Today marks 4th full year / starts 5th year of continuous Human occupation of TSS; Shenzhou 14 three-member crew launched on this day in 2022, beginning occupation.
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1 event,Sample-return spacecraft Tianwen-2 will perform an orbit-insertion burn at asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa on Sunday, June 7, 13 months after its launch in May 2025. It is expected to begin collecting samples early next month. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317613/20260602/tianwen-2-asteroid-orbit-insertion-set-june-7-amateurs-decode-telemetry.htm Kamoʻoalewa, formally designated 2016 HO3, was discovered in April 2016 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope […] |
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After arriving at Kamo’oalewa on June 7, China asteroid sample return mission planned to collect at least 100 grams via anchoring-drilling, hover-sampling and touch-and-go techniques; scheduled to depart Apr 24, 2027 and return to Earth Nov 29, 2027. |
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JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission to flyby S-type asteroid 98943 Torifune within 1 to 10 km of the asteroid's surface at a relative velocity of approximately 5 km/s. The mission is planned to rendezvous with asteroid 1998 KY26 in 2031, after returning samples from (162173) Ryugu to Earth in 2020. |