Lucy Passes by its First Target: The Dinkinesh Asteroid
The Lucy spacecraft performed a rendezvous with asteroid Dinkinesh to test the navigation and scientific instruments on November 1, 2023
Giancarlo Albertinazzi
Space Ambassador, Terranaut, Future Spacepolitan, Writer of Becoming Spacepolitans Blog
Miura 1: Successful Maiden Launch for the First Spanish Rocket
On October 7, 2023, the Spanish company PLD Space successfully launched Miura 1, the first fully private European suborbital rocket, paving the way to Miura 5
Psyche, the launch of the new metal mission by NASA
On October 13, 2023, the NASA's Psyche spacecraft began its journey to asteroid 16 Psyche, a unique metal world in the Main Asteroid Belt
OSIRIS-REx delivered on time a gift from Asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx return capsule landed in the Utah Desert on September 24, 2023, bringing a rich sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth
Redwire’s Breakthrough: First Human Meniscus 3D-Printed in Space
Redwire successfully ran the BFF-Meniscus-2 experiment, bio-printing a human meniscus with 3D technology on the ISS, leveraging microgravity conditions