Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-29
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There are exactly 12 days left until Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-29, which is 284 hours or 16993 minutes.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-29 will take place on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 02:00 AM.
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Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on December 24, 2026. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles. Location: Venus.
Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)
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Hayabusa2 S-Type Asteroid (98943) Torifune Flyby
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SNC-1 Dream Chaser Landing
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