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India seeks to join exclusive company with ambitious moon mission

14 July 2019 Stephen Clark

India’s ambitious $142 million Chandrayaan 2 moon mission, comprising a orbiter, lander and rover, is set for liftoff Sunday to begin a nearly two-month transit culminating in a touchdown near the lunar south pole in September.

Ariane 5 launches two satellites on 7-year voyage to Mercury

21 October 2018 William Harwood

A powerful European Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana late Friday and boosted a pair of satellites into space for a seven-year plunge into the inner solar system, a voyage requiring seven planetary flybys to slow down enough in the sun’s gravitational clutches to slip into orbit around hellish Mercury.

All-sky surveyor launched from Cape Canaveral on the hunt for exoplanets

19 April 2018 Stephen Clark

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, built to find planets around other stars that are close enough for detailed follow-ups by future telescopes, launched Wednesday into a unique high-altitude orbit on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

India seeks to join exclusive company with ambitious moon mission

Ariane 5 launches two satellites on 7-year voyage to Mercury

All-sky surveyor launched from Cape Canaveral on the hunt for exoplanets

Chinese astronomy satellite placed into orbit by Long March rocket

OSIRIS-REx probe launched to asteroid in compelling search for the origins of life

Live coverage: The launch of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission

Voyager 2 launched today in 1977

Black hole observatory launched from Japan

Atlas rocket puts on a spectacular pre-dawn sky show