - June 2024

First dedicated polarimetry mission to study the dynamics of bright Astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions

ISRO

PSLV - C58

Jan 01, 2024

India’s first dedicated solar mission Lifespan: 5 years

ISRO

PSLV - C57

Sept 02, 2023

located at the Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2Euclid uses visible and near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy to create a 3D map of the universe, observing billions of galaxies across a large part of the sky.

ESA

 

July 1, 2023

First mission to observe both poles of the Sun. Marks the first time any spacecraft has imaged the Sun's poles directly.

ESA & NASA

Atlas V 411

February 2020

India’s first dedicated astronomy satellite enabling simultaneous observations in UV, optical, soft X-ray and hard X-ray bands

ISRO

PSLV-C30

2015

Successor to the Hubble Space Type: Orbiting infrared observatory. • Orbit: Orbits the Sun 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth at second Lagrange point or L2. • Purpose: Study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems

NASA, (ESA) CSA

Ariane 5 ECA

December 25, 2021

Observe in Ultraviolet, visible and near infrared spectra. Location : Low Êarth Orbit ~ 570 km above

NASA & ESA

Space Shuttle Discovery

April 1990

This observatory focuses on high energy region of the universe. ✝️ Location : High Earth Orbit ~ 139,000 km.

NASA

Space Shuttle Columbia

July 1999

The probe, aims to get within 6 million km of the sun's surface. Mission is named after Eugene Parker, who predicted the existence of solar wind six decades ago.

NASA

Delta IV Heavy

2018

Positioned at Lagrange 2 to create a 3D map of Milky Way. Used twin telescopes directing light onto 1 camera with nearly 1 billion pixels. . () officially retired mission on March 27, 2025.

ESA

Soyuz ST - B / Freget - MT

Dec 2013

Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory () was a dual-spacecraft mission that involved placing two identical spacecraft in orbit around the Moon to use high-quality gravitational field mapping to determine its internal structure

NASA

 

2011

Currently the farthest man-made object from Earth, at more than a hundred times the distance from the Earth to the sun, and more than twice as far as Pluto.

NASA

Titan IIIE-Centaur

Sept 1977

It was the first spacecraft to visit the solar system's most photogenic gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn

NASA

Atlas Centaur

April 1973

Mars orbiter mission dedicated to studying the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, atmospheric escape processes of Mars to understand how the planet transformed from a warm, wet world to a cold, dry one.

NASA

Atlas V 401

November 18, 2013

33 feet long discovered by NASA ' Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System ( ATLAS) Labelled as mini moon ( 4) although debated.

Asteroid

 

 

City killer category

Asteroid

El sauce observatory. NASA & IAWN

 

interstellar a visitor from another star system, estimated to be between 3 and 11 billion years old. o It does not follow a closed orbital path about the Sun. high levels of nickel relative to iron

Comet

ATLAS telescope in Chile

July 1, 2025,

Has a faint but visible tail; will not return for nearly 20,000 years. • Currently visible above the Sagitt arius constellati on in the southern horizon.

Comet

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory’s SWAN instrument.

 

Brighter of the two, with a magnitude of 4.5, near visual threshold

Comet

 

 

A Supermassive black hole formed about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event. Characterized by Super - Eddington accretion.

BLACK HOLE

JWST & Chandra X Ray obs.

 

It is a stellar-mass black hole located in a binary system, paired with a normal star, and known for highly variable X-ray emissions

BLACK HOLE

ISRO

 

 

BLACK HOLE

LIGO

 

A gas giant exoplanet with supersonic jet Stream @ 33,000 kmph. Traces of water 💧 and CO. 30% larger than Jupiter but only 16% of its mass.

Exoplanet

 

 

Massive Super earth like Planet , 124 light years away. JWST detected DMS, DMDS.

Exoplanet

JWST

 

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have found a new superEarth

Exoplanet

TESS

 

a confirmed "super-Earth" exoplanet located about 600–640 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation, Size: It is a "Super-Earth," with a radius about 2.4 times that of Earth. Orbit: A year on lasts roughly 290 days. Its host star, Kepler-22, is a G-type star similar to our Sun but slightly smaller and cooler.

Exoplanet

NASA

December 2011

rocky exoplanet located in the outer region of its planetary system discovered by CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS)

Exoplanet

 

 

distant, fully developed spiral galaxy with a rotating disk, two symmetric spiral arms, and a central bulge—features thought to take billions of years to assemble

 

Discovered by (JWST)

 

(Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope) is a next-generation European deep-sea research infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea, designed to detect high-energy neutrinos and study their properties using Cherenkov radiation.

observatory

 

 

A rare Einstein ring around galaxy NGC 6505, located 590 million light-years away from Earth.

Ring

ESA

 

a rare, young, hierarchical quadruple star system located ~82 light-years away in the Antlia constellation

Quadruple Star System

 

 

A fast-moving, highly magnetized neutron star that has likely smashed into a massive, 230-light-year-long, radio-emitting filament known as "The Snake" or Galactic "Bone" G359.13.

neutron star

NASA Chandra X-ray