Space Missions to watch in 2025
Space Missions to watch in 2025
1. NASA's CLPS Initiative
NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) will deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon using commercial landers. Several missions are planned, including deliveries by Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Firefly Aerospace.
2. SPHEREx Mission
NASA plans to launch the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) in February 2025. This mission will survey the sky in near-infrared light to create a comprehensive map of the universe.
3. ESA's Space Rider
The European Space Agency (ESA) will conduct an orbital test flight of its Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of 2025. This reusable spacecraft will carry out various scientific experiments in low Earth orbit.
4. Japan's M2/Resilience Mission
Scheduled for January 2025, this mission will launch a lander and micro-rover to the lunar surface to study lunar soil and conduct a water-splitting test to produce oxygen and hydrogen.
5. China's Tianwen-2 Mission
This ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe
mission is scheduled for launch in May 2025. It aims to collect samples
from a near-Earth asteroid and study a comet.
6. Deep-Space Flyby Missions
Several space agencies plan to perform exciting deep-space
flyby missions in 2025, including ESA's BepiColombo, NASA's Europa
Clipper, ESA's Hera mission, NASA's Lucy mission, and ESA's JUICE
mission.
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