Spacecraft | Country | Description | following on Twitter | Google Search | Nasa.gov |
New Horizons | US | Ultima Thule flyby | NASA New Horizons @NASANewHorizons | new horizons | Home |
Osiris-Rex | US | Enter orbit of asteroid Bennu | NASA's OSIRIS-REx @OSIRISREx | osiris-rex | Home |
Chang’e-4 | China | Landing a lander and rover on the dark side of the moon | Chris B - NSF @NasaSpaceflight SpaceRef China @ChinaInSpace |
chang’e-4 | |
InSight | US | Stationed on Mars | nasa insight news | ||
Hayabusa-2 | Japan | orbit asteroid Ryugu | BBC article:
Hayabusa 2: Asteroid image shows touchdown marks 2/25/19
BBC article: Hayabusa 2: Japanese spacecraft makes final touchdown on asteroid |
Count | Telescope Name | Links | Light Waves | Country or Lead Space Agency | Launch Date | Description | Cost | Rocket |
1 | Euclid space telescope | BBC Article | visible and the infrared | European Space Agency (Esa) | 2022 | will map the cosmos for clues to the nature of dark matter and dark energy | €800m | a Russian Soyuz OR Europe's new Ariane-62 rocket |
2 | Spektr-RG | BBC Article | X-ray | Russia & Germany | July 13, 2019 | map X-rays across the entire sky in unprecedented detail investigate the mysterious cosmic components referred to as "dark matter" and "dark energy" |
Proton rocket | |
3 | The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) | Home Page | Spectroscopic Instrument | America Department of Energy Office of Science |
start date 2019 | baryon acoustic oscillations techniques that rely on spectroscopic measurements |
Ground based
Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory |
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4 | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project | About LSST | 10 year survey - 500 petabyte set of images and data products ....
about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it |
Ground based
Cerro Pachón ridge in north-central Chile |
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