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10 paź 2024 · NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to orbit Jupiter, and to make dozens of flybys of Europa. The spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT Oct. 14, 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
RAAN is set by varying a launch time, waiting for the earth to rotate until it is in the correct position. For missions with very specific orbits, such as rendezvousing with the International Space Station, the launch window may be a single moment in time, known as an instantaneous launch window.
To make sure the spacecraft and Mars arrive at the same place at the same time, the spacecraft must launch within a particular window of time. This window is called the “launch window” and, depending on the target, can be a few minutes or as much as a few weeks in length.
13 paź 2023 · The Psyche spacecraft is expected to arrive at the asteroid to begin science operations in 2029. Asteroid Psyche could be part of the metal -ich interior of a planetesimal, a building block of a rocky planet.
Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), [ 9 ] was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that was launched in November 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA 's Artemis program, Artemis I marked the agency's return to lunar exploration after the conclusion of the Apollo program five decades earlier.
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The launch window is a term used to describe a time period in which a particular mission must be launched. If the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with another spacecraft, a planet, or other point in space, the launch must be carefully timed so that the orbits overlap at some point in the future.
