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ESA's Hera mission, launched on October 7th, will study asteroid Dimorphos to enhance asteroid deflection strategies.

Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) successfully made a soft and precise landing on the lunar surface.

Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft completed its initial lunar flyby a few weeks after launch. 

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) recently launched its first mission to the sun, Aditya-L1. The orbiter will spend 135 days traveling to Lagrange point 1 (L1), the spot equidistant between the sun and the Earth.

South Korea launched its main satellite, NEXTSat 2, on its Nuri (KSLV-2) rocket, as well as successfully sent six other microsatellites into orbit during this launch. 

The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched its mission to explore Jupiter and three of its four moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft will perform several gravity-assisting flybys of Earth, Venus, and Earth’s moon. 

The Space Development Agency (SDA) successfully launched the first ten satellites in its Tranche 0 mission. 

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cheops (Characterizing ExOPlanet Satellite) mission has made an unexpected discovery during its exoplanetary exploration.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) recently lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying an uncrewed Orion spacecraft as part of the first leg of NASA’s Artemis mission.

Nearly a year after its launch, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART spacecraft, successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, in the first ever planetary defense test.