Pandora is a small satellite designed to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and their host stars. It is slated to observe at least 20 different planets during its one year of science operations.

Looks like an interesting mission, which will look for hazes, clouds and water in exoplanets and help search for any indications that life may exist out side of our solar system.

There are some good contenders out there, but nothing concrete has, as yet, been found and there does seem to be quite a few criteria for this.

• NASA Pandora
  • Science Daily Article
• NASA Exoplanets
• Spectroscopy of Exoplanets
• ScienceDaily – Extra Solar Planets

Discuss

• Open Astronomy – Matrix
• Science forums – Exoplanets

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Just reposting this so followers can get an update on the mission

The ESA's BepiColombo mission has now made it its sixth Mercury flyby, Images and information are now available on the mission news page

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The mission

Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, the Biomass mission is designed to deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing, and to further our knowledge of the role forests play in the carbon cycle.

• 2/5/2025 – The launch was successful.

Launch Date : 29th April 2025

• Mission information
• Live Launch

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Updates from the Parker solar probe mission

An Update from NASA

Papers and research

• arXiv- Parker Solar Probe: Four Years of Discoveries at Solar Cycle Minimum

• arXiv – Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe: Multi-viewpoint messengers of the inner heliosphere

  The spacecraft is expected to send back detailed telemetry data on its status on Jan. 1.
  

• Mission Page

  • Mission update

• @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz/113709013707911366">Fedi post

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NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches Sun’ In Defining Moment For Humankind

It may be Christmas Day, this does not mean science has stopped, Just spotted this update to the Parker Probe mission.

An update from Forbes on the Parker Probe mission

Not sure if / when the communication black out is going to be, but it seems so far so good for the mission.

• Mission Page
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The ESA's BepiColombo mission is due to make its fifth flyby of Mercury on 1st December. A major milestone before the orbital phase of the mission starts. You can read more about the mission on the ESA Blogpost

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Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

Another item found on the Fediverse, decentralized social media. This is a new ESA mission to the asteroid Apophis.

Links

• European Space agancy
  • Mission page

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“Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission made history on Feb. 22, with the first successful Moon landing*

This will be the first of several missions before the next Atemis mission to fly a crewed mission around the moon, before the Artemis III mission to land humans on the moon in a few years.

Exciting times ahead. You can read more about the IM-1 mission here

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This week saw Japan become only the 5th country to land on the moon. This has been achieved using their SLIM mission, Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM).

At the time of writing this, the mission status is that they landed on the moon, but there are issues with the solar panels preventing power to the lander. However, landing on the moon is very difficult. So this success proved the technology worked.

More information will be available in due course, in the meantime there is a link to the mission website below.

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• SLIM Mission
  • Latest Information

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Nasa’s Parker mission poised for solar ‘landing’ in 2024

This mission was launched in 2018. As this part of the mission draws to a close, a Fediverse post reminded me about it. This link to france24.com has some more information.

Lots of exciting things happening in 2024. this will be the first of many.

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