Liftoff: China Chang'e-6 Moon Mission to Retrieve Samples from Far Side South Pole

Liftoff: China Chang'e-6 Moon Mission to Retrieve Samples from Far Side South Pole

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft, blasted off from its launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan on Friday afternoon, May 3, 2024. The probe will take samples on the far side of the Moon and bring them back to Earth in a world-first. 

This mission features scientific payloads from countries that include France, Italy, Sweden, and Pakistan. The international scientific payloads carried by the Chang'e-6 mission include the French radon gas detector (CNES), the European Space Agency/Swedish ion analyzer, and the Italian laser corner reflector (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), as well as the Pakistani ICUBE-Q cube satellite. The mission will last about 53 days. 

Chang'e-6's pre-selected landing area is located in the southern part of the Apollo basin in the SPA basin (43°±2° south latitude, 154°±4° west longitude).

In 2020, Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The mission made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.

Video Credit: New China TV

Duration: 44 seconds

Release Date: May 3, 2024

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China's Chang'e-6 Moon Mission: Returning Samples from Far Side South Pole

China's Chang'e-6 Moon Mission: Returning Samples from Far Side South Pole

China's Chang'e-6 science mission is conducting the first-ever human sample return from the far side of the moon with scientific payloads from countries that include France, Italy, Sweden, and Pakistan. The mission will last about 53 days. Here is an animated video of the process. 

Chang'e-6's pre-selected landing area is located in the southern part of the Apollo basin in the SPA basin (43°±2° south latitude, 154°±4° west longitude). The international scientific payloads carried by the Chang'e-6 mission include the French radon gas detector (CNES), the European Space Agency/Swedish ion analyzer, and the Italian laser corner reflector (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), as well as the Pakistani ICUBE-Q cube satellite.

In 2020, Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The mission made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.

Video Credit: CNSA Watcher

Duration: 6 minutes, 31 seconds

Release Date: May 2, 2024

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Pre-launch: China Chang'e-6 Sample Return Mission to Moon's Far Side South Pole

Pre-launch: China Chang'e-6 Sample Return Mission to Moon's Far Side South Pole

Chang'e-6 lunar probe is to be launched on Friday, May 3, 2024, said the China National Space Administration on Wednesday. The lunar probe will be sent to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit by a Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket. This will be the second time for a carrier rocket of the Long March-5 series to carry out the launch mission of China's lunar exploration program (CLEP).

In 2020, Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The mission made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.

The probe will take samples on the far side of the Moon and bring them back to Earth in a world-first.

Considering factors like the Earth-Moon positional relationship, engineers have designed 10 trajectories for the two 50-minute windows, each on Friday and Saturday, to ensure the probe's arrival in the Moon.

Now all systems for the launch mission have undergone the last comprehensive rehearsal, and propellant will be injected into the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket.

Image Credits: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Image Dates: April 26-May 1, 2024

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China to Launch Chang'e-6 Sample Return Mission to Moon's Far Side South Pole

China to Launch Chang'e-6 Sample Return Mission to Moon's Far Side South Pole

Chang'e-6 lunar probe is to be launched on Friday, May 3, 2024, said the China National Space Administration on Wednesday. The lunar probe will be sent to the Earth-Moon transfer orbit by a Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket. This will be the second time for a carrier rocket of the Long March-5 series to carry out the launch mission of China's lunar exploration program.

In 2020, Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The mission made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.

The probe will take samples on the far side of the Moon and bring them back to Earth in a world-first.

Considering factors like the Earth-Moon positional relationship, engineers have designed 10 trajectories for the two 50-minute windows, each on Friday and Saturday, to ensure the probe's arrival in the Moon.

Now all systems for the launch mission have undergone the last comprehensive rehearsal, and propellant will be injected into the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket.

Video Credit: China Central Television (CCTV)

Duration: 48 seconds

Release Date: May 1, 2024

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Mars Images: April-May 2024 | NASA Mars Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Mars Images: April-May 2024 | NASA Mars Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Mars 2020 - sol 1135

Mars 2020 - sol 1130

MSL - 4168

Mars 2020 - sol 1130

MSL - sol 4164

MSL - sol 4171

MSL - sol 4168

MSL - sol 4164

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Celebrating 11+ Years on Mars (2012-2024)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Celebrating 3+ Years on Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: April 24-May 2, 2024

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Europe's New Astronauts Graduate: A Year in Training | European Space Agency

Europe's New Astronauts Graduate: A Year in Training | European Space Agency

The European Space Agency's newly graduated astronauts reach the end of one year of rigorous basic astronaut training. Discover the journey of Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois, Marco Sieber, and Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg. Selected in November 2022, the group began their training in April 2023.

