JAKARTA – 2023 will be a banner year for space missions, with NASA bringing fragments of distant asteroids back to India by landing on the Moon’s south pole. Now, the world’s space agencies and billion-dollar private companies are looking forward to a more productive year.
Some interesting missions include NASA’s return to the Moon after 40 years, Blue Origin sending an all-female crew into orbit, Britain’s first space mission, and the first phase of SpaceX’s ambitious Polaris Dawn program.
Here are some of the big space launch plans for 2024 you shouldn’t miss:
ARTEMIS II (November): NASA returns to the Moon after more than four decades. Artemis II, due in November, will break the record for the furthest distance humans have traveled from Earth. This mission will pave the way for Artemis III, which will take humans to the Moon in December 2025.
BLUE ORIGIN ALL-FEMALE CREW (Awal 2024): Blue Origin, the company led by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will make history by sending an all-female crew into orbit aboard New Shepard.
NEW GLENN (2024): Blue Origin is developing a larger rocket, the New Glenn, scheduled to fly in 2024. The rocket will carry a larger payload into low Earth orbit and will be a key part of NASA’s lunar landing mission.
GALACTIC 06 (January 2024): Virgin Galactic will launch Galactic 06 mission, carrying four paying space tourists. The company hopes that adding an extra seat will increase revenue per flight.
ALBA POLARIS (April): SpaceX will launch the Polaris Dawn mission, carrying four U.S. engineers and pilots into orbit for up to five days. This mission is part of a program that will culminate with the first launch of the most powerful rocket ever built, Starship.
GAGAGAN (Selama 2024): India will launch four Gaganyaan missions, including a three-day crewed flight to orbit. The humanoid robot Vyommitra will also be a passenger on manned and unmanned aircraft.
CHANG’E 6 (Mei): China will send the Chang’e 6 lunar exploration probe to collect soil and rock samples from the far side of the Moon and bring them back to Earth.
UK SPACE MISSION (Year 2024): Britain prepares to launch its first space mission with an all-British crew, led by Major Time Peake.
ARIANA 6 (Between June 15th and July 31st): Europe hopes the launch of the £3 billion (Rs 58.6 trillion) Ariane 6 rocket will take place after several delays.
MOMO 2 (November): India plans to launch a Mars orbiter, MOMO 2, to collect data on weather, interplanetary dust, surface geology and more.
2024 is expected to be an exciting year for space exploration with a number of spectacular missions planned.
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2024-01-03 02:05:00
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