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Jason Davis • July 17, 2019 • 3
Spare bandwidth during ground station passes has allowed flight controllers to downlink 2 new high-resolution images.
Heidi Hammel • July 15, 2019 • 2
Twenty-five years ago, multiple fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, changing the face of the planet and the course of planetary science.
Andrew Jones • July 11, 2019
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has touched down on Ryugu for a second time, bagging samples which hopefully contain material from the subsurface of the asteroid.
Jason Davis • July 11, 2019 • 4
PlanetVac, a technology that simplifies the process of collecting samples from other worlds, may fly to the Moon.
Jason Davis • July 09, 2019 • 3
Sail deployment is now scheduled for no earlier than 21 July 2019.
Sridhar Narayanan • July 08, 2019 • 3
A preview guide for India's upcoming Moon mission.
Jason Davis • July 07, 2019 • 10
Pictures taken by the spacecraft's cameras Friday evening show a crescent Earth, as LightSail 2 heads into orbital sunset.
Jason Davis • July 05, 2019
Would you like to see the latest data from The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft—possibly before flight controllers have even seen it? Now you can!
Jason Davis • July 03, 2019
The mission team is working through a 73-step checklist to check out the spacecraft’s systems and perform various tests.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 03, 2019
So many Apollo-related books have come out in the first half of 2019 that I decided to cover them in a special summer book-recommendation blog. I have 5 brand-new Apollo-related books to recommend for kids, and include others I've recommended in past years.
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