Aiming for a comprehensive picture of the Martian climate

The "Hope Probe" of the United Arab Emirates' Mars Mission

is expected to be launched soon

and should start to orbit the Red Planet in 2021.

Link to: Emirates Mars Mission

ASTROBOTIC soon to go to the Moon

NASA's water-seeking mobile VIPER

(Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

is scheduled to be delivered to the Moon's South Pole

by ASTROBOTIC of Pittsburgh

in about three years' time.

Link to: "NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon"

The Artemis Accords: Discipline and Fair Play

Will these noble principles genuinely help nations

to behave less erratically beyond the limits of our planet

than they all too often do on Earth?

Link to: NASA - The Artemis Accords

Vaguely reminiscent of ballpoint pens?

After Douglas Adams's  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

there has now been the initial release of

 SpaceX's Starship User's Guide.

Link to: "Starship User's Guide"

May Update - New Link to: "vehicles/ starship"

Names for Asteroid Bennu's surface features

11 of Bennu's "saxa" (i.e. rocks and boulders)

have now been given mythological names

by the OSIRIS-Rex team.

Link to: NASA "First Official Names Given to Features on Asteroid Bennu"

Congratulations to Yutu-2

By January 3rd 2020 (if all goes well)

China's rover will have been operational

on the Moon for an entire year.

Link to: "China's Yutu-2 rover sets new record for longest time working on the Moon."

Goodbye Ryugu

Having successfully completed its tasks in outer space,

the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 

is on its way back a little earlier than originally scheduled.

Link to: "Japan's Hayabusa2 leaves asteroid to deliver samples to Earth in 2020"