Basic astronaut training provides the candidates with an overall familiarization and training in various areas, such as spacecraft systems, spacewalks, flight engineering, robotics and life support systems as well as survival and medical training. They received astronaut certification at the European Space Agency’s European Astronaut Centre on April 22, 2024.

Following certification, the new astronauts will move on to the next phases of pre-assignment and mission-specific training—paving the way for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond.

Australian Space Agency astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg Biography

https://www.space.gov.au/Katherine-Bennell-Pegg

ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan (UK) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Rosemary_Coogan

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot (France) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Sophie_Adenot

ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Pablo_Alvarez_Fernandez

ESA astronaut Marco Sieber (Switzerland) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Marco_Alain_Sieber

ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium) Biography

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Raphael_Liegeois

Credits:

Video: European Space Agency (ESA)

ISS and EVA footage: ESA/NASA

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: May 2, 2024  

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Atlas V Rocket Mission Profile: Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test | ULA

Atlas V Rocket Mission Profile: Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test | ULA

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the International Space Station. 

Launch Date and Time: May 6, 2024 at 10:34 p.m. EDT 

Launch updates: 

https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/atlas-v-starliner-cft

For more info on Starliner, visit: 

boeing.com/starliner

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: 

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Video Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 36 seconds

Release Date: May 2, 2024

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Atlas V Rocket Team: Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test | United Launch Alliance

Atlas V Rocket Team: Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test | United Launch Alliance

"As we return human spaceflight to the Atlas rocket, we pass the torch of knowledge to future generations, building on all we have learned."

Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go Starliner!

"Continuing Atlas' legacy of launching humans to space, ULA is using an Atlas V rocket to launch the Crew Flight Test (CFT) Mission to the International Space Station for NASA with Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. See how the Atlas V rocket was stacked ahead of launch."

Launch Date and Time: May 6, 2024 at 10:34 p.m. EDT 

Launch updates: 

https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/atlas-v-starliner-cft

For more info on Starliner, visit: 

boeing.com/starliner

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: 

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Video Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Duration: 5 minutes, 24 seconds

Release Date: May 1, 2024

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Dark Energy: How NASA is Unlocking One of the Biggest Mysteries of the Universe

Dark Energy: How NASA is Unlocking One of the Biggest Mysteries of the Universe

Only 5% of the known universe is visible to us. The other 95% is called dark matter and dark energy, and it is making scientists rethink what we know about the cosmos. Jet Propulsion Lab’s Fundamental Physics Portfolio Manager John Callas explains what dark energy is, why it is so hard to study, and what NASA is doing to unlock this big mystery.

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 42 seconds

Release Date: April 29, 2024

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The Waning Gibbous Moon | International Space Station

The Waning Gibbous Moon | International Space Station

The waning gibbous Moon begins setting below Earth's horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above China.

Follow Expedition 70 Updates: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: April 27, 2024

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What's Up for May 2024 | Skywatching Tips from NASA (Northern Hemisphere)

What's Up for May 2024 | Skywatching Tips from NASA (Northern Hemisphere)

Here are examples of skywatching highlights for May 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere:

Mars and Saturn tussle with the Moon, Mercury makes a brief a.m. appearance, East Coasters can see red giant star Antares emerge from behind the Moon, and the eta Aquariid meteors peak on May 6th.

0:00 Intro 

0:15 Moon & planet highlights

1:06 Moon occults Antares

1:53 eta Aquariid meteor shower

3:54 May Moon phases

NASA's Night Sky Network:

https://science.nasa.gov/skywatching/night-sky-network/

Skywatching resources from NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/skywatching

Video Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: May 1, 2024

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Tonight's Sky: May 2024 (Northern Hemisphere)

Tonight's Sky: May 2024 (Northern Hemisphere)

In May 2024, we are looking away from the crowded, dusty plane of our own galaxy toward a region where the sky is brimming with distant galaxies. Locate Virgo to find a concentration of roughly 2,000 galaxies and search for Coma Berenices to identify many more. Keep watching for space-based views of galaxies like the Sombrero Galaxy, M87, and M64.

About this Series

“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky. The series is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s Universe of Learning.

This product is based on work supported by NASA under award numbers NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University.

Video Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Duration: 5 minutes, 26 seconds

Release Date: April 22, 2024

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Wide-field View: Star Cluster NGC 6440 | James Webb Space Telescope

Wide-field View: Star Cluster NGC 6440 | James Webb Space Telescope

This image from the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope features NGC 6440, a globular cluster that resides roughly 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The object was first discovered by William Herschel in May 1786.

Globular clusters like NGC 6440 are roughly spherical, tightly packed, collections of old stars bound together by gravity. They can be found throughout galaxies, but often live on the outskirts. They hold hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that are on average about one light-year apart, but they can be as close together as the size of our Solar System. NGC 6440 is known to be a high-mass and metal-rich cluster that formed and is orbiting within the Galactic bulge. It is a dense, near-spherical region of old stars in the inner part of the Milky Way.

