NASA's upcoming Planetary Events and Missions

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This mission to make multiple flybys of Jupiter's satellites Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa and then to go into orbit around Ganymede.

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1. JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE)

2023 April 13

Launch of NASA CLPS lunar lander. The Peregrine Lunar Lander, carrying scientific and other payloads to the Moon.

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2. Peregrine Mission 1 (TO 2-AB)

2023 May

Mission objective is to place a lander, called Nova-C, on the crater rim of Malapert A near the south pole of the Moon.

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3. Intuitive Machines 1 (TO 2-IM)

2023 June

Launch of ISRO (India) Lunar Orbiter, Lander, and Rover to the Moon.

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4. Chandrayaan 3

2023 June-July

It makes its third Mercury flyby. Mission involves the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).

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5. Bepi-Colombo

2023 June 20

Returns to Earth with sample of asteroid Bennu. Designed to return a sample of material from near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid Bennu.

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6. OSIRIS-Rex

2023 September 24

Launch of orbiter mission to main belt asteroid 16 Psyche.

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7. Psyche

2023 October 10

It's designed to make flyby observations of eight asteroids - one main belt asteroid and seven asteroids orbiting ahead of or behind Jupiter.

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8. Lucy

2023 November 1

Launch of NASA SmallSat mission to study lunar water.

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9. Lunar Trailblazer

2023 November

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