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Astrophysics

The shuttle Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope at 08:57 EDT on 19 May 2009 after a successful servicing mission. More....

ESA's Planck and Herschel observatories were successfully launch from Kourou, French Guiana, at 13:12 UTC on Thursday 14 May 2009. They were released separately about 26 minutes after launch on a trajectory toward the Earth's L2 point. More....

NASA's GLAST satellite launched into orbit on 05 June 2008. More....

Heliophysics

NASA's IBEX mission, an Earth-orbiting mission designed to make observations of the solar wind's termination shock using energetic neutral atoms, was launched from a Pegasus XL rocket at 13:48 EDT on 19 October 2008. More...

Lunar and Planetary Science

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has reached the Moon and gone into orbit. The LRO and LCROSS missions launched successfully at 21:32 UT (5:32 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, June 18.

The Japanese Kaguya lunar orbiting spacecraft ended its mission at approximately 18:25 UT (2:25 p.m. EDT) today with an impact on the Moon. The impact took place at roughly 80.4 degrees east, 65.5 degrees south. The impact flash was recorded by the Anglo-Australian Telescope. For more, see the JAXA Press Release