This image was obtained with 2023 data from Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) as part of an observation program to explore the stars in the cluster and to investigate details of the cluster’s pulsars. A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles. To us, that beam appears as a short burst or pulse as the star rotates. Pulsars spin extremely fast. Astronomers have clocked the fastest pulsars at more than 716 rotations per second, but a pulsar could theoretically rotate as fast as 1500 rotations per second before slowly losing energy or breaking apart.

The new data obtained by the science team indicate the first evidence from Webb observations of abundance variations of helium and oxygen in stars in a globular cluster. These results open the window for future, in-depth investigations of other clusters in the Galactic bulge, which were previously infeasible with other telescope facilities given the significant crowding of stars in the cluster and the strong reddening caused by interstellar dust between the cluster and Earth.

Image Description: A spherical collection of stars fills the entire view. The cluster is dominated by a concentrated group of bright white stars at the center, with several large yellow stars scattered throughout the image. Many of the stars have visible diffraction spikes. The background is black.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Freire

Acknowledgement: M. Cadelano and C. Pallanca

Release Date: May 1, 2024

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Pan over Star Cluster NGC 6440 | James Webb Space Telescope

Pan over Star Cluster NGC 6440 | James Webb Space Telescope

This image from the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope features NGC 6440, a globular cluster that resides roughly 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The object was first discovered by William Herschel in May 1786.

Globular clusters like NGC 6440 are roughly spherical, tightly packed, collections of old stars bound together by gravity. They can be found throughout galaxies, but often live on the outskirts. They hold hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that are on average about one light-year apart, but they can be as close together as the size of our Solar System. NGC 6440 is known to be a high-mass and metal-rich cluster that formed and is orbiting within the Galactic bulge. It is a dense, near-spherical region of old stars in the inner part of the Milky Way.

This image was obtained with 2023 data from Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) as part of an observation program to explore the stars in the cluster and to investigate details of the cluster’s pulsars. A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles. To us, that beam appears as a short burst or pulse as the star rotates. Pulsars spin extremely fast. Astronomers have clocked the fastest pulsars at more than 716 rotations per second, but a pulsar could theoretically rotate as fast as 1500 rotations per second before slowly losing energy or breaking apart.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Freire, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)  

Acknowledgement: M. Cadelano and C. Pallanca  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: May 1, 2024

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Star-studded Cluster NGC 6440 | James Webb Space Telescope

Star-studded Cluster NGC 6440 | James Webb Space Telescope

This image from the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope features NGC 6440, a globular cluster that resides roughly 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The object was first discovered by William Herschel in May 1786.

Globular clusters like NGC 6440 are roughly spherical, tightly packed, collections of old stars bound together by gravity. They can be found throughout galaxies, but often live on the outskirts. They hold hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that are on average about one light-year apart, but they can be as close together as the size of our Solar System. NGC 6440 is known to be a high-mass and metal-rich cluster that formed and is orbiting within the Galactic bulge. It is a dense, near-spherical region of old stars in the inner part of the Milky Way.

This image was obtained with 2023 data from Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) as part of an observation program to explore the stars in the cluster and to investigate details of the cluster’s pulsars. A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles. To us, that beam appears as a short burst or pulse as the star rotates. Pulsars spin extremely fast. Astronomers have clocked the fastest pulsars at more than 716 rotations per second, but a pulsar could theoretically rotate as fast as 1500 rotations per second before slowly losing energy or breaking apart.

The new data obtained by the science team indicate the first evidence from Webb observations of abundance variations of helium and oxygen in stars in a globular cluster. These results open the window for future, in-depth investigations of other clusters in the Galactic bulge, which were previously infeasible with other telescope facilities given the significant crowding of stars in the cluster and the strong reddening caused by interstellar dust between the cluster and Earth.

Image Description: A spherical collection of stars fills the entire view. The cluster is dominated by a concentrated group of bright white stars at the center, with several large yellow stars scattered throughout the image. Many of the stars have visible diffraction spikes. The background is black.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Freire

Acknowledgement: M. Cadelano and C. Pallanca

Release Date: May 1, 2024

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Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test: The Atlas V Rocket | United Launch Alliance

Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test: The Atlas V Rocket | United Launch Alliance

Continuing Atlas' legacy of launching humans to space, ULA is using an Atlas V rocket to launch the Crew Flight Test (CFT) Mission to the International Space Station for NASA with Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. See how the Atlas V rocket was stacked ahead of launch. Go Atlas.  Go Centaur.

For more info on Starliner, visit: boeing.com/starliner

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: 

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Video Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: April 30, 2024